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Volume 59 - Issue 4 - November 2000

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History. Edited by John E. Cort. SUNY Series in Hindu Studies. Wendy Doniger, editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. viil, 264 pp. $24.95 (paper).
Cynthia Talbot
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26 March 2010, pp. 1064-1065
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Narrative Strategies: Essays on South Asian Literature and Film. Edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Theo Damsteegt. Leiden: Research School, CNWS, 1998. CNWS Publications No. 66. viii, 263 pp. $22.00 (paper).
Robert A. Hueckstedt
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26 March 2010, pp. 1065-1067
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Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. By Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. xv, 286 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Joanne Punzo Waghorne
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26 March 2010, pp. 1067-1068
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Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits. By Alf Hiltebeitel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xiv. 560 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).
Susan S. Wadley
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26 March 2010, pp. 1068-1070
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Gandhi's Religion: A Homespun Shawl. By J. T. F. Jordens. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. vill, 283 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Bradley S. Clough
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26 March 2010, pp. 1070-1071
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Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood. By Sankaran Krishna. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. xxxviii, 316 pp. $22.95 (paper).
Rajat Ganguly
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26 March 2010, pp. 1071-1073
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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India. By Purnima Mankekar. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. xiii, 429 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Phyllis Herman
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26 March 2010, pp. 1073-1074
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Gender and Politics in India. Edited by Nivedita Menon. Themes in Politics Series. General Editors Rajeev Bhargava, Partha Chatterjee. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi, 539 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
Indrani Chatterjee
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26 March 2010, pp. 1074-1076
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Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime. By Vijay Mishra. SUNY Series on the Sublime. Edited by Rob Wilson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xiii, 268 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
Steven P. Hopkins
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26 March 2010, pp. 1076-1077
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Business, Race, and Politics in British India, c. 1850–1960. By Maria Misra. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. xiv, 250 pp. $72.00 (cloth).
Leonard A. Gordon
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26 March 2010, pp. 1077-1079
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India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact of Global Proliferation. By George Perkovich. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 597 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
William L. Richter
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26 March 2010, pp. 1079-1080
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The Embodiment of Bhakti. By Karen Pechilis Prentiss. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi, 265 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Glenn Yocum
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26 March 2010, pp. 1080-1081
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Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India. By Raka Ray. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. ix, 217 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Amrita Basu
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26 March 2010, pp. 1081-1083
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Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and his Movement, 1870–1920. By Usha Sanyal. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 365 pp. $19.00 (paper).
Shahzad Bashir
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26 March 2010, pp. 1083-1084
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Creating Histories: Oral Narrative and the Politics of History-Making. By Wendy Singer. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xx, 339 pp. $32.00 (cloth).
Yasmin Saikia
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26 March 2010, pp. 1084-1085
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Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World. By David Zurick and P. P. Karan. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiv, 355 pp. $34.95 (cloth).
Nigel J. R. Allan
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26 March 2010, pp. 1085-1087
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Anatomy of a Crisis: Education, Development, and the State in Cambodia, 1953–1998. By David M. Ayers. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. xi, 272 pp. $54.00 (cloth).
Gerald W. Fry
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26 March 2010, pp. 1087-1089
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge. By Chanrithy Him. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2000. 330 pp. $23.95 (cloth).
Gerald W. Fry
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26 March 2010, pp. 1089-1091
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The Pesantren Tradition: A Study of the Role of the Kyai in the Maintenance of the Traditional Ideology of Islam in Java. By Zamakhsyari Dhofier. Tempe: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph series, 1999. xxxi, 254 pp. $19.95 (paper).
Ronald A. Lukens-Bull
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26 March 2010, pp. 1091-1092
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Prehistoric Thailand: From Early Settlement to Sukhothai. By Charles Higham and Rachanie Thorsarat. Bangkok: River Books, 1998. 236 pp. $30.00 (paper).
Joyce White
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26 March 2010, pp. 1093-1094
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Book Reviews—South Asia

Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History. Edited by John E. Cort. SUNY Series in Hindu Studies. Wendy Doniger, editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. viil, 264 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Narrative Strategies: Essays on South Asian Literature and Film. Edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Theo Damsteegt. Leiden: Research School, CNWS, 1998. CNWS Publications No. 66. viii, 263 pp. $22.00 (paper).

Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. By Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. xv, 286 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits. By Alf Hiltebeitel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xiv. 560 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Gandhi's Religion: A Homespun Shawl. By J. T. F. Jordens. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. vill, 283 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood. By Sankaran Krishna. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. xxxviii, 316 pp. $22.95 (paper).

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India. By Purnima Mankekar. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. xiii, 429 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Gender and Politics in India. Edited by Nivedita Menon. Themes in Politics Series. General Editors Rajeev Bhargava, Partha Chatterjee. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi, 539 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime. By Vijay Mishra. SUNY Series on the Sublime. Edited by Rob Wilson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xiii, 268 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Business, Race, and Politics in British India, c. 1850–1960. By Maria Misra. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. xiv, 250 pp. $72.00 (cloth).

India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact of Global Proliferation. By George Perkovich. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 597 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

The Embodiment of Bhakti. By Karen Pechilis Prentiss. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi, 265 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India. By Raka Ray. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. ix, 217 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and his Movement, 1870–1920. By Usha Sanyal. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 365 pp. $19.00 (paper).

Creating Histories: Oral Narrative and the Politics of History-Making. By Wendy Singer. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xx, 339 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World. By David Zurick and P. P. Karan. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xiv, 355 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Anatomy of a Crisis: Education, Development, and the State in Cambodia, 1953–1998. By David M. Ayers. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. xi, 272 pp. $54.00 (cloth).

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge. By Chanrithy Him. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2000. 330 pp. $23.95 (cloth).

The Pesantren Tradition: A Study of the Role of the Kyai in the Maintenance of the Traditional Ideology of Islam in Java. By Zamakhsyari Dhofier. Tempe: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph series, 1999. xxxi, 254 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Prehistoric Thailand: From Early Settlement to Sukhothai. By Charles Higham and Rachanie Thorsarat. Bangkok: River Books, 1998. 236 pp. $30.00 (paper).

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