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Volume 37 - Issue 2 - February 1978

Book Reviews—Japan

Japan's Search for Oil: A Case Study on Economic Nationalism and International Security. By Yuan-li Wu. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press (Publication 165), 1977. xii, 116 pp. Tables, Appendix, Index. $4.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Divided Korea: The Politics of Development 1945–1972. By Joungwon A. Kim. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. xii, 471 pp. $8.50

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Remembered Village. By M. N. Srinivas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xviii, 356 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Appendixes, Glossary, Index. $14.00

The Great Universe of Kota: Stress, Change and Mental Disorder in an Indian Village. By G. M. Carstairs and R. L. Kapur. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. 176 pp. Map, Tables, Appendixes, References, Index. $12.50

Family and Social Change in Modern India. Edited by Giri Raj Gupta. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press and New Delhi: Vikas (Main Currents in Indian Sociology II), 1971 [sic], xxxv, 263 pp. Index. $11.75

East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. By P.J. Marshall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. ix, 284 pp. Maps, Tables, References, Index. $16.25

L'Inde au XXe siècle. By Jacques Pouchepadass. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (Collection SUP, L'Historien 21), 1975. 214 pp. Map, Bibliography. FF 35.00

The Politics of South India, 1920–1937. By Christopher John Baker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge South Asian Studies 17), 1976. xxiii, 363 pp. Maps, Tables, Notes, Biographical Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $28.50

The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Volume V: The Simla Conference, 1 September 1944–28 July 1945. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1974. xcii, 1346 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Indexes, Map. £17.50

Patterns and Trends in Indian Politics: An Ecological Analysis of Aggregate Data on Society and Elections. By Biplab Dasgupta and W. H. Morris-Jones. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1976. xii, 364 pp. Tables, Appendix, Index. Rs. 65.00

South Asian Archaeology 1973. Edited by J. E. Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw and J. J. M. Ubaghs. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. xi, 187 pp. Photographs, Maps, Figures, Tables, Notes, Index. Gld. 142

The Relation between Tamil and Classical Sanskrit Literature. By George Luzerne Hart. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz (A History of Indian Literature, Vol. X, Fasc. 2, pp. 313–52), 1976. 40 pp. Index, n.p.l.

Bengali Literature. By Dusan Zbavitel. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz (A History of Indian Literature, Vol. IX, Fasc. 3, pp. 119–307), 1976. 189 pp. Index, n.p.l.

A Season on the Earth: Selected Poems of Nirala. Translated by David Rubin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. 152 pp. Notes. $12.50 (cloth); $4.00 (paper).

The Vīsaḷadevarāsa: A Restoration of the Text. By John D. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 26), 1976. viii, 335 pp. Glossary, Index. $32.50

Gods, Priests, and Warriors: The Bhrgus of the Mahābhārata. By Robert P. Goldman. New York: Columbia University Press (Studies in Oriental Culture No. 12), 1977. xii, 195 pp. Bibliography, Index. $9.00

Rāma and the Bards: Epic Memory in the Rāmāyaṇa. By Robert Antoine. Calcutta: A Writer's Workshop Greybird Book, 1975. 114 pp. Rs. 40.00 (cloth); Rs. 15.00 (paper). (Dist. by InterCulture Associates: $8.00 [cloth]; $5.00 [paper]).

The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism. By Agehananda Bharati. Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson, 1976. 254 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $11.95 (cloth); $4.95 (paper).

The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855–1911. Texts by Clark Worswick and Ainslie Embree. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1976. 149 pp. Plates, Further Reading. $19.95

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Volume 37 - Issue 2 - February 1978

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia