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Volume 38 - Issue 4 - August 1979

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Sikhs: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. By W. Owen Cole and Piara Singh Sambhi. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Library of Beliefs and Practices, 1978. xxviii, 210 pp. Primary Sources and Additional Bibliography. $16.50 (cloth); $8.50 (paper).

The Inner World: A Psycho-analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India. By Sudhir Kakar. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1978. 188 pp. Notes and References, Bibliography, Index. $9.50.

Ethnic Plurality in India. By R. A. Schermerhorn. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1978. xii, 369 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Appendix. $12.95 (cloth); $6.45 (paper).

A Particular Account of the European Military Adventurers of Hindustan from 1784 to 1803. By Herbert Compton. With an introduction by John Pemble. Karachi and New York: Oxford University Press (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints), 1976. xvi, 419 pp. $20.50.

India in 1857–59: A Study in the Role of the Sikhs in the People's Uprising. By Dolores Domin. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (Studies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Vol. 17), 1977. x, 375 pp. Notes, Map, Appendix, References, Bibliography, Index. N.p.l.

Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India. By David Lelyveld. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xxvi, 380 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $25.00.

Hindu-Muslim Relations in British India: A Study of Controversy, Conflict, and Communal Movements in Northern India, 1923–1928. By G. R. Thursby. Leiden: E. J. Brill, Studies in the History of Religions (Supplements to Numen) No. 25, 1975. Bibliography, Index. N.p.l.

Indira Gandhi's India: A Political System Reappraised. Edited by Henry Hart. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1976. xii, 313 pp. Index. $15.00 (cloth); $7.50 (paper).

Indian Foreign Policy: The Nehru Years. Edited by B. R. Nanda. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976. viii, 279 pp. Notes, Index. $9.95.

Pursuit of National Interests Through Neutralism: India's Foreign Policy in the Nehru Era. By Sauripada Bhattacharya. Calcutta: Firma K.L.M., 1978. xvi, 280 pp. Notes, Tables, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 60.

The Defence of India: A Budgetary Perspective of Strategy and Politics. By Raju G. C. Thomas. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1978. viii, 245 pp. Index. $12.50.

Economic Development as an Adaptive Process: The Green Revolution in the Indian Punjab. By Richard H. Day and Inderjit Singh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. x, 326 pp. Notes, Appendixes, Figures, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $24.95.

Building Scientific Institutions in India: Saha and Bhabha. By Roberts S. Anderson. Montreal: McGill University Centre for Developing-Area Studies (Occasional Paper Series No. 11), 1975. x, 121 pp. Appendix, Map. N.p.l.

Second Maharashtra By 2005: A Study in Futurology. By Tata Economic Consultancy Services. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1977. xiv, 527 pp. Tables, Notes, Graphs. Rs. 100.

Pakistan in a Changing World: Essays in Honour of K. Sarwar Hasan. Edited by Masuma Hasan. Karachi: Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, 1978. x, 258 pp. Notes, Contributors, Glossary, Index, Maps. $12.00.

The United Nations in Bangladesh. By Thomas W. Oliver. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xix, 231 pp. Map, Notes, Chronology, Select Bibliography, Index. $16.00.

Nepali Politics: Retrospect and Prospect. By Rishikesh Shaha. Second revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. xiv, 291 pp. Notes and References, Tables, Bibliography, Appendixes, Index. Rs. 60.; $11.50.

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