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Volume 40 - Issue 4 - August 1981

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Myth of Return: Pakistanis in Britain. By Muhammad Anwar. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1979. x, 278 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $29.95.

The Nepalese Pagoda: Origins and Style. By Ronald M. Bernier. New Delhi: S. Chang, 1979. xx, 219 pp. Plates, Bibliography. Rs 125.

“If I am Assassinated…” By Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing, 1979. xxxvi, 240 pp. Index. $12.50. (Distributed in the United States by Advent Books, New York, N.Y.)

India: Population, Economy, Society. By R. H. Cassen. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1978. xiv, 419 pp. Notes, Bibliographies, Index. $29.50.

The Andhra Cyclone of 1977: Individual and Institutional Responses to Mass Death. By Stephen P. Cohen and C. V. Raghavulu. New Delhi, India: Vikas Publishing, 1980. 118 pp. Appendixes, Index. $15 (cloth).

Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat: c. 1700–1750. By Ashin Das Gupta. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Band 40), 1979. x, 307 pp. Appendixes, Bibliographic Note, Index. DM 44.

Nuristan. By Lennart Edelberg and Schuyler Jones. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1979. 186 pp. Itineraries, Bibliography, Index. DM 140.

The Bohras. By Ali Engineer. Delhi: Vikas Publishing, 1980. xi, 332 pp. Appendixes, Index. $18.95. (Distributed in the U.S. by Advent Books, New York, N.Y.)

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography. Vol. 2: 1947–1956. By Sarvepalli Gopal. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. 346 pp. Biographical Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $20.

Muslims and the Congress: Select Correspondence of Dr. M. A. Ansari, 1912–1935. Edited by Mushirul Hasan. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1979. xxxv, 335 pp. Chronology, Glossary, Index. $22.

The Caste Hierarchy and the State in Nepal: A Study of the Muluki Ain in 1854. By András Höfer. Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner (Khumbu Himal: Ergebnisse des Forschungsunternehmens Nepal Himalaya, Band 13/2), 1979. 215 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Indexes. N.p.

The Permanent Settlement in Bengal: A Study of Its Operation, 1790–1819. By Sirajul Islam. Dacca: Bangla Academy, 1979. xv, 288 pp. Glossary, Appendixes, Select Bibliography, Index. Tk. 25.

Gautama: The Nyāya Philosophy. By N. S. Junankar. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978. xli, 664 pp. Appendix, Selective Bibliography, General Index. Rs. 130.

The Age of Partnership: Europeans in Asia Before Dominion. Edited by Blair B. Kling and M. N. Pearson. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1979. xii, 250 pp. List of Contributors. $12.50.

Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in Mahāyāna Tradition. By Diana Y. Paul, with contributions by Frances Wilson. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press/Lancaster-Miller, Inc., 1979. xxii, 333 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $19.

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