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Volume 40 - Issue 4 - August 1981

Book Reviews—South Asia

Nepali Visions, Nepali Dreams: The Poetry of Laxmiprasad Devkota. By David Rubin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 159 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography. $17.50 (cloth).

An Exploration of India: Geographical Perspectives on Society and Culture. Edited by David E. Sopher. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1980. 334 pp. Author Index, General Index. $19.50.

Political Identity in South Asia. Edited by David Taylor and Malcolm Yapp. London: Curzon Press; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies: Collected Papers on South Asia, No. 2), 1979. xii, 266 pp. $10.50.

India's Economic Problems: An Analytical Approach. Edited by J. S. Uppal. 2nd ed.New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. xiv, 409 pp. Index. $19.95.

Early Buddhist Philosophy in the Light of the Four Noble Truths. By Alfonso Verdu. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979. viii, 242 pp. Glossary, Index. $9.25 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Traditional Balinese Paintings: A Selection from the Forge Collection of the Australian Museum. By Anthony Forge. Sydney: Australian Museum, 1978. 95 pp. Index of Names, Glossary, Illustrations. N.p.

Austronesian Studies: Papers from the Second Eastern Conference on Austronesian Languages. Edited by Paz Buenaventura Naylor. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 15), 1979. xi, 214 pp. Appendix. N.p.

Taman Budiman: Memoirs of an Unorthodox Civil Servant. By Tan Sri Dato Mubin Sheppard. Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann, 1979. xii, 278 pp. Glossary, Index. $11.95 (paper).

Protein from the Sea: Technological Change in Philippine Capture Fisheries. By Alexander Spoehr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology (Ethnology Monographs, 3), 1980. xi, 224 pp. Bibliography, Illustrations, Tables. $9.50 (paper).

The Making of a Bureaucratic Elite: The Colonial Transformation of the Javanese Priyayi. By Heather Sutherland. Singapore: Heinemann (Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publications Series, No. 2), 1979. xx, 182 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $14.95 (paper).

Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism. By Thak Chaloemtiarana. Bangkok: Social Science Association of Thailand and Thai Khadi Institute, Thammasat University, 1979. xxx, 358 pp. Appendix. N.p.

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Prescott Clarke (1935–1980)

Holmes Hinkley Welch (1924–1981)

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Volume 40 - Issue 4 - August 1981

Book Reviews—South Asia

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Obituaries

Errata

Annual Volume Contents

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