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Volume 52 - February 1993

Book Reviews—Japan

Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan. By Cecilia Segawa Seigle. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xiv, 310 pp. $29.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Speaking of Basava: Lingayat Religion and Culture in South Asia. By K. Ishwaran. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. viii, 263 pp. $37.50.

Mad Tales from the Raj: The European Insane in British India, 1800–1858. By Waltraud Ernst. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xi, 195 pp. $74.00.

Book Reviews—Japan

Patriots and Redeemers in Japan, Motives in the Meiji Restoration. By George M. Wilson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xiii, 201 pp. $14.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India. By Kathryn Hansen. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press, 1992. xvii, 367 pp. $42.50.

Electoral Allegiance in Sri Lanka. Cambridge South Asian Studies Series, No. 48. By Dilesh Jayanntha. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. x, 220 pp. $59.95.

Domains of Fear and Desire: Urdu Stories. Edited by Muhammad Umar Memon. Translated by M. U. Memon, Faruq Hassan, C. M. Naim, and others. Toronto: tsar Publications, 1992. vii, 264 pp. $15.95.

Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852–1928. By Douglas E. Haynes. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press, 1991. xi, 363 pp. $42.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

Japanese Policymaking: The Politics Behind Politics—Informal Mechanisms and the Making of China Policy. By Quansheng Zhao. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1993. xx, 230 pp. $49.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling. By Margaret A. Mills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xi, 388 pp.

Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal. By Riaz M. Khan. An Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Book. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. ix, 402 pp. $49.95.

Priesthood in Ancient India: A Study of the Maitravāruṇa Priest. By Christopher Z. Minkowski. Vienna: Sammlung De Nobili, 1992. 272 pp.

Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1839. By Dirk H. A. Kolff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi, 217 pp. $49.50.

Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia. By Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press, 1992. x, 310 pp. $40.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

Structural Adjustment in a Newly Industrializing Country: The Korean Experience. Edited by Vittorio Corbo and Sang-Mok Suh. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. x, 360 pp. $39.95.

Kinnichisei to Manshu kōnichi sensō [Kim Il Sung and the Manchurian Anti-Japanese War]. By Wada Haruki. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1992. 414 pp. ¥2,900.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Political Mercenaries and Citizen Soldiers: A Profile of North Indian Party Activists. By Yogendra K. Malik and Jesse F. Marquette. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1990. xiv, 213 pp. Rs. 200.

Himalayan Voices: An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature. Translated and edited by Michael James Hutt. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press,1991. xvii, 333 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

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