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Volume 44 - February 1985

Book Reviews—South Asia

Politics in Pakistan: The Struggle for Legitimacy. By Louis D. Hayes. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1984. 203 pp. Bibliography, Index. $19 (paper).

Gandhian Thought and Indo-Anglian Novelists. By Ramā Jha. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1983. 209 pp. Bibliography. Index. $18.50.

Nepali Aama: Portrait of a Nepalese Hill Woman. By Broughton Coburn. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Ross Erikson, 1982. 165 pp. Illustrations. $9.95.

India Within the Ganges. By Susan Gole. New Delhi: Jayaprints, 1983. 283 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Bibliography, Indices. $34.

A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. By Bruce Kapferer. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1983. xvii, 293 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Subject Index, Author Index. $32.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).

Affinity as Value: Marriage Alliance in South India, with Comparative Essays on Australia. By Louis Dumont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. x, 230 pp. Preface, Diagrams, Bibliography, Index. $35.

The Righteous Demon: A Study of Bali. By Clifford Hospital. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. ix, 294 pp. Appendixes, Illustrations, Bibliography, Glossary, and Index. $32 (U.S. $25.95).

Krishna, The Butter Thief. By John Stratton Hawley. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. xxi, 415pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Glossary, Index. $40.

A Bibliography of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Vols. 4 and 5. By H. A. I. Goonetileke. Zug, Switzerland: 1983. Vol. 4: xlv, 562 pp.; vol. 5: vii, [563]-952, ii pp. (Available from International Publications Service, 114 E. 32nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10016).

Studies in the Archaeology and Paleoanthropology of South Asia. Edited by Kenneth A. R. Kennedy and Gregory L. Possehl. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1984. viii, 144 pp. Figures, Tables, Index. $22.

Islamic Society and Culture: Essays in Honour of Professor Aziz Ahmad. Edited by Milton Israel and N. K. Wagle. Delhi: Manohar, 1983. x, 383 pp. $32.

Caste: The Emergence of the South Asian Social System. By Morton Klass. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1980. xi, 212 pp. Bibliography, Index. $12.50 (paper).

Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia. By Ronald J. Herring. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983. xi, 314 pp. Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Index.

Interest Groups and Development: Business and Politics in Pakistan. By Stanley A. Kochanek. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. xv, 393 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Notes and References, Index. Rs. 110; $19.95.

Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. Edited by Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. x, 314 pp. Tables, Index, Glossary. $27.50.

Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam. Edited by Barbara Daly Metcalf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xv, 389 pp. Glossary of Selected Terms, Index. $36.50.

Songs of Nepal: An Anthology of Nevar Folksongs and Hymns. By Siegfried Lienhard. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. (Asian Studies at Hawaii, no. 30.) vii, 221 pp. Appendixes, Select Bibliography. $17 (paper).

Art of Osian Temples. By Asha Kalia. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1983. x, 179 pp. Plates, List of Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $42.50.

Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion. Edited by George Michell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. xvii, 254 pp. 803 Illustrations, Maps, Bibliographies. List of Principal Temples and Index. $85.

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