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Volume 55 - November 1996

Book Reviews—South Asia

Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action. By Dennis Dalton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xii, 279 pp. $15.50 (paper). - The Penguin Gandhi Reader. Edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1993. xxi, 295 pp. $10.95 (paper).

Credit, Markets, and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India. Edited by Sugata Bose. Themes in Indian History. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 333 pp. $19.95 (cloth).

The Āśrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution. By Patrick Olivelle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xxii, 274 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Women and Religion in India: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in English, 1975–92. By Nancy Auer Falk. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1994. xlvi, 295 pp. $30.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).

Wage Hunters and Gatherers: Search for Work in the Urban and Rural Economy of Southern Gujarat. By Jan Breman. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xi, 422 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Edited by Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994. xxvii, 196 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women. Edited by Bharati Ray. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii, 294 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations. By Reginald A. Ray. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii, 508 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Mahatma Gandhi: A Selected Bibliography. Bibliographies of World Leaders, Number 2. By April Carter. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1995. viii, 169 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932–1947. By Joya Chatterji. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii, 303 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940. By Rajnarayan Chandavarkar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii, 468 pp. $69.95 (cloth).

A Historical Atlas of South Asia. Edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 (second impression), xxxix, 376 pp.; 150 pp. of maps and plates. $250.00 (cloth).

J. R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka; A Political Biography. Vol. 2: From 1956 to his Retirement. By K. M. de Silva and Howard Wriggins. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xiv, 754 pp. $38.00 (cloth).

Ghalib 1797–1869: Life and Letters. By Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. 404 pp. $12.95 (paper).

The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India. By Sudhir Chandra. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. xi, 192 pp. $19.95 (cloth).

Bengal Nights: A Novel. By Mircea Eliade. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 176 pp. $9.95 (paper). - It Does Not Die: A Romance. By Maitreyi Devi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 264 pp. $10.95 (paper).

Classifying the Universe: The Ancient Indian Varṇa System and the Origins of Caste. By Brian K. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xv, 408 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Atlas and Survey of South Asian History. By Karl J. Schmidt. Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. xvi, 168 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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