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Volume 58 - November 1999

Book Reviews—South Asia

Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India. By Parama Roy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 236 pp. $16.95 (paper).

The Essential Writings of Sri Aurobindo. Edited by Peter Heehs. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxx, 388 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Colonial Political Economy: Recruitment and Underdevelopment in the Punjab. By Mustapha Kamal Pasha. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxii, 300 pp. $40.00.

Akbar and His India. Edited by Irfan Habib. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. ix, 316 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India. By Christophe Jaffrelot. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xxiii, 592 pp.

Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891—1970. By Sumathi Ramaswamy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxiii, 326 pp. $20.00 (paper).

Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural India. By Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery. Contemporary Asia Series, number 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 278 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).

Taming the Waters: The Political Economy of Large Dams in India. By Satyajit Singh. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 270 pp. $23.95 (cloth).

Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Edited Debra Skinner, Alfred PachIII and Dorothy Holland. Afterword by Robert I. Levy. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998. xii, 342 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity—India, 1880–1980. By Jon Lang, Madhavi Desai, and Miki Desai. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxi, 347 pp. $115.00 (cloth).

Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Diaspora. By Aparna Rayaprol. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. 165 pp. $19.95 (cloth).

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India. The Bengal Jute Industry. By Samita Sen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii, 265 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Development, Ethnicity and Human Rights in South Asia. By Ross Mallick. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998. 375 pp. $44.00.

White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India. By Peter Stanley. New York: New York University Press, 1998. xiv, 314 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Whose Interests are Supreme? Organizational Politics in the Civil Courts in India. By Robert S. Moog. Association for Asian Studies monograph, number 54. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1997. xii, 217 pp. $33.00 (cloth); $26.50 (member price).

Indian Society through Personal Writings. By M. N. Srinivas. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 (First published 1996). xi, 245 pp. $13.95 (paper). - Village, Caste, Gender and Method. By M. N. Srinivas. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 (First published 1996). xvii, 244 pp. $13.95 (paper).

Dattātreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatāra: A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-Faceted Hindu Deity. By Antonio Rigopoulos. SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Edited by Harold Coward. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xvi, 342 pp.

Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Cultures of Empire. By Gordon T. Stewart. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. xiv, 258 pp. $79.95 (cloth).

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