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Volume 121 - Issue 2 - April 1989

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Yantracintāmaṇi of Dāmodara. Critically edited by Hans-Georg Türstig. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 121.) pp. 171, 79 drawings. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1988. DM 46.

Braj: centre of Krishna pilgrimage. By A. W. Entwistle. (Groningen Oriental Studies, Vol. III.) pp. xviii, 554, front., 29 pl., 3 maps (in end pocket). Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 1987.

The Cult of Draupadī. 1. Mythologies: from Gingee to Kurukṣetra. By Alf Hiltebeitel. p. xxvii, 487, 34 illus., 5 maps. Chicago and London, Chicago University Press, 1988. £19.95.

Advaitāmoda by Vāsudevaśāstri Abhyankar. a study of Advaita and Viśiṣṭāvaita. Translated with a commentary by Michael Comans, foreword by J. W. de Jong. (Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series, No. 80.) pp. lvii, 623. Delhi, Sri Satguru Publications, 1988. Rs. 300.

Atmaswarupam. one's own real nature. By SriAdwayananda (SriK. Padmanabha Menon) pp. 59. Austin, Texas, Advaita Publishers and Chengannur, Kerala, Sri Vidya Samiti, 1988.

The New Cambridge History of India II. 2. Bengal: the British bridgehead. Eastern India 1740–1828. By P. J. Marshall, pp. xv, 195, front, 2 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1987. £17.50.

The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the discovery of India's past, 1784–1838. By O. P. Kejariwal. pp. xiv, 293, 1 pl., map. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1988. £12.95.

Dacca: a study in urban history and development. By Sharif Uddin Ahmed. (London Studies on South Asia, 4.) pp. xii, 266, 8 pl., 4 maps. London, Curzon Press, 1986. £12.50.

Crime, justice and society in colonial Sri Lanka. By John D. Rogers. (London Studies on South Asia, No. 5.) pp. x, 271, 7 maps. Riverdale, Maryland, The Riverdale Company; London, The Curzon Press, 1987. £14.50.

Ethnicity, nationalism and the Pakhtuns: the independence movement in India's North-West Frontier Province. By Stephen Rittenberg. pp. xii, 286, 2 maps. Durham, N.C., Carolina Academic Press, 1988. US $27.75.

The Irulas of the Blue Mountains. By K. V. Zvelebil. (Foreign and Comparative Studies/South Asian Series, No. 13.) pp. xx. 186, front, 31 illus., 2 maps. Syracuse, NY, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1988. US $15.50.

A General guide to the india Office Records. By Martin Moir. pp. xvi, 331, front. London, The British Library, 1988. £35.00.

The South Asia and Burma retrospective bibliography (sabreb). Stage 1: 1556–1800. by Graham Shaw. pp. x, 554. London, The British Library, 1987. £50.00.

Music of Afghanistan: professional musicians in the city of Herat. by John Baily. (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology.) pp. xiv, 183, 16 illus., 3 maps and cassette tape. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1988. £32.50.

‘Regent of the Sea’: Cannanore's response to Portuguese expansion, 1507–1528. by Geneviève Bouchon, translated by Louise Shackley. (French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society II.) pp. xix, 254, 5 maps, Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1988. First pub. in French, 1975. £12.50.

Dutch merchants and mariners in Asia, 1602–1795. by C. R. Boxer. (Collected Studies Series CS 284.) pp. viii, 344, 34 illus., 3 maps. London, Variorum Reprints, 1988. £32.00.

Treasures from the National Museum, Bangkok. Selected by the National Museum Volunteers, pp. 99, 157 colour photographs, map. Bangkok, National Museum Volunteers, distributed by D. D. Books, Bangkok, 1987. Baht 330 (cloth), Baht 220 (paperback).

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