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Volume 92 - Issue 1-2 - April 1960

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Conquest of Violence—the Gandhian Philosophy of Conquest. By Joan V. Bondurant. pp. xv + 269. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1958. 32s. 6d.

The Culture and Art of India. By Radhakamal Mukerjee. pp. 447 and 54 plates. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London, 1959. 50s.

The Oxford History of India. By the late Vincent A. Smith. Edited by Percival Spear, pp. 898. Third Edition. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1958. Price 42s.

Yoga: Immortality and Freedom. By Mircea Eliade. Td. from the French by Willard R. Trask. pp. xii + 529. Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., London, 1958.

The Religion of India. The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism. By Max Weber, pp. 392. The Free Press, Clencoe, Illinois, 1958.

Two Prakrit Versions of the Maṇipati-carita. Edited by R. Williams. pp. xii + 370. Published for the Royal Asiatic Society by Luzac and Co., Ltd., London, 1959. (James G. Forlong Fund Vol. XXVI.)

Jainism in South India and some Jaina Epigraphs. By P. B. Desai. (Jīvarāja Jaina Granthamālā, No. 6). pp. xiv, 454 plates. Jaina Saṃskṛti Saṃrakṣaka Saṅgha, Sholapur. Rs. 16.

Political Leadership among Swat Pathans. By Fredrik Barth. pp. 143. The Athlone Press, University of London. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 19. 1959. 25s.

Four Studies in the Language of the Veda. By J. Gonda. pp. 194. Mouton and Co., The Hague, 1959.

Der Sinn des Dramas “das Siegel und Rākshasa” (Mudrārākshasa). By Walter Ruben. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung, Veröffentlichung nr. 31. pp. 211. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1956. DM. 27.

Kama Kala, Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of Hindu Erotic Sculpture. By Mulk Raj Anand. pp. 45 + 59 plates. Geneva, Nagel, 1958. £7 7s.

Caryāgīti-Koṣa or Buddhist Siddhas. By Probodh Chandra Bagchi and Śānti Bhikṣu Śāstri. pp. xlii, 215. Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, 1956. Rs. 15.

The Wheel of Life. By J. Blofeld. pp. 263, 24 illustrations. Rider and Co., London, 1959. 25s.

Ratnakīrtinibandhavālī. Edited by A. Thakur. Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series, vol. 3. pp. 36 + 142. K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patnam1957. Rs. 4s.

Das Problem der Islamischen Kulturgeschichte. By Jörg Kraemer. pp. 69. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1959.

Avicenna's De Anima. The Psychological Part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by F. Rahman. pp. xii, 299. (University of Durham Publications) O.U.P., 1959. s. 63.

Le Statut Légal des Non-Musulmans en Pays d'Islam. By A. Fattal. pp. 394. Beirut, Librairie Orientale, 1958.

Le Minaret de Djam. La découverte de la capitale des Sultans Ghorides (XIIe–XIIIe siècles). Par Andre Maricq et Gaston Wiet. (Mémoires de la Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan, Tome XVI). pp. 91, 1 + 16 plates, 2 maps. Paris, Klincksieck, 1959.

Les Peintures des Manuscripts Safavis de 1502 à, 1587. By Ivan Stchoukine. (Institut français d'archéologie de Beyrouth: Bibliotheque archéologique et historique. Tome LXVII.) Paris, Geuthner, 1959.

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