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Volume 4 - Issue 1 - April 1994

Book Review

Eternal garden: mysticism, history, and politics at a South Asian Sufi center. By Carl W. Ernst, foreword by Annemarie Schimmel. (SUNY Series in Muslim Spirituality in South Asia.) pp. xxxi, 381, 17 figs., 5 maps. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1992. US $19.95 (paperback).

Islam, politics and society in South Asia. Edited by André Wink. (Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Venice, 1988, 5). pp. viii, 189. New Delhi, Manohar, 1991. Rs. 200.

Collected papers. Vols I and II. By K. R. Norman, pp. xvi, 271; xvi, 276. Oxford, The Pali Text Society, 1990 and 1991. £17.25 each.

The Legend and cult of Upagupta: Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia. By John S. Strong, pp. xviii, 390, 21 illus. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1992. US $45.00, £32–50.

The Buddhist path to Awakening. A study of the Bodhi-Pakkhiyā Dhammā. By R. M. L. Gethin. (Brill's Indological Library, Vol. 7.) pp. xii, 382. Leiden etc., E.J. Brill, 1992. Dfl. 195, US $111.50.

Doctrine and argument in Indian philosophy. By Ninian Smart. (Indian Thought, Vol. 4.) pp. ix, 277. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1992. Revised edition, first pub. 1964. Dfl. 80, US $45.75.

The cult of Draupadī. 2. On Hindu ritual and the goddess. By Alf Hiltebeitel. pp. xxi, 533, 38 photographs, 15 figs., 6 maps. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1991. £59.95 (cloth), £21.95 (paperback).

Muslims and missionaries in pre-Mutiny India. By Avril A. Powell. (London Studies on South Asia, No. 7). pp. ix, 339, map. Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1993. £35.00.

Broken promises: popular protest, Indian nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar 1935–1946. By Vinita Damodaran. pp. xii, 398, 5 maps. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. Rs 500, £18.95.

Alien homage: Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore. By E. P. Thompson, with an appendix on Edward Thompson's “ Notebook of conversations with Rabindranath” By Uma Das Gupta. pp. ix, 175, 1 facsimile. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1993. £8.95.

Nagaur: Sultanate and early Mughal history and architecture of the district of Nagaur, India. By Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy. (Royal Asiatic Society Monographs, Vol. XXVIII.) pp. 192, 56 pl., 72 figs. London, The Royal Asiatic Society, 1993. £40.00.

The new Cambridge history of India. I. 4. Architecture of Mughal India. By Catherine B. Asher. pp. xxxii, 368, 226 illus., map. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. £45.00.

Company paintings: Indian paintings of the British period. By Mildred Archer, assisted by Graham Parlett. pp. 240, 155 col. illus., 5 bl. & wh. illus., map. London, Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, 1992., £25.00.

Music and musical thought in early India. By Lewis Rowell. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) pp. xvii, 409, front. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1992. £47.25 (cloth), £19.25 (paperback).

Earth to heaven: the royal animal-shaped weights of the Burmese empires. By Donald and Joan Gear. pp. xvii, 299, 69 photos, 130 drawings, 4 maps. Harrow, Twinstar Ltd., 1992. £38.00.

Burmese Puppets. By Noel F. Singer. (Images of Asia.) pp. xii, 98, 20 col. illus., 25 bl. and wh. illus., map on end papers. Singapore etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. £9.95.

Javanese shadow puppets. By Ward Keeler. (Images of Asia.) pp. vii, 72, 16 col. illus., 20 bl. and wh. illus., map on end papers. Singapore etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. £9.95.

Looking in odd mirrors: the Java Sea. Edited by V. J. H. Houben, H. M. J. Maier and W. van der Molen. (Semaian 5.) pp. x, 326. Leiden, Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1992. Dfl. 40.

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