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Nepali visions, Nepali dreams: the poetry of Laxmiprasad Devkota. With translations of selected poems by David Rubin. (Modern Asian Literature Series; UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Nepalese Series.) pp. xiii, 170. New York, Columbia University Press, 1980.

The journals of Honoria Lawrence: India observed 1837–1854. Edited by John Lawrence and Audrey Woodiwiss. pp. 253, 8 plates. London, etc.: Hodder and Stoughton, [1980]. £10.95.

Caste and Christianity: attitudes and policies on caste of Anglo-Saxon Protestant missions in India. By Duncan B. Forrester. (London Studies on South Asia, No. 1.) pp. viii, 227. London and Dublin, Curzon Press; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1980. £5.50.

Bhutan: the early history of a Himalayan kingdom. By Michael Aris. (Central Asian Studies.) pp. [ii], xxxvi, 345. Warminster, Aris and Phillips Ltd., [C1979]. £12. [Optional microfiche supplement of 4 specimen texts. £4.50.]

Gateway to wisdom. By John Blofeld. pp. 214. London, Allen and Unwin, 1980. £6.95.

Naitre renonçant: une caste de Sannyāsi villageois au Népal central. By Véronique Bouillier. pp. 264. Nanterre, Laboratoire d'Ethnologie, 1979.

Sri Lanka and South-East Asia: political, religious, and cultural relations from a.d.c. 1000 to c. 1500. By W. M. Sirisena. pp. xiv, 186, 8 pl., map. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1978. Guilders 68.

Perak, the abode of grace: a study of an eighteenth-century Malay state. By Barbara Watson Andaya. (East Asian Historical Monographs.) pp. xviii, 444. Kuala Lumpur, etc., Oxford University Press, 1979. £14.95.

François Valentijn's description of Ceylon. Translated and edited By Sinnappah Arasaratnam. (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, no. 149.) pp. xv, 395, front., 8 pl., 5 maps. London, Hakluyt Society, 1978. £10.

Caste and family in the politics of the Sinhalese, 1947–1976. By Janice Jiggins. pp. xiii, 189. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979.

The making of modern South-East Asia. Vol. II. The Western impact: economic and social change. By D. J. M. Tate. pp. xiii, 618. Kuala Lumpur, etc., Oxford University Press, 1979. £21.95.

A study of the Arabic texts containing material on South-East Asia. By G. R. Tibbetts. (Oriental Translation Fund, New Series, XLIV.) pp. xi, 294, 7 maps [in end-pocket]. Leiden and London, E. J. Brill for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1979. Guilders 84.

Batek Negrito religion: The world-view and rituals of a hunting and gathering People of peninsular Malaysia. By Kirk Endicott. pp. xv, 234, 4 pl. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979. £12.

Art. Ritual. and society in Indonesia. Edited by Edward M. Bruner and Judith O. Becker. (Papers in International Studies. Southeast Asia Series, No. 53.) pp. vii, 189. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Program, 1979. £7.80.

Captain Cook's South Sea Island vocabularies. Edited By Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill. pp. xv, 287. London, the author, 1979.

Nan-Fang ts'ao-mu chuang: a fourth century flora of Southeast Asia. Introduction, translation, commentaries. By Hui-Lin Li. pp. x, 168. Hong Kong, Chinese University Press, [C1979]. (Distributed in G.B. by University of Washington Press. $9.)

Li Ho. By Kuo-ch'ing Tu. (Twayne's World Authors Series, 537.) pp. 165. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1979. $13.95.

Shang Civilization. By Kwang-chih Chang, pp. xvii, 417. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1980. £18.90.

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