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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
ISSN: 1356-1863

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Volume 117 - April 1985

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The Konds: human sacrifice and religious change. By Barbara M. Boal. pp. xiv, 294, 33 illustrations, 5 Maps. Warminster, Wilts. Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1982. £16.00.

Jinnah of Pakistan. By Stanley Wolpert. pp. xii, 421, 2 maps, 19 pl. New York etc., Oxford University Press, 1984. $24.95 (£22.50).

Stones of empire: the buildings of the Raj. By Jan Morris, photographs and captions by Simon Winchester, pp. vi, 234 pp. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1983. £15.00

Setting the East ablaze; Lenin's dream of an empire in Asia. By Peter Hopkirk. pp. 252, 27 pl., 2 maps. London, John Murray, 1984. £10.95.

Die politische Stellung der Sikhs innerhalb der Indischen Nationalbewegung 1935–1947. By Christine Effenberg. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Band 94.) pp [ii], 232. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984. DM 44.

The Buddhist philosophy of thought. By Alexander Piatigorsky. pp. xii, 227. London and Dublin, Curzon Press. Totowa, N.J., Barnes and Noble Books, 1984. £9.50

Canal Irrigation in British India: perspectives on technological change in a peasant economy. By Ian Stone. (Cambridge South Asian Studies.) pp. xiv, 375, p pl., 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984, £30.00.

The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: an anthropological and historical study. By Michael Carrithers. pp. xii, 306, 14 plates. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1983. £17.00

Ladakh: crossroads of high asia. By Janet Rizvi. pp. xii, 224, 32 plates, map (on endpapers). Delhi etc., Oxford Universisty Press, 1983. Rs. 140. £15.00

The Assamese: religion, caste and sect in an Indian village. By Audrey Cantlie. (School of Oriental and African Studies, London Studies on South Asia, No. 3.) pp. xiii, 322, 14 maps. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1984. £10.50.

Aspect of cultural history of Sikkim: studies in coinage. By P. K. Bhattacharyya. pp. xiv, 86 + errata slip, 14 plates, map (on endpapers). Calcutta and New Delhi, K. P. Bagchi & Co., 1984. Rs.90

Tibetan paintings: a study of Tibetan thangkas 11th–19th centuries. By Pratapaditya Pal. pp. viii, 225, 115 colour plates, 12 monochrome illus. London and Pennsylvania, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd for Ravi Kumar, Sotheby Publications, 1984. £42.50.

Die buddhistische Briefliteratur Indiens. By Siglinde Dietz. pp. 509. Asiatische Forschungen, vol. 84. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1984.

Catalogue du Kanjur tibétain de l'édition de 'Jang sa-tham. Seconde partie. Texte en Translitération. By Yoshiro Imaeda. (Bibliographia Philologica Buddhica. Series Maior, IIb) pp. 112. Tokyo, International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1984.

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