Skip to main content Accessibility help

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Other actions
- Information
- - Add bookmark
  - Add alert
  - RSS Feed
  - Share

Published on behalf of the Royal Asiatic Society

Journal Home

Only show content I have access to (6)

Over 3 years (180)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
ISSN: 1356-1863

EISSN: 1474-0591

URL: /core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 119 - April 1987

Reviews of Books

The Dutch East India Company and the economy of Bengal. 1630–1720. By Om Prakash. pp. xii, 291, map. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1985. £27.70.

A History of Christianity in India. 1707–1858. By Stephen Neill. pp. xvii, 578. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1985. £45.00.

The heart of Buddhist wisdom: a translation of the Heart Sūtra with historical introduction and commentary. By Douglas A. Fox. (Studies in Asian Thought and Religion, Volume 3.) pp. 183. Lewiston/Queenstown, The Edwin Mellen press, 1985. US$39.95.

Legitimacy and symbols: the South Asian writings of F. W. Buckler. Edited by M. N. Pearson. (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 26.) pp. 193. Ann Arbor, Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Michigan, 1985. US$ 18.95 (cloth). US$ 8.95 (paper).

Buddhist studies in honour of Hammalava Saddhātissa. Edited by Gatare Dhammapala, Richard Gombrich and K. R. Norman. pp. xviii, 262, front. Nugegoda, Sri Lanka, Hammalava Saddhatissa Felicitation Volume Committee, University of Sri Jayawardenpura, 1984.

The Indianness of Rudyard Kipling: a study in stylistics. By S. A. Azfar Husain. (Asian Impact on Europe Series.) pp. 223, London, Cosmic Press. 1983. £15.00.

Brick temples of Bengal from the archives of David McCutchion. Edited by George Michell. pp. xviii, 254. [12]maps, 178 pl. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press. [1983]. £75.00.

Karma and creativity. By Christopher Chapple (SUNY Series in Religion) pp. xii, 144. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1986.US$29.50 (cloth), US$9.95 (paper).

The two traditions of meditation in ancient India. By Johannes Bronkhorst. (Alt-und Neu-Indische Studien, hrsg. vom Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an der Universität Hamburg, Bd. 28.) pp. xii, 145. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986. DM 36.

Art of Nepal: a catalogue of the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art collection. By Pratapaditya Pal. pp. 258, illus. in colour and black and white. 2 maps. Los Angeles, Calif., Los Angeles Country Museum of Art in association with University of California Press, Los Angeles and London, 1985. £18.95.

Mṛgenrāgama, section des rites et section du comportement. avec la Vṛtti de Bhaṭṭanāyaṇakaṇṭha. Traduction, introdution et notes par Héléne Brunner-Lachaux. (Publications de l'Institut Français d'Indologie No.69.) pp. xlvii, 496. Pondichéry, Institut Français d'Indologie, 1985.

Splendours of the Raj: British Architecture in India 1660–1947. By Philip Davies. pp. 257, 201 illus. London, John Murray. 1985. £25.00.

Max Weber in Asian studies. Edited by Andreas E. Buss. (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Vol. 42.) pp. [vi], 252. Leiden, E. J. Brill. 1985. Guilders 42.

Peasant history in South India. By David Ludden. pp. xix, 310, 18 maps, 10 figures, 10 tables. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1985. (published March 1986). £32.20.

Cultural relations between India and Southeast Asian countries. By H. B. Sarkar. pp. xxii, 355. 56 illus. 6 maps. New Delhi, Indian Council for Cultural Relations and Motilal Banarsidass. 1985. Rs.400.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 119 - April 1987

Reviews of Books