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Volume 52 - Issue 4 - November 1993

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Book Reviews—South Asia

In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. By Aijaz Ahmad. London: Verso, 1992. x, 358 pp.
Suvir Kaul
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23 March 2011, pp. 1040-1041
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Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise. By Akbar S. Ahmed. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 294 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).
Barbara D. Metcalf
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23 March 2011, pp. 1041-1042
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Science, Development and Violence: The Revolt against Modernity. By Claude Alvares. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. ix, 186 pp. $16.95. - Class, State and Development in India. Edited by Berch Berberoglu. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992. 330 pp. $36.00. - The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics. By Vandana Shiva. London and New Jersey: Zed Books Ltd.: Third World Network, 1991. 264 pp.
Douglas E. Streusand
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23 March 2011, pp. 1042-1044
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Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions. Edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. x, 486 pp. $45.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Kathryn Hansen
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23 March 2011, pp. 1044-1046
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The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism. By A. L. Basham. Edited and completed by Kenneth G. Zysk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xix, 159 pp. $8.95.
William K. Mahony
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23 March 2011, p. 1046
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Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Rural India. By Nikhilesh Bhattacharya, Dipankor Coondoo, Pradip Maiti, and Robin Mukherjee. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1991. 236 pp. $28.50. - Against the Few: Struggles of India's Rural Poor. By Arun Sinha. London: Zed Books Ltd., 1991. x, 228 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $17.50 (paper).
John Echeverri-Gent
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23 March 2011, pp. 1047-1048
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Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka. Edited by James Brow and Joe Weeramunda. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992.
Bryan Pfaffenberger
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23 March 2011, pp. 1049-1050
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Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God. Edited by Robert L. Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. xi, 358 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
William K. Mahony
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23 March 2011, pp. 1050-1052
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Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol. By Kathleen M. Erndl. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix, 208 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).
Cynthia Ann Humes
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23 March 2011, pp. 1052-1053
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In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections of Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Edited by Janet Gyatso. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. vii, 307 pp.
Tessa Bartholomeusz
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23 March 2011, pp. 1053-1054
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Songs of the Saints of India. By John Stratton Hawley. Translations by J. S. Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. xii, 244 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $9.75 (paper).
Hugh Van Skyhawk
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23 March 2011, pp. 1054-1056
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Social Structures of Indian Villages: A Study of Rural Bihar. By Hetukar Jha. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1991. 202 pp. $27.50.
Edward O. Henry
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23 March 2011, pp. 1056-1057
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The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics, and Culture in Sinhala Life. By Steven Kemper. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. xiv, 244 pp. $29.95.
Dennis B. McGilvray
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23 March 2011, pp. 1057-1058
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The Nāradasmṛti. Part One: Text; Part Two: Translation. Edited and translated by Richard W. Lariviere. Philadelphia: Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1989. Part One: xx, 328 pp. Part Two: xxxii, 250 pp.
Michael R. Anderson
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23 March 2011, pp. 1059-1060
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Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism. By Javed Majeed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 225 pp. $55.00.
Inderpal Grewal
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23 March 2011, pp. 1060-1061
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The Tale of the Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories. Edited by Muhammad Umar Memon. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1991. 197 pp. $11.00.
Geeta Patel
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23 March 2011, pp. 1061-1062
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The Vijayanagara Courtly Style: Incorporation and Synthesis in the Royal Architecture of Southern India, 15th–17th Centuries. By George Michell. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1992. viii, 198 pp. $34.00.
Mary Beth Heston
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23 March 2011, pp. 1062-1063
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Fīrūzābād: Palace City of the Deccan. By George Michell and Richard Eaton. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1992. 102 pp. $65.00.
Catherine B. Asher
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23 March 2011, p. 1064
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Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation. Translated by Patrick Olivelle. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. xv, 320 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Frits Staal
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23 March 2011, pp. 1065-1066
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Poems to Śiva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints. By Indira Viswanathan Peterson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. $50.00.
Paula Richman
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23 March 2011, pp. 1066-1067
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Book Reviews—South Asia

In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. By Aijaz Ahmad. London: Verso, 1992. x, 358 pp.

Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise. By Akbar S. Ahmed. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 294 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions. Edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. x, 486 pp. $45.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism. By A. L. Basham. Edited and completed by Kenneth G. Zysk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xix, 159 pp. $8.95.

Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka. Edited by James Brow and Joe Weeramunda. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992.

Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God. Edited by Robert L. Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. xi, 358 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol. By Kathleen M. Erndl. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix, 208 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections of Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Edited by Janet Gyatso. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. vii, 307 pp.

Songs of the Saints of India. By John Stratton Hawley. Translations by J. S. Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. xii, 244 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $9.75 (paper).

Social Structures of Indian Villages: A Study of Rural Bihar. By Hetukar Jha. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1991. 202 pp. $27.50.

The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics, and Culture in Sinhala Life. By Steven Kemper. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. xiv, 244 pp. $29.95.

The Nāradasmṛti. Part One: Text; Part Two: Translation. Edited and translated by Richard W. Lariviere. Philadelphia: Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1989. Part One: xx, 328 pp. Part Two: xxxii, 250 pp.

Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism. By Javed Majeed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 225 pp. $55.00.

The Tale of the Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories. Edited by Muhammad Umar Memon. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1991. 197 pp. $11.00.

The Vijayanagara Courtly Style: Incorporation and Synthesis in the Royal Architecture of Southern India, 15th–17th Centuries. By George Michell. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1992. viii, 198 pp. $34.00.

Fīrūzābād: Palace City of the Deccan. By George Michell and Richard Eaton. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1992. 102 pp. $65.00.

Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation. Translated by Patrick Olivelle. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. xv, 320 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Poems to Śiva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints. By Indira Viswanathan Peterson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. $50.00.

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