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Volume 7 - Issue 1 - April 1997

Book Review

Islamic art in the Ashmolean. 2 vols. Edited by J. W. Allan. (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, Vol. X.) pp. x, 198, illus; x, 172, illus. Oxford etc., Oxford University Press for the Board of Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1995. £70.00.

Firearms of the Islamic world in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait. By Robert Elgood. pp. 240, front., illus. in col., map. London and New York, I. B. Tauris, 1995. £50.00.

Anglo-Maratha relations during the administration of Warren Hastings 1772–1785. (Vol. 1.) Anglo-Maratha relations 1785–96. (Vol. 2.) By Sailendra Nath Sen. pp. xxi, 219; xvi, 328, 2 maps. London, Sangam Books1995. First pub. 1961 and 1974. £19.95 each.

The British Raj in India: an historical review. BY S. M. Burke and Salim Al-Din Quraishi. pp. xiv, 699, front. Karachi etc., Oxford University Press, 1995. &30.00.

The rediscovery of India: a new subcontinent. By Khan Ansar Hussain with a foreword by Sarvepalli Gopal. pp. xi, 351, 11 pl. plus line drawings. London, Sangam Books by arrangement with Orient Longman, 1955., £24.95.

India inscribed. European and British writing on India 1600–1800. By Kate Teltscher. pp. x, 280, 10 figs. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1995. £13.99.

Indian philosophical analysis. Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika from Gaṅgeśa to Rachunātha śiromaṇi. Edited by Karl H. Potter and Sibajiban Bhattacharya. (Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Vol. VI.) pp. xii, 672. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1992. US $65.00, £36.50.

Metarules of Pāṇinian grammar. Vyāḍi’s ParibhāṣāvṚtti. 2 vols. Critically edited with translation and commentary by Dominik Wujastyk. (Groningen Oriental Studies, Vol. V.) pp. xxiv, 96; xxxi, 304. Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 1993. NLG 110.

The Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Niẓāmī. By Barbara Brend. pp. 72, front., illus. in col. and bl. and wh., map. London, The British Library, 1995. £10.95 (paperback).

Hidden in the lute an anthology of two centuries of Urdu literature. Selected and translated by Ralph Russell, pp. viii, 312. Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1995. £25.00.

The rāgas of early Indian music. Modes, melodies and musical notations from the Gupta period to c. 1250. By Richard Widdess. (Oxford Monographs on Music.) pp. xx, 429, 3 illus., 2 maps. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995. £50.00.

The Legacy of the Malay Letter. Warisan warkah Melayu. By Annabel Teh Gallop with an essay by E. Ulrich Kratz. pp. 240, 210 col., 52 bl. and wh. illus. London, The British Library for the National Archives of Malaya, 1994, £35.00.

Early views of Indonesia: drawing from the British Library. Pemandangan Indonesia di masa lampau: Seni gambar dari British Library. By Annabel Teh Gallop, pp. 128, 126 illus. in col. and bl. and wh. London, The British Library: Jakarta, Yayasan Lontar, 1995. £22.50.

Vietnam 1945: the quest for power. By David G. Marr. (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book.) pp. xxviii, 602, front., 32 illus., 4 maps. Berkeley, etc., University of California Press, 1995. US $50.00.

Maritime Asia. Profit maximisation, ethics and trade structure C. 1300–1800. Edited by Karl Anton Sprengard and Roderich Ptak. (South China and Maritime Asia, Vol. 2.) pp. xi, 239. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994. DM 138.

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Volume 7 - Issue 1 - April 1997

Book Review