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Pages 89-110 | Published online: 08 May 2007
 

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Ian W. Mabbett, A Short History of India (Methuen Australia, North Ryde, second edn., 1983), viii, 346 pp., bibilogy, index, 13, maps, n.p.

Romila Thapar, Ancient Indian Social History: some interpretations (Sangam Books Ltd., London, 1978). 396 pp. £11.25.

Malati J Shendge, The Civilised Demons: the Harappans in the Rg Veda (Abhinav Publications, New Delhi, 1977). 441 pp. US$24.00

Margaret Stutley, Ancient Indian Magic and Folklore: an Introduction (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1980). 190 pp. A$23.00.

R. Champalakshmi, Vaisnava Iconography In The Tamil Country (Orient Longman, Delhi, 1981), vi + 370 pp., LV plates, Rs. 175.00 (cloth).

Joana Gottfried Williams, The Art of Gupta India: Empire and Province (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1982), 209 pp., 286 illus.

Anisuzzaman (ed.), Factory Correspondence and other Bengali Documents in the India Office Library and Records (India Office Library and Records, London, 1981), iii + 300 pp., map, illus.

A.T. Harrison (ed.), The Graham Indian Mutiny Papers (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast, 1980), lix + 167 pp.; illus. and maps. £7.50 stg.

Duncan B. Forrester, Caste and Christianity: Attitudes and Policies on Caste of Anglo‐Saxon Protestant Missions in India (Curzon Press, Humanities Press, 1980), viii, 227 pp., $A15.50 (cloth).

Bj⊘rn Hettne, The Political Economy Of Indirect Rule: Mysore 1881‐1947 (Curzon Press, London and Malmo, 1978), 402 pp. £5.50

Gail Minault, The Khilafat Movement. Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India (Columbia University Press, New York, 1982), viii + 294pp, US$32.50.

David Hardiman, Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District 1917‐1934 (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1981), xii + 390pp., Rs. 110.

M. Mufakharul Islam, Bengal Agriculture 1920‐1946: A Quantitative Study (Cambridge University Press, London, 1978), xiv + 283 pp., 78 tables, 16 figures. £12.50.

Erland Jansson, India, Pakistan or Pakhtunistan? the nationalist movements in the North‐West Frontier Province 1937‐47 (Studia Historica Upsaliensia, 119, Uppsala, 1981), 283pp. four appendices.

Sarvepalli Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, Volume two: 1947‐1956 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1979), 346 pp.

Georges Kristoffel Lieten, The First Communist Ministry in Kerala, 1957‐1959 (K.P. Bagchi and Company, Calcutta, 1982).

Barbara R. Joshi, Democracy in Search of Equality. Untouchable Politics and Indian Social Change, (Hindustan Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 1982) 200 pp. US$14.00.

Paul Alexander, Sri Lankan Fishermen: Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society (Australian National University Monographs on South Asia No. 7, Canberra, 1982). pp. xiv + 320, index.

Yasmine Gooneratne, Silence, Exile and Cunning: the Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (London, Sangam Books/Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 1983), xiv + 325 pp. £9.50.

Larry W. Bowman and Ian Clark (eds.), The Indian Ocean in Global Politics (Boulder, Westview Press, Colorado, and Univ. of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 1981), xi, 260 pp., A$ 19.80.

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