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Book Reviews

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Pages 119-143 | Published online: 08 May 2007
 

Robin Jeffrey, Politics, Women and Well‐being: How Kerala became a model (London, MacMillan, Cambridge Commonwealth Series, 1992), xiv + 273 pp.

M. S. S. Pandian, The Image Trap: M. G. Ramachandran in Film and Politics (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1991), 166 pp.

Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991), xi + 420 pp. pbk. $A35.

Usha Jumani, Dealing with Poverty. Self‐employment for poor rural women (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1991), 246 pp. Rs95.

Robert G. Wirsing, Pakistan's Security Under Zia. 1977–1988: The Policy Imperatives of a Peripheral Asian State (London, Macmillan, 1991), viii +216 pp. £40.

Partha S. Ghosh, Cooperation and Conflict in South Asia (New Delhi, Manohar, 1989), 265pp. Rs230.

Douglas E. Haynes, Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India. The Sluiping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852–1928 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1991), 363 pp.

Steven Kemper, The Presence of the Past. Chronicles, Politics and Culture in Sinhala Life (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1991), xiv + 244 pp.

Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey, (ed.), The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991), xiv + 328 pp. $A110.

The Laws of Manu. Translated by Wendy Doniger with Brian K. Smith (London, Penguin Books, 1991, lxxviii + 362 pp. £7.99.

J. B. Fleuckiger and L. J. Sears (ed.), Boundaries Of The Text. Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, Number 35, x + 161 pp. pbk. US$14.95.

Yasmine Gooneratne, A Change of Skies (Sydney, Picador, 1991), 329 pp. $A14.95.

Inder Malhotra, India: Trapped in Uncertainty (London, Sangam Books, 1992), xiii + 161 pp. £12.95.

Omar Khalidi (ed.), Memoirs of Cyril Jones: People, Society and Railways in Hyderabad (New Delhi, Mahohar Publications, 1991), 95 pp.

R. Ptak and D. Rothermund (ed.) Emporia, Commodities and Entrepreneurs in Asian Maritime Trade, c.1400–1750 (Stuttgart Steiner‐Verlag, 1991), xii + 509 pp.

Mark Holmstrom (ed.), Work for Wages in South Asia (New Delhi, Manohar, 1989), 193 pp. Rs200.

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