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Book Reviews

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Pages 125-153 | Published online: 08 May 2007
 

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Maheshwar P. Joshi, Allen C. Fanger and Charles W. Brown (eds), Himalaya: Past and Present, Volume III (Almora, Shree Almora Book Depot, 1993), xiv + 354pp. Rs 500.

David Shulman, The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993), x + 153pp. US $27.50.

Richard H. Davis, Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshipping Siva in Medieval India (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1991), xvi + 200pp. US $35.

Satish Chandra, Mughal Religious Policies, the Rajputs and the Deccan (Delhi, Vikas, 1993), xii + 223pp. £17.95.

Ashin Das Gupta, Merchants of Maritime India 1500–1800 (London, Variorum, 1994), no pagination. £49.50.

Om Prakash, Precious Metals and Commerce (London, Variorum, 1994), no pagination. £45.00.

Edward Ingram, Britain's Persian Connection, 1798–1828: Prelude to the Great Game in Asia (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992), xx + 351pp. A$120.

Lewis Rowell, Music and Musical Thought in Early India (Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1992), xvii + 409pp. US $59.

Carol Tingey, Auspicious Music in a Changing Society: The Damai Musicians of Nepal (London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1994), 254pp. £35.

Reg White, Nehru. A Life (Delhi and London, Sangam Books, 1993), 77pp. £6.95.

Ponna Wignaraja (ed.), New Social Movements in the South: Empowering the People (New Delhi, Vistaar Publications, 1993), xviii + 276pp. Rs 275.

D. Mandal, Ayodhya: Archaeology after Demolition, Tracts for the Times 5 (London, Sangam Books, 1993), xiv, 69pp.

Karen Isaksen Leonard, Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1992), xii + 333pp.

Rekha Kaul, Caste, Class and Education (New Delhi, Sage, 1993), 276pp. Rs 275.

East Asia Analytical Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, India's Economy at the Midnight Hour: Australia's India Strategy (Canberra, AGPS, 1994), 259pp.

Hans Linneman (ed.), South‐South Trade Preferences: The GSTP and trade in manufactures, (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1992), 236pp. Rs 240.

Narendar Pani, Redefining Conservatism (New Delhi, Sage, 1994), 136pp. Rs 195 hbk, Rs 95 pbk.

Iqbal Singh, Between Two Fires, Towards An Understanding of Jawaharlal Nehru's Foreign Policy, Vol. 1 (London, Sangam Books, 1992), 376pp. £21.95.

Ghanshyam Shah (ed.), Capitalist Development, Critical Essays: Felicitation Volume in Honour of Prof. A. R. Desai (London, Sangam Books, 1992), xii + 411pp. £24.95.

Hein Streefkerk, On the Production of Knowledge: Fieldwork in South Gujarat 1971–1991 (Amsterdam, VU University Press, 1993).

S. D. Muni Pangs of Proximity: India and Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1993), 259pp. 1993. Rs 250.

Leigh Minturn, Sita's Daughters. Coming Out of Purdah (Oxford University Press, New York, 1993), xiv + 371pp. A$34.95 (pbk).

Archana Parashar, Women and Family Law Reform in India: Uniform Civil Code and Gender Equality (New Delhi, Sage, 1992), 348pp.

Winand M. Callewaert and Bart OP de Beeck, Nirgun‐Bhakti‐Sagar. Devotional Hindi Literature. A Critical edition of the Panc — Vani or Five Works of Dadū, Kabir, Namdev, Raidas, Hardas with the Hindi Songs of Goraknath and Sundardas, and a Complete Word‐index, Heidelberg University South Asian Studies No. XXV (New Delhi, Manohar, 1991), 2 vols, 1076pp. Rs 1000.

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