Book reviews

Central Asia

Ney Elias: Explorer and Envoy Extraordinary in High Asia. By Gerald Morgan. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1971. Pp. 294. Illus. Maps. Index. £4.50.

Beyond the Frontiers: the biography of Colonel F. M. Bailey. By Arthur Swinson. London, Hutchinson, 1971. Pp. xiii+246. Illus. Maps. Index. £2.50.

Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia. By Farley Mowat. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Pp. 313. Maps. Index. $7.95. (now published by Heinemann of London as The Siberians, at £3.20.)

Archaeology in Soviet Central Asia. By Grégoire Frumkin. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1971. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 96 guilders.

Chinese Central Asia. By C. P. Skrine. With an introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband. New York, Barnes and Noble; London, Methuen, 1971. Pp. 302. Illus. Index. £5.75.

Sub‐Continent

Nepal, Strategy for Survival. By Leo E. Rose. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1971. Pp. xiii+310. Map. Bibliog. Index. $10.00.

Bhutan: Land of Hidden Treasures. Text by Blanche C. Olschak, photography by Ursula and Augusto Gansser. Translated from the German. London, Allen & Unwin, 1971. Pp. 63. Illus. £3.00.

The Evolution of India's Northern Border. By P. C. Chakravarti. London, Asia Publishing House, 1971. Pp. xii+179. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

The Rags of North Indian Music. Their Structure and Evolution. By N. A. Jairazbhoy. Faber & Faber. Pp. 222, £10.00.

Bishop Heber in Northern India. Selections from Heber's Journal. Edited by M. A. Laird. Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. 324. Illus. Index. £6.40.

Sleeman in Oudh. An Abridgement of W. H. Sleeman's “A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude” 1849–1850. Edited by P. D. Reeves. Cambridge University Press. 1971. Pp. 329. Illus. Glossary. Index. £6.40.

Religion, Politics and History in India: Collected Papers in Indian Sociology. By Louis Dumont. Pp. 165. Mouton, Paris/The Hague, 1970.

To Guard My People: The History of the Indian Police. By Sir Percival Griffiths. London, Benn, 1971. Pp. 444. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Land and the Constitution in India. By H. C. L. Merillat. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. 321. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

Middle East

Turkey. By John C. Dewdney. London, Chatto & Windus, 1971. Pp. x+214. Index. Maps. Diagrams. £2.10.

Turkey: A Sketch of Turkish History. By Freya Stark. Photographs by Fulvio Roiter. London, Thames & Hudson, 1971. Pp. 249. Plates. Index. Map. £6.50.

Everyday Life in Ottoman Turkey. By Raphaela Lewis. London, Batsford; New York, G. P. Putman's Sons, 1971. Pp. 206. Illus. Index. £1.70.

The Middle East Supply Centre. By Martin W. Wilmington; edited by Laurence Evans; foreword by Commander Sir Robert Jackson. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press; London, University of London Press, 1971. 248+xix pp. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. $10.00/£4.20.

Kingdoms and Strongholds of the Crusaders. By T. S. R. Boase. London, Thames and Hudson. Pp. 272. Illus. Map. £3.75.

The Chosen People: a Study of Jewish History from the time of the Exile until the Revolt of Bar Kocheba. By John M. Allegro. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1971. Pp. 285. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £3.00.

Israel and the Holy Places of Christendom. By Walter Zander. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. Pp. viii+248. Appendices. Index. £2.70.

Themes of Islamic Civilization. Edited by J. A. Williams. University of California Press, 1970. Pp. 382. £5–60.

Muslim Studies. By Ignaz Goldziher. London, Allen & Unwin, 1970. Pp. 378. £4.50.

The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin al Waleed, his Life and Campaigns. By Major General A. I. Akram. Karachi, National Publishing House, 1970. Pp. xviii+504. Maps. Index. Rs.35 (in Pakistan).

Islam and the Trade of Asia: Papers on Islamic History II Edited by E. S. Richards. Published under the auspices of the Near East History Group, Oxford and the Near East Center, University of Pennsylvania by Bruno Cassirer, Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. Pp. 267. Illus. £3.75.

Southeast Asia

Industrial Conflict in Malaya: Prelude to the Communist Revolt of 1948. By M. R. Stenson. London, Oxford University Press. 1970 Pp. 271. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Singapore: The Chain of Disaster. By Major‐General S. Woodburn Kirby. London, Cassell, 1971. Pp. xiv+270. Maps. Index. £3.15.

Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes. By Melford E. Spiro. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1971. Pp. xiv+510. Bibliog. Index. £6.50.

A Short Introduction to the History and Politics of Southeast Asia. By Richard Allen. OUP, New York, 1970. Pp. 306. Map. Bibliog. Index. £2.75 or £1.10.

Man, State, and Society in Contemporary Southeast Asia. Edited by R. O. Tilman. London, Pall Mall, 1970. Pp. 637. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

Wider War: The Struggle for Cambodia, Thailand and Laos. By Donald Kirk. London, Pall Mall Press, 1971. Pp. x+305. Bibliog. Maps. Index. £4.25.

Conflict in Laos: The Politics of Neutralization. By Arthur J. Dommen. New York, Praeger, 1971. Pp. xvi+454. Bibliog. Index. Maps. $12.50.

History of Indonesia in the Twentieth Century. By Bernhard Dahm. London, Pall Mall Press, 1971. Pp. ix+321. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £3.13.

China, Japan, Korea

China Diplomacy 1914–1912. By Madeleine Chi. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. 201. Bibliog. Index. £1.70.

British Strategy in the Far East 1919–1939. By William Roger Louis. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp. 284. Bibliog. Index. Map. £3.25.

Canton under Communism: Program and Politics in a Provincial Capital. By Ezra Vogel. Harvard University Press. Pp. 448. £6.75

The City in Communist China. Edited by J. W. Lewis. Stanford University Press and OUP, 1971. Pp. 449. Map. Index. £6.25.

China's Fertilizer Economy. By Jung‐chao Liu. Edinburgh University Press, 1971. Pp. 173. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £3.00.

The Poems of Li Ho 791–817. Translated by J. D. Frodsham. Pp. lxiv+314. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970. £3.25.

San‐ch'ü: Its Technique and Imagery. By Wayne Schlepp. Madison, Milwaukee and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. Pp. ix+155. £3.10.

The Sōkagakkai and Mass Society. By James W. White. Stanford University Press and OUP, 1971. Pp. 376. Bibliog. Index. £6.25.

Towards Restoration: the Growth of Political Consciousness in Tokugawa Japan By H. D. Harootunian. Berkeley & London, University of California Press, 1970. Pp. 410. Index. £4.75.

The Japanese Oligarchy and the Russo‐Japanese War. By Shumpei Okamoto. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1971. Pp. 358. Index. Bibliog. £5.40.

Documents of Korean Communism. Translated and edited by Dae‐sook Suh. Princeton University Press and OUP, 1971. Pp. 570. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £7.25.

Agriculture

Seeds of Change: The Green Revolution and Development in the 1970s. By Lester R. Brown. New York and London, Pall Mall, for Overseas Development Council, 1970. Pp. xv+205. Bibliog. Index. £3.00.

Language

Modern Spoken Tibetan: Lhasa Dialect. By Melvyn C. Goldstein and Nawang L. Nornang. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1970. Pp. xx+407. £5.75.

Exercises in Spoken Hindi. Edited by R. S. McGregor. Cambridge University Press, 1970. £3, plus £7.06 for tape including tax.

A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo‐aryan Languages: Phonetic Analysis. By R. L. and D. R. Turner. Oxford University Press, 1971. £6.00.

Nationalities of the Soviet East: Publications and Writing Systems. A Bibliographical Directory and Transliteration Tables for Iranian and Turkic Language Publications, 1818–1945, Located in U.S. Libraries. By Edward Allworth. New York and London. Columbia University Press, 1971. Pp. 440. Index. $17.50.

The Arabic Language Today. By A. F. L. Beeston. London, Hutchinson, 1970. Pp. 125. 75p.