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Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Want. Social and Economic Implications of the Green Revolution. By Andrew Pearse. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1980. Pp. xi + 262. Pref. Bibliog. Index. £7.50. (hardback).

Middle East

Britain and her Buffer State. The Collapse of the Persian Empire, 1890–1914. By David McLean. Royal Historical Society, London, Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd., 1979. Pp. x + 157. Pref. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £7.90. $19.00.

Iran: Royalty, Religion and Revolution. By Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi. Canberra, Ma'rifat Publishing House, 1980. Pp. xii + 392. Illus. Notes. Intro. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. Aust.$ 30.

South Asia

Strategies of British India: Britain, Iran and Afghanistan, 1798–1850. By M. E. Yapp. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 682. Notes. Bibliog. Maps. Index. £40.00 (hardback).

Changing Political Leadership in an Indian Province: The Central Provinces and Berar 1919–1939. By D. E. U. Baker. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 233. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 60 (hardback).

Letters from India: describing a journey in The British Dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831 undertaken by order of the French Government: By Victor Jacquemont with an introduction by John Rosselli. (2 Vols.) Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. lxv + 409. Pp. xi + 378. Intros. Map. Frontis. £18.50 (hardback).

The District Officer in India 1930–1947. By Roland Hunt and John Harrison. London, Scolar Press, 1980. Pp. xxxii + 255. Pref. Intro. Gloss. Index. Maps. £17.50 (hardback).

Railways of the Raj. By Michael Satow and Ray Desmond, with a foreword by Paul Theroux. London, Scolar Press, 1980. Pp. 118. Foreword. Illus. Gloss. £15.00 (hardback).

A History of the Joint Steamer Companies. By Sir Percival Griffiths. London, Inchcape and Co. Ltd., 1979. Pp. xvi + 156. Pref. Foreword. Intro. Maps. Illus. Appendices. £5.00 (hardback).

Ancient Indian Magic and Folklore: an Introduction. By Margaret Stutley. London and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. xiii + 190. Pref. Intro. Gloss. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Illus. £6.50 (hardback).

South and South‐east Asia, 1945–1979: Problems and Policies. By B. N. Pandey. (The Making of the Twentieth Century Series). London, The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1980. Pp. x + 236. Pref. Map. Table. Bibliog. Refs. Index. £12.50 (hardback) £4.95 (paperback).

The North‐East Frontier of India, 1865–1914. By D. P. Choudhury. Calcutta, The Asiatic Society, 1978. Pp. xiii + 168. Bibliog. Index. Maps. Appendix. £3.00 (hardback).

Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India.By Bipan Chandra. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1979. Pp. xi + 395. Pref. Index. £12.00 (hardback).

Central Asia

Mongolia's Culture and Society. By Sechin Jagchid and Paul Hyer, with a foreword by Joseph Fletcher. Boulder Colorado, Westview Press, and Dawson Publishing, Folkestone, England, 1979. Pp. vii + 461. Foreword. Pref. Illus. Notes. Index. £12.50 (hardback).

South‐East Asia

Traditional Authority, Islam and Rebellion; a Study of Indonesian Political Behaviour. By Karl D. Jackson. London, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1980. Pp. xxiv + 375. Pref. Maps. Figs. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliog. Index. £12.00. $25.00 (hardback).

The British in Malaya 1880–1941: The Social History of a European Community in Colonial South‐East Asia. By John G. Butcher. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xix + 293. Pref. Tables. Figs. Maps. Plates. Notes. Gloss. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £13.95 (hardback).

Indians in Malaysia and Singapore. By S. Arasaratnam. (Revised ed.). Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xv+239. Pref. Intro. Tables. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.95 (paperback).

Class Race and Colonialism in West Malaysia: The Indian Case. By M. Stenson. Hemel Hempstead, Herts, Prentice/Hall International, (University of Queensland Press), 1980. Pp xii + 234. Illus. Pref. Bibliog. Index. £11.50 (hardback).

Ilongot Headhunting 1883–1974. By Renato Rosaldo. California, Stanford University Press, 1980. Pp. 313. Bibliog. Index.

Far East

The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness: Radical Anti‐Traditionalism in the May Fourth Era. By Lin Yü‐Sheng. Madison, University of Winconsin Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 201. Foreword. £12.00 (hardback).

Perspectives On a Changing China: Essays in Honour of Professor C. Martin Wilbur on the Occasion of His Retirement. By Joshua A. Fogel and William T. Rowe (Eds). Westview Press, U.S.A., 1979. Pp. x + 325. Intro. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £11.00 (hardback).

China since the ‘Gang of Four’. By Bill Brugger (Ed.). London, Croom Helm, 1980. Pp. 281. Tables. Acks. Abbrevs. Intro. Bibliog. Index. £14.50 (hardback).

The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 3. Sui and T'ang China, 589–906, Part I. Edited by Denis Twitchett. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xx + 850. Pref. Tables. Maps. Gloss. Index. £35.00 (hardback).

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road; The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia. By Peter Hopkirk. London, John Murray, 1980. Pp. xi + 252. Bibliog. Index. Illus. Maps. £9.50 (hardback).

The Silk Road; A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu. By Jan Myrdal. Trans. from the Swedish by Ann Henning. London, Gollancz, 1980. Pp. xiii + 292. Illus. Maps. Gloss. Index. £7.50 (hardback).

Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army 1905–1925. By Donald S. Sutton. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1980. Pp. ix + 404. $18.50 (hardback).

Mandarins, Jews and Missionaries: The Jewish Experience in the Chinese Empire. By Michael Pollak. Philadelphia, The Jewish Publications Society, America, 1980. Pp. 346. Pref. Prologue. Illus. Index. Notes. Appendix. Gloss. $14.95 (hardback).

A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years. By Shuichi Kato, translated by David Chibbett. London, The Macmillan Press and Paul Norbury Publications, 1979. Pp. xii + 315. Gloss. Bibliog. Notes. Index. £12.00.

A History of Modern Japanese Literature. By Kenshiro Homma. Tokyo, Japan Science Press, 1980. Pp. vi + 206. Bibliog. Index. Pref. Y4,800.

1 There is also a surprising misprint in the Glossary Where “Bakufu” is said to be, literally, “bent government"! Many a rebel down the centuries would agree but of course it should be, literally, “tent government”. Another misprint in the Glossary is “Watkukshi” in a head word which should read “Watakushi” (lit. “selfishness” but colloquially the personal pronoun “I").