Book reviews

Central Asia

Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. By Henry S. Bradsher. Duke Press Policy Studies. Durham N.C. 1983. Pp. 324. Map. Bibliog. Index. $32.60. cloth. $12.75 paperback.

Islamic Peoples of The Soviet Union. By Shirin Akiner. (With an Appendix on the non‐Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union.) Kegan Paul International: London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley, 1983. Pp. 462. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.

South Asia

South Asian Security after Afghanistan. By G. S. Bhargava. Lexington Books, Gower Publishing Co. Ltd., Aldershot, Hants., 1983. Pp. 198. Index. £18.50.

Escape from Empire: The Attlee Government and the Indian Problem. By R. J. Moore. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. 356. Bibliog. Index. £19.50.

The Viceroys of India. By Mark Bence‐Jones. London, Constable, 1982. Pp. 343. Illus. Index. £12.50.

Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770–1870. By C. A. Bayly. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1983 (Cambridge South Asian Studies 28), Pp. 489. Maps. Index. £29.50.

A Family Affair: India Under Three Prime Ministers. By Ved Mehta. London, Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. 166. Index. £12.50.

Politics in India. By Rajni Kothari. Delhi, Orient Longman, 1982. Pp. 461. Index. £4.95.

Land to the Tiller: the Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia. By Ronald J. Herring. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. 314. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.

Rank and Rivalry: the politics of inequality in rural West Bengal. By Marvin Davis. Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 239. Illus. Index. £20.

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944. By Paul R. Greenough. Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 342. Index. £29.

Communism in Kerala: A Study in Political Adaptation. By T. J. Nossiter. London, C. Hurst & Co. for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1982. Pp. 426. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £18.50.

Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500. By Francis Robinson. Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1982. Pp. 238. £18.

Middle East

The Soviet Union and the Arabian Peninsula: Soviet Policy towards the Persian Gulf and Arabia. By Ariyeh Yodfat. Croom Helm, London & Canberra. St Martin's Press, New York. 1983. Pp. 191. Bibliog. Index. £13.95.

The Slow Rapprochement: Britain and Turkey in the Age of Kemal Atatürk 1919–38. By Stephen F. Evans. Eothen Press. 1982. Pp. 123. Bibliog. £4.50.

Ikinci Dünya Harbinde Türk Dis Siyaseti [Turkish Foreign Policy in the Second World War]. By Zeki Kuneralp. Istanbul Matbaasi. 1982. Pp. 103. Tables. TL 350.

The History of the British Petroleum Company. Vol. 1, The Developing Years 1901–1932. By R. W. Ferrier. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 801 + xxx. Graphs. Photographs. Tables. Index. £35.

Sana'a, an Arabian Islamic City. Edited by R. B. Serjeant and R. Lewcock. London, World of Islam Festival Trust, 1983. Pp. 631. Illus. Index. £95.

South‐East Asia

The ASEAN States and Regional Security. By Sheldon W. Simon. Stanford University Press, 1982. Pp. 161. £7.70.

Contemporary Laos. Edited by Martin Stuart‐Fox. St Lucia and London, University of Queensland Press. 1982. Pp. 345. Index. £22.45.

The Thai Young Turks. By Chai‐Anan Samudavanija. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 1982. Pp. 101. Appendices. Bibliog. N.p.

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899–1903. By Stuart Creighton Miller. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1982. Pp. 340. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £19.50.

Far East

Soviet Policy in East Asia. Edited by Donald S. Zagoria. New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1982. Pp. 360. Index. £21.

Justice and Politics in People's China: Legal Order or Continuing Revolution. By James P. Brady. Academic Press Inc. (London) Ltd., 1982. Pp. 268. £17.80.

China On The Western Front: Britain's Chinese Workforce in the First World War. By Michael Summerskill. London, Summerskill, 1982. Pp. 236. Maps. Illus. Index. £6.95.

Yüan Thought: Chinese Thought and Religion Under the Mongols. Edited by Hok‐lam Chan and Wm. Theodore de Bary. New York, Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. 545. Index. $45.50.

Economic Growth in Prewar Japan. By Takafusa Nakamura. New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1983. Pp. 326. £30.

The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan. By John Crump. Croom Helm, London and Canberra, and St Martin's Press, New York, 1983. Pp. 374. £15.95.

The Women of Suye Mura. By Robert J. Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell. Chicago and London. University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. 293. Illus. Maps. Index. £6. (paper‐back).

Hideyoshi. By Mary Elizabeth Berry. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. 293. Illus. Maps. Index. £24.

Shorter Notices

The Financial Development of India, Japan, and the United States: A Trilateral Institutional, Statistical, and Analytic Comparison. By Raymond W. Goldstein. Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. 120. £10.95.

The Soviet “Threat” at China's Gates. By Gerald Segal. (Conflict Studies No. 143). London, Institute for the Study of Conflict, 1983. Pp. 22. £3.50 (paperback).

Emperor Hirohito and his Chief Aide‐de‐Camp ‐ the Honjō Diary 1933–36. Transl. and Introd. by Mikiso Hane. University of Tokyo Press. 1983. Pp. 263. £12.50.

Vietnam: The Revolutionary Path. By Thomas Hodgkin. London, Macmillan, 1981. Pp. 433. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.

The Trekker's Guide to the Himalaya and Karakoram. By Hugh Swift. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. Pp. 342. Illus. Maps. Index. £5.95.

Banaras: City of Light. By Diana L. Eck. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. 344. Illus. Index. £14.95.

The Lights of Singapore. By Roland Braddell. Oxford University Press (Oxford in Asia paperbacks), Kuala Lumpur, 1982. Pp. 205. Illus. £8.50.

China Old and New. By John Logan. Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, 1982. Pp. 193. Illus. £6.45. (Obtainable from Christopher Foss, Bookseller, 120 Baker Street, London, W.1)

Totto‐chan: The Little Girl at the Window. By Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. Translated by Dorothy Britton. Tokyo, Kodansha International Limited, 1982. Pp. 195. Illus. £7.95.