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S. C. Banerjee: A brief history of Tantra literature. xvii, 662 pp. Calcutta: Naya Prokash, 1988. Rs. 400.
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S. Mahdihassan: The history and natural history of Ephedra as Soma. xii, 172 pp. Islamabad: Pakistan Science Foundation, 1987.
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Stuart H. Blackburn: Singing of birth and death: texts in performance, xxiv, 263 pp., 14 plates. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
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John Stratton Hawley [and] Mark Juergensmeyer (ed. and tr.): Songs of the saints of India. xii, 244 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988 [pub. 1989]. £24.
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George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz (ed. and tr.): The Forest Book of the Rāmāyana of Kampaṉ. ix, 402 pp. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1989. $35.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 161-162
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Koch Ebba: Shah Jahan and Orpheus: the pietre dure decoration and the programme of the throne in the Hall of Public Audiences at the Red Fort of Delhi. 56 pp. 48 plates. Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1988. 6S 480, DM 74.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 162-163
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Herdick Reinhard: Kirtipur: Stadtgestalt, Prinzipien der Raumordnung und gesellschaftliche Funktionen einer Newar-Stadt, (Schriftenreihe Internationales Asienforum, ed 6.) xiv, 272 pp., 9 plates Koln: Weltforum Verlag, 1988. DM 89
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 163-164
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Bautze Joachim: Drei ‘Bundi ’ - Ragamalas: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der rajputischen Wandmalerei. (Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie, Bd. 6.) 398 pp. 106 plates, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1987. DM 230.
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- 24 December 2009, p. 164
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K. M Varma: Technique of Gandhdran and Indo-Afghan stucco images (including images of gypsum compound), xlv, 162 pp., 16 plates. Proddu Santiniketan: K. M. Varma, 1987
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- 24 December 2009, p. 165
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Hiltebeitel Alf: The cult of Draupadī. 1: Mythologies: from Gingee to Kurukṣetra. xxvii, 487 pp. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1988. £19.95
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 165-166
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Gardner Cassels Nancy: Religion and pilgrim tax under the Company raj. (South Asian Studies, no. xvii.) xii, 184 pp., 4 plates. New Delhi: Manohar, 1988. (Distributed by Franz Steiner Verlag. DM44.)
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Moir Martin: A general guide to the India Office Records. xvi, 331 pp. London: The British Library1988. £35.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 167-168
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P. J Marshall: The new Cambridge history of India. Vol. n, Part 2: Bengal: The British bridgehead, 1740–1828. xv, 195 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1988. £17.50
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 168-169
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Tapan Raychaudhuri: Europe reconsidered: perceptions of the West in nineteenth century Bengal.. xviii, 639 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1988. £12.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 169-170
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Berry Isenberg Shirley: India's Bene Israel: a comprehensive inquiry and sourcebook. xxii, 443 pp., 3 fold-out maps, 8 plates. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1988 [pub. 1989]. (Distributed by Sangam Books Ltd. £24.50.)
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Victor H Mair: Painting and performance: Chinese picture recitation and its Indian genesis. xx, 279 pp., front., 8 (col.) plates, map [on end papers]. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988 [pub. 1989]. £24, $30.
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Robin D. S. Yates: Washing silk: the life and selected poetry of WeiChuang (834?–910). (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 26.) xiii, 289 pp., front. Cambridge, Cambridge, Mass, and London:Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1988. £18.50
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James L Watson and Evelyn S Rawski (ed): Death ritual in late imperial and modern China. xv, 334 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1988. $40.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 173-174
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Glahn Richard Von: The country of streams and grottoes: expansion, settlement, and the civilizing of the Sichuan frontier in Song times. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 123.) xxii, 305 pp., 2 maps [on end papers]. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Council on East Asian- Studies, Harvard University, [1988]. £19.25.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 174-175
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Ng Mau-sang: The Russian hero in modern Chinese fiction. (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xv, 332 pp. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press; Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, State University of New York Press, 1988. $39.50 (paper $12.95).
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 175-177
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