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Lothar Lutze: Hindi writing in postcolonial India: a study in the aesthetics of literary production. (South Asian Studies, No. xvi.) xii, 227 pp. New Delhi: Manohar Publications; Heidelberg: South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, 1985. Rs. 150.
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Frances W. Pritchett: Marvelous encounters: folk romance in Urdu and Hindi. xiii, 220 pp. Riverdale, Maryland: The Riverdale Company, 1985.
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Muhammad Sadiq: A history of Urdu literature. Second edition. Revised and enlarged, xv, 652 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1984. Rs. 225 - D. J. Matthews, C. Shackle and Shahrukh Husain: Urdu literature. x, 139 pp. London: Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies. [1985]. £4.50.
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Balai Barui: The salt industry of Bengal 1757–1800: a study in the interaction of British monopoly control and indigenous enterprise. [xi], 175 pp. Calcutta: K. P. Bagchi and Co., 1985. Rs. 80.
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David Dean Shulman: The king and the clown in South Indian myth and poetry. xvi, 447 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [1986]. £40.90.
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M. Athar Ali: The apparatus of empire: awards of ranks, offices and titles to the Mughal nobility (1574–1658). Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University.) xl, 375 pp., 2 maps. Delhi: Oxford University Press, (1985), Rs. 400.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 158-159
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Rosemary Seton: The Indian ‘Mutiny’ 1857–58: a guide to sourcematerial in the India Office Libraryand Records. xvi, 99 pp. 8 plates. London: The British Library, 1986. £12.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 159-160
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Michael Balk: Arbeitsmaterialien A, Prajñāvarman's Udānavargavivaraṇa.Transliteration of its Tibetanversion (based on xylographs of Chone/Derge and Peking) 2 vols. (Indica et Tibetica.) [xx], 554 pp.;[v], 555–1088 pp. Bonn:Indica et Tibetica, 1984.
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Per Kvaerne: Tibetan Bon religion: c death ritual of the Tibetan Bonpos (Iconography of Religions, XII, 3. xii, 34 pp., 48 plates. Leiden: E. J Brill, 1985. Guilders 68.
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Pratapaditya Pal (comp.): Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian art. 331pp. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, \1984[. (Distributed by University of Washington Press.)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 162-163
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David Morgan: The Mongols. (The peoples of Europe.) xv, 238 pp. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. £14.95.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 163-164
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Joseph Needham: Science and civilisation in China. Vol. vI: Biology and biological technology. Part 1: Botany, xxxii, 718 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 164-165
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John Carswell: Blue and white: Chinese porcelain and its impact on the Western world. Catalogue of an exhibition at the David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, October 3-December 1, 1985. 183 pp. Chicago: Chicago University, 1986. (Distributed by the David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago. $25.)
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 165-166
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C. F. Yong: Tan Kah-Kee: The making of an overseas Chinese legend. Oxford University Press Singapore, 1987. £32.50. - J. Y. Wong: The origins of an heroic image: Sun Yatsen in London 1896–1897. East Asian Historical Monographs, University Press Hong Kong, 1987. £20.
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Leo Ou-Fan Lee (ed.): Lu Xun and his legacy, xix, 324 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, ]1985[. £30.95.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 167-168
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Vera Schwarcz: The Chinese Enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. xvi, 393 pp., Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1986. £31.95.
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David Pong and Edmund S. K. Fung (ed,):(Ideal and reality: social and political change in modern China 1860–1949. xiii, 386 pp. Lanham, N.Y., and London: University Press of America, 1985. $30 (paper $15.75).
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Jacques Gernet: China and the Christian impact. Transl. by Janet Lloyd, vi, 310 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Hommes, 1986.
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John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker (ed.): The Cambridge history of China. Vol. 13. Republican China 1912–1949. Part II. xix, 1092 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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Carol Gluck: Japan's modern myths: ideology in the late Meiji period. (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) xi, 407 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. £26.50.
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- 24 December 2009, pp. 173-174
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