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Volume 23 - Issue 1 - February 1960

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Georg Buddruss: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pašai-Dialekte. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, XXXIII, 2.) [v], 74 pp. Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GMBH, 1959. DM. 10.

Olaf Caroe: The Pathans, 550 b.c. – a.d. 1957. xxii, 521 pp., front., 11 plates, 4 maps. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958. 60s.

A. S. Altekar: The coinage of the Gupta empire and its imitations. (Corpus of Indian Coins, Vol. IV.) [IV], xvi, 390 pp., 29 plates. Banaras: Numismatic Society of India, 1957. Rs. 30, £3 3s.

Mulk Râj Anand: Kama kala: some notes on the philosophical basis of Hindu erotic sculpture. 47 pp., 69 plates, 16 photos. Geneva, etc.: Nagel, [1958]. (Distributed in G.B. by Charles Skilton Ltd. £7 7s.)

K. M. Varma: Seven words in Bharata: what do they signify?xv, 144 pp. Calcutta, etc.: Orient Longmans, 1958. Rs. 5.

Verrier Elwin: Myths of the North-East Frontier of India, xxii, 448 pp. Shillong: North-East Frontier Agency, [1958]. Rs. 10.

Vincent A. Smith: The Oxford history of India. Third edition, edited by Percival Spear. xv, 898 pp., 40 plates, map. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958. 42s.

U. C. Sarkar: Epochs in Hindu legal history. (Vishveshvaranand Institute Publications, 155. Vishveshvaranand Indological Series, 8.) xvi, 441 pp. Hoshiarpur: Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, 1958. Rs. 30.

J. Duncan M. Derrett: Hindu law past and present; being an account of the controversy which preceded the enactment of the Hindu Code, the text of the Code as enacted, and some comments thereon, xx, 408 pp. Calcutta: A. Mukherjee & Co., Private Ltd., 1957. Rs. 12.

Richard L. Park and Irene Tinker (ed.): Leadership and political institutions in India. x, 486 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1959. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £4.)

Paul L.-M. Serruys: The Chinese dialects of Han time according to Fangyen. (University of California Publications in East Asiatic Philology, Vol. ii.) xix, 350 pp., map. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959. $6.

A. C. Graham: Two Chinese philosophers: Ch'êng Ming-tao and Ch'êng Yi-ch'uan. xxi, 195 pp. London: Lund Humphries, 1958. 45s.

David Hawkes (tr.): Ch'u tz'ŭ, the songs of the south: an ancient Chinese anthology. (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Chinese Series.) x, 229 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. 30s.

Huang Sung-K'ang: Lu Hsün and the New Culture Movement of modern China. x, 158 pp. Amsterdam: Djambatan, 1957. Guilders 13.

Chêng Tê-K'un: Archaeology in China. Vol. 1. Prehistoric China. xix, 250 pp., including 44 plates. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., [1959]. 42s.

Robert James Miller: Monasteries and culture change in Inner Mongolia. (Asiatische Forschungen, Bd. 2.) xi, 152pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1959. DM. 20.

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