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Paula Richman(ed.): Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia [P.R.]. xiii, 273 pp. Berkeley: University of California, 1991. $40 (paper $16). - Monika Thiel-Horstmann(ed.): Rāmāyana and Rāmāyaṇas [M.T.H.]. (Khoj, 3.) vii, 249 pp. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1991. DM 98.
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Rampada Chattopadhyay: A Vaiṣṇava interpretation of the Brahmasūtras: Vedānta and theism. Transl. by Kanti Chattopadhyay. (Indian Thought, Vol. 3.) xxvi, 299 pp. Leiden: E.J. Brill1992. Guilders 150, $85.75.
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Ernst Steinkellner(ed.): Studies in the Buddhist epistemological tradition; Proceedings of the second International Dharmakīrti Conference, Vienna, 11 June 11–16, 1989. (Österreichische Ak. der Wiss. Phil.-hist. Kl. Denkschriften, 222. Bd. Beiträge zur Kultur und Geistesgeschichte Asiens.) xix, 430 pp. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1991. ÖS 420, DM 60.
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Jaroslav Krejčí: The human predicament: its changing image. A study in comparative religion and history. xii, 194 pp. London: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. £35.
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Antonio Rigopoulos: The life and teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi. (SUNY Series in Religious Studies.) xxviii, 466 pp., front. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. $59.90 (paper $19.95).
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Kathleen M. Erndl: Victory to the mother: the Hindu goddess of northwest India in myth, ritual, and symbol. x, 208 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. £27.50 (paper £11.95).
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G. Michell(ed.) [and] Bharat Ramamrutham (photographs): Temple towns of Tamil Nadu. 128 pp. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1993. Rs. 795.
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Rosie Llewellyn-Jones: A very ingenious man: Claude Martin in early colonial India. xxi, 241 pp. 12 plates, Map [on end papers]. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1992 [pub. 1993]. Rs. 400, £15.95.
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Mark Holmström(ed.): Work for wages in South Asia. (South Asian Studies [Heidelberg], no. xix.) [v], 193 pp. New Delhi: Manohar, 1990. (Distributed by Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH. Rs. 200, DM 58.) - A. Satyanarayana: Andhra peasants under British rule: agrarian relations and the rural economy 1900–1940. (South Asian Studies [Heidelberg], no. xxiii.) New Delhi: Manohar, 1990. (Distributed by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. DM 54.) - Arun Bandopadhyay: The agrarian economy of Tamilnadu, 1820–1855. (Department of History, University of Calcutta, Monograph 4.) xiv, 339 pp., 3 maps. Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi & Co., 1992. Rs. 250. - V. K. Ramachandran: Wage labour and unfreedom in agriculture: an Indian case study. (WIDER Studies in Development Economics.) [xvii], 321 pp. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1991. £35.
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Rajeswari Sunder Rajan(ed.): The lie of the land: English literary studies in India. ix, 308 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1992. £12.95, Rs.250.
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Peter Bishop: Dreams of power: Tibetan Buddhism and the Western imagination. 162 pp. London: Athlone Press; Rutherford, Madison and Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993. £40.
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José Ignacio Cabezón (tr.): A dose of emptiness: an annotated translation of the sTong thun chen mo of mKhas grub dGe legs dpal bzang. (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies.) [xvii], 590 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992. $29.50.
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Michael Aris [and] Patrick Booz: Lamas, princes, and brigands: Joseph Rock's photographs of the Tibetan borderlands of China. Contributions by S.B. Sutton and Jeffrey Wagner. 141 pp. New York: China Institute in America, 1992. (Distributed by the University of Washington Press. $29.95.)
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Douglas Wile: Art of the bedchamber: the Chinese sexual yoga classics, including women's solo meditation texts. vi, 293 pp. Albany,: State University of New York Press, 1992. $19.95.
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John Robert Shepherd: Statecraft and political economy on the Taiwan frontier, 1600–1800. xviii, 596 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. $65.
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Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen: Ten years of turbulence: the Chinese Cultural Revolution. (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.) viii, 369 pp. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1993. £55.
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Michelle Yeh (ed. and tr.): Anthology of modern Chinese poetry. lv, 245 pp. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992. £20, $36.
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David Shambaugh: Beautiful Imperialist: China perceives america, 1972–1990xv, 326 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. $35.
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John Timothy Wixted: Japanese scholars of China: a bibliographical handbook. xiii, 474 pp. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ontario, and Lampeter, Dyfed: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. £49.95.
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Steven W. Mosher(ed.): Korea in the 1990s: prospects for unification. vii, 101 pp. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1992. $27.95.
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