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JOHN JORGENSEN: Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch'an. (Sinica Leidensia, 68.) xxiv, 862 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. €185.
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ISTVÁN VÁSÁRY: Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365. xvi, 230 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £48.
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XIAOFEI TIAN: Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture: The Record of a Dusty Table. x, 319 pp. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2005. $60.
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CARL W. ERNST: Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center. (Second edition with a new preface.) xxxvi, 381 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. £24.99, Rs 1040.
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ROBERT ELGOOD: Hindu Arms and Ritual, Arms and Armour from India 1400–1865. 312 pp. 342 figures. Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers, 2004. £55.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 157-158
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SIMONTI SEN: Travels to Europe: Self and Other in Bengali Travel Narratives 1870–1910. (New Perspectives in South Asian History, 9.) viii, 226 pp. New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Limited, 2005. Rs. 490.
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THOMAS MICHAEL: The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) xi, 170 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. $21.95.
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ELI FRANCO: The Spitzer Manuscript. The Oldest Philosophical Manuscript in Sanskrit. (Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften, 323.) 2 vols, xii, 510 pp. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004. €139.
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MAHENDRA LAWOTI: Towards a Democratic Nepal: Inclusive Political Institutions for a Multicultural Society. 345 pp. New Delhi: Sage Publications/Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point. $64.95.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 160-162
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GLEN DUDBRIDGE: Books, Tales and Vernacular Culture: Selected Papers on China. (China Studies.) xii, 325 pp. Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill, 2005. €99.
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LUDWIG ALSDORF (ed. Annegret Bollée): Vom Ganges zum Himalaya: Indologische Lehr- und Wanderjahre 1930–32. 311 pp. Bamberg: Annegret Bollée, Don-Bosco-Str. 2, D-96047 Bamberg, 2005 (privately published).
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CHRISTOPHER SHACKLE and ARVIND-PAL SINGH MANDAIR (ed. and trans.): Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh Scriptures. l, 164 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. £16.99.
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- 19 September 2006, pp. 479-481
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WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL and ERIK J. ZÜRCHER (eds): Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Labour in the Twentieth Century. viii, 235 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001. £42.
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JAMES REARDON-ANDERSON: Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward 1644–1937. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) xvii, 288 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. $60.
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IAIN GARDNER and SAMUEL N. C. LIEU: Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire. xviii, 312 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. £19.95.
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SUSAN S. WADLEY: Essays in North Indian Folk Traditions. xiii, 256 pp. New Delhi: Chronicle Books, 2005. £26.95.
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FRANK DIKÖTTER, LARS LAAMANN and ZHOU XUN: Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. xi, 319 pp. London: Hurst; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. £25.
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- 06 June 2006, pp. 338-339
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TSUEN-HSUIN TSIEN: Written on Bamboo and Silk: The Beginning of Chinese Books and Inscriptions (Second Edition). xxiv, 323 pp. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. £52.
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KARL GERTH: China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. xvi, 445 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. £32.95.
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SUSHIL MITTAL and GENE THURSBY (eds): Religions of South Asia: An Introduction. xv, 308 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. £65.
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- 19 September 2006, pp. 483-485
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