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Volume 35 - February 1972

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M. A. Laird (ed.): Bishop Heber in northern India: selections from Heber's journal.(The European Understanding of India.) X, 324 pp., front.

W. H. Sleeman: Sleeman in Oudh: an abridgement of… A journey through the kingdom of Oude in 1849–50. Edited with an introduction and notes by P. D. Reeves. (The European Understanding of India.) xii, 329 pp., front., 2 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. £6.40.

H. M. Lambert: Gujarati language course, xvii, 309 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. £3.40.

David G. Mandelbaum: Society in India. 2 vols.: xii, 323, 37, 14 pp.; ix, 325–665, 37, 14 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1970. $20. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £9.50.)

Mildred Archeb: British drawings in the India Office Library. (Common-wealth Office.) 2 vols.: xvii, 364 pp., front., 56 plates; xiii, 365–712 pp., front., 64 plates. London: H.M.S.O., 1969. £7.

K. Ishwaran (ed.): Change and continuity in India's villages. (Southern Asian Institute Series.) [xi], 296 pp. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1970. $11, 99s.

John Irwin and Katharine B. Brett: Origins of chintz; with a catalogue of Indo-European cotton-paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, viii, 134 pp., 166 plates. London: H.M.S.O., 1970. £5.

Bimanbehari Majumdar: Kṛṣṇa in history and legend. (Centre of Advanced Study in Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta. Lectures and Seminars, No. III-A (Lectures).) xv, 307 pp. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1969. Rs. 20.

Leo E. Rose: Nepal: strategy for survival, xiii, 310 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1971. $10. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £4.75.)

Richard F. Gombrich: Precept and practice: traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon, xiv, 366 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. £4.

V. G. Kiernan (tr.): Poems by Faiz. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Pakistan Series.) 288 pp. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1971. £3.75.

J. J. Saunders: The history of the Mongol conquests. xix, 275 pp., 4 plates. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971. £3.15.

Daniel Schlumberger: L'Orient hellénisé: l'art grec et ses héritiers dans l'Asie non méditerranéenne. (L'Art dans le Monde: fondements historiques, sociologiques et religieux. Civilisations europeennes.) 247 pp. Paris: Editions Albin Michel, [1970]. Fr. 52.40.

D. A. Ol'derogge (ed.): Strany i narody Vostoka. Vyp. x. Srednyaya i tsentral'naya Aziya: geografiya, étnografiya, istoriya. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Geograficheskoye Obshchestvo SSSR. Vostochnaya Komissiya.) 292 pp. + errata sheet. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka’, 1971. Rbls. 1.80.

Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui: History of Sher Shah Sur. [vii], 171 pp., map. Aligarh, etc.: P. C. Dwadash Shreni and Co. (Pvt.) Ltd., 1971. Rs. 30.

Matthias Hermanns: Schamanen-Pseudoschamanen, Erlöser und Heilbringer: eine vergleichende Studie religiöser Urphänomene. 3 vols.: xxii, 705 pp.; ix, 346 pp.; ix, 240 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1970. DM 116.

Joseph Needham: Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 4. Physics and physical technology. Pt. III: Civil engineering and nautics. lvii, 931 pp., 162 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. £18.

Suresh Chandra Ghosh: The social condition of the British community in Bengal, 1757–1800. x, 205 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970. Guilders 48.

Ruth Fuller Sasaki and others (tr.): The recorded sayings of layman P'ang: a ninth-century Zen classic. Translated from the Chinese by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Yoshitaka Iriya, Dana R. Fraser. 109 pp., front., 5 plates. New York, Tokyo: Weatherhill1971 $5. (Distributed in G.B. by Phaidon Press.)

Herrlee G. Creel: The origins of statecraft in China. Vol. one. The Western Ghou empire, xiv, 559 pp., 2 maps. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970. $17.50, £7 18s.

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