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Volume 39 - Issue 2 - February 1980

Book Reviews—Japan

Japanese Linked Poetry: An Account with Translations of Renga and Haikai Sequences. By Earl Miner, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xxiv, 376 pp. Abbreviated References and Other Explanations, Glossary, Index. $20.00.

The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature. By Hisaaki Yamanouchi, London, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1978. x, 214 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $21.00.

A Certain Woman. By Arishima Takeo, Translated by Kenneth Strong. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1978. 382 pp. Introduction, Notes on Personal Titles, Translation. $19.50.

The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931–1945. By Saburō Ienaga, Translated by Frank Baldwin. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.xvi, 317 pp. Notes, Index. $10.00.

Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1868. By Susan Hanley and Kozo Yamamura, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. xiii, 409 pp. Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Notes, Index. $27.50 (cloth); $11.75 (paper).

Patterns of Japanese Policymaking: Experiences from Higher Education. By T. J. Pempel, Boulder: Westview Press, 1978. xiii, 248 pp. Tables, Figures, Notes, Index. $16.00.

Japan as Number One: Lessons for America. By Ezra F. Vogel, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. xi, 272 pp. Bibliography, Index. $12.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Concept of Duty in South Asia.Edited by Wendy O'Flaherty and J. Duncan M. Derrett, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1978. xxii, 240 pp. Index. $11.00.

Language and Civilization Change in South Asia.Edited by Clarence Maloney, Leiden: E. J. Brill (Contributions to Asian Studies No. 11), 1978. 182 pp. D.Glds. 72.

South Asian Bibliography: A Handbook and Guide Compiled by the South Asia Library Group. General editor, J. D. Pearson, Hassocks, Sussex: Harvester Press; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1979. xiii, 381 pp. Index, $87.50.

Tradition and Politics in South Asia.Edited by R. J. Moore, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1979. xxv, 266 pp. Index. $18.50. (Distributed in the U.S. by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.)

Bāṁlā Bhāṣāy Islāmī Pustaker Tālikā [Catalogue of Islamic books in the Bengali language].Compiled by M. Abdur Razzaque, Dacca: Islamic Foundation, 1977. ii, 194 pp. Appendixes. Tk. 8.00.

The Medium in the Rgveda. By J. Gonda, Leiden: E. J. Brill (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina No. 24), 1979. vi, 202 pp. General Index, Index to Sanskrit Roots and Words. D.Glds. 80.

Indian Mediaeval Sculpture. By Aschwin de Lippe, Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., 1978. xxiii, 411 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $64.50.

Early Stone Temples of Orissa. By Vidya Dehejia, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1979. vii, 217 pp. Appendix, Notes, Glossary, Select Bibliography, Index. $24.95.

The Cleveland Museum of Art's Ṭūṭī-nāma: Tales of a Parrot. By iyā'u'ddīn Nakhshabī, Translated and edited by Muhammed A. Simsar. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. xxiv, 339 pp. Color Plates, Bibliography. $45.00. (Distributed by Indiana University Press.)

Kabir: The Apostle of Hindu-Muslim Unity: Interaction of Hindu-Muslim Ideas in the Formation of the Bhakti Movement with Special Reference to Kabīr, the Bhakta. By Muhammad Hedayetullah, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. xxiv, 320 pp. Notes, Bibliography. Rs. 60.00.

Sufis of Bijapur, 1300–1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India. By Richard Maxwell Eaton, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978. xxiv, 358 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $25.00.

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660–1760. By K. N. Chaudhuri, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. xviii, 629 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography. Notes, Index. $84.50.

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