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Volume 44 - Issue 4 - August 1985

Book Reviews—South Asia

Sri Lanka: The National Question and the Tamil Liberation Struggle. By Satchi Ponnambalam. London: Zed Books, 1983. xxii, 273 pp. Maps, Glossary, Chronology, Statistical and Documentary Appendix, Select Bibliography, Tables. $30.

Legislative Politics and the Freedom Struggle in the Punjab, 1897–1947. By Satya M. Rai. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research, 1984. xviii, 373 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Rs 100.

On Music and Musicians of Hindoostan. By Ashok D. Ranade. New Delhi: Promila, 1984. 208 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Index. $32.50. (Distributed in the U.S. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)

Śiva dans le Mahābhārata. By Jacques Scheuer. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1982. 376 pp. Bibliography, Index. Fr 180.

Fires of Love, Waters of Peace: Passion and Renunciation in Indian Culture. By Lee Siegel. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. xi, 109 pp. Notes. $12.50.

The Imperial Imagination: Magic and Myth in Kipling's India. By Lewis D. Wurgaft. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. xxiii, 211 pp. Illustrations, Note on Sources, Chapter Notes, Index. $24.95.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Children's Play and Games in Rural Thailand: A Study in Acculturation and Socialization. By Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, Social Research Institute, 1980. 395 pp. Index, Bibliography, Maps, Figures, Plates. N.p.

Completing a Stewardship: The Malayan Civil Service, 1942–1957. By Robert Heussler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1983. (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, no. 15). xvii, 240 pp. Notes, Index, Bibliography, Plates, Maps. $37.50.

Cambodian-English Glossary. By Franklin E. Huffman and Im Proum. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977. $11 (paper).

Teaching Grammar of Thai. By William Kuo. Washington, D.C. and Berkeley, Calif.: University Press of America and the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, 1982. xiv, 469 pp. List of Abbreviations, Appendix. $29.25 (cloth); $17.75 (paper).

Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia. By Carol Laderman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xiii, 267 pp. Figures, Tables, Illustrations, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography. $32.50.

Folk Tales from Kammu-III: Pearls of Kammu Literature. Edited by Kristina Lindell, Jan-Ojvind Swahn, and Damrong Tayanin. London: Curzon Press, 1984. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, no. 51.) lxiii, 325 pp. Bibliography, Notes. N.p.

Aesthetic Tradition and Cultural Transition in Java and Bali. Edited by Stephanie Morgan and Laurie Jo Sears. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1984. (Monograph Series, no. 2.) xviii, 315 pp. Maps, Charts, Figures, Illustrations. $12.50 (paper).

Prosperity Without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Progress in the Colonial Philippines. By Norman G. Owen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xxii, 312 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Glossary, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $30.

Die Kulturen Kontinental-Südostasiens [The Cultures of Continental Southeast Asia]. By Manuel Sarkisyanz. Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1979. 160 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Index, Bibliography. N.p.

Chinese Society in Rural Malaysia: A Local History of the Chinese in Titi, Jelebu. By Laurence K. L. Siaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 197 pp. Preface, Photograph, Map, Table, Bibliography, Index. $37.50.

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