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Volume 58 - Issue 4 - November 1999

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies. By Peter Custers. London: Zed Books, 1998. 401 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).
Joyce P. Jacobsen
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26 March 2010, pp. 1163-1164
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India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years. Edited by Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg, and Dennis Kux. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999. xii, 216 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
Amit Gupta
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26 March 2010, pp. 1164-1166
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The Lives of the Jain Elders. By Hemacandra; translated by R. C. C. Fynes. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xli, 280 pp. $11.95 (paper).
John E. Cort
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26 March 2010, pp. 1166-1167
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Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. Edited by Patricia Jeffery and Amrita Basu. New York: Routledge, 1998. xi, 296 pp. $19.95 (paper).
Paola Bacchetta
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26 March 2010, pp. 1167-1168
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Econometric Applications in India. Edited by K. L. Krishna. Oxford India Themes in Economics. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxiii, 335 pp. $36.00 (cloth).
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
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26 March 2010, pp. 1169-1170
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Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus. By Apurba Kundu. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1998. viii, 230 pp. $59.50 (cloth).
Douglas M. Peers
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26 March 2010, pp. 1170-1171
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Legitimacy and Conflict in South Asia. Edited by Subrata K. Mitra and Dietmar Rothermund. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 1997. viii, 279 pp.
D. R. Sardesai
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26 March 2010, pp. 1172-1174
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Gender, Law, and Resistance in India. By Erin P. Moore. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. x, 205 pp. $32.95 (cloth).
Ann Grodzins Gold
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26 March 2010, pp. 1174-1175
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The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849–194? ’. By T. R. Moreman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xv, 258 pp. $72.00 (cloth).
Pradeep Barua
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26 March 2010, pp. 1175-1176
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Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta. Edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Lakshmi Subramanian. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. viii, 281 pp. $24.95.
I. Bruce Watson
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26 March 2010, pp. 1176-1178
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Colonial Political Economy: Recruitment and Underdevelopment in the Punjab. By Mustapha Kamal Pasha. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxii, 300 pp. $40.00.
Robert Nichols
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26 March 2010, pp. 1178-1179
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Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891—1970. By Sumathi Ramaswamy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxiii, 326 pp. $20.00 (paper).
Srilata Raman Müller
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26 March 2010, pp. 1179-1182
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Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Diaspora. By Aparna Rayaprol. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. 165 pp. $19.95 (cloth).
Sunaina Maira
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26 March 2010, pp. 1182-1183
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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India. The Bengal Jute Industry. By Samita Sen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii, 265 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
Madhavi Kale
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26 March 2010, pp. 1183-1184
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Indian Society through Personal Writings. By M. N. Srinivas. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 (First published 1996). xi, 245 pp. $13.95 (paper). - Village, Caste, Gender and Method. By M. N. Srinivas. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 (First published 1996). xvii, 244 pp. $13.95 (paper).
Lawrence A. Babb
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26 March 2010, pp. 1185-1186
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Crime, Society and the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. By Greg Bankoff. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1995. viii, 247 pp. $22.00 (paper).
Alfred W. McCoy
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26 March 2010, pp. 1186-1188
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Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand. By Katherine A. Bowie. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xx, 393 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper).
Nicola Tannenbaum
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26 March 2010, pp. 1188-1189
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New Laos, New Challenges. Edited by Jacqueline Butler-Diaz. Tempe: Program for Southeast Asian Studies at Arizona State University, 1998. xxvii, 356 pp. $19.95.
Leedom Lefferts
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26 March 2010, pp. 1189-1191
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Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines. By Fenella Cannell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $64.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Helga E. Jacobson
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26 March 2010, pp. 1191-1192
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The Vietnam War: Its History, Literature and Music. Edited by Kenton J. Clymer. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1998. x, 195 pp.
Marc Jason Gilbert
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26 March 2010, pp. 1192-1194
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Book Reviews—South Asia

Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies. By Peter Custers. London: Zed Books, 1998. 401 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years. Edited by Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg, and Dennis Kux. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999. xii, 216 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Lives of the Jain Elders. By Hemacandra; translated by R. C. C. Fynes. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xli, 280 pp. $11.95 (paper).

Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. Edited by Patricia Jeffery and Amrita Basu. New York: Routledge, 1998. xi, 296 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Econometric Applications in India. Edited by K. L. Krishna. Oxford India Themes in Economics. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxiii, 335 pp. $36.00 (cloth).

Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus. By Apurba Kundu. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1998. viii, 230 pp. $59.50 (cloth).

Legitimacy and Conflict in South Asia. Edited by Subrata K. Mitra and Dietmar Rothermund. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 1997. viii, 279 pp.

Gender, Law, and Resistance in India. By Erin P. Moore. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. x, 205 pp. $32.95 (cloth).

The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849–194? ’. By T. R. Moreman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xv, 258 pp. $72.00 (cloth).

Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta. Edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Lakshmi Subramanian. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. viii, 281 pp. $24.95.

Colonial Political Economy: Recruitment and Underdevelopment in the Punjab. By Mustapha Kamal Pasha. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxii, 300 pp. $40.00.

Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891—1970. By Sumathi Ramaswamy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxiii, 326 pp. $20.00 (paper).

Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Diaspora. By Aparna Rayaprol. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. 165 pp. $19.95 (cloth).

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India. The Bengal Jute Industry. By Samita Sen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xviii, 265 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Indian Society through Personal Writings. By M. N. Srinivas. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 (First published 1996). xi, 245 pp. $13.95 (paper). - Village, Caste, Gender and Method. By M. N. Srinivas. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 (First published 1996). xvii, 244 pp. $13.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Crime, Society and the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. By Greg Bankoff. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1995. viii, 247 pp. $22.00 (paper).

Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand. By Katherine A. Bowie. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xx, 393 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper).

New Laos, New Challenges. Edited by Jacqueline Butler-Diaz. Tempe: Program for Southeast Asian Studies at Arizona State University, 1998. xxvii, 356 pp. $19.95.

Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines. By Fenella Cannell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $64.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Vietnam War: Its History, Literature and Music. Edited by Kenton J. Clymer. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1998. x, 195 pp.

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