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Volume 56 - August 1997

Book Review

Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919–1937. By Jun Xing. Bethlehem, Penn.: Lehigh University Press, 1996. 238 pp. $39.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India; Bihar, 1733–1820. By Kumkum Chatterjee. Leiden: EJ. Brill, xii, 273 pp. $89.25 (cloth).

Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India. By Steve Derné. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xiii, 232 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919–1937. By Jun Xing. Bethlehem, Penn.: Lehigh University Press, 1996. 238 pp. $39.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. Edited by Lawrence A. Babb and Susan S. Wadley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. ix, 298 pp. $36.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Religious World of Kirtī Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka. By John Clifford Holt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. x, 147 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire c. 1710–1780. By Jos J. L. Gommans. Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1995. xviii, 219 pp. $77.00 (cloth).

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Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China. By Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. viii, 370 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Of Woman Caste: The Experience of Gender in Rural India. By Anjali Bagwe. London: Zed, 1995. xii, 245 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

India's Rise to Power in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. By Sandy Gordon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xxi, 414 pp. $59-95 (cloth).

Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language. Edited by Jan E. M. Houben. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. x, 501 pp. $158.25 (cloth).

Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India. By Stephanie W. Jamison. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 340 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).

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Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China. By Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. viii, 370 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal. Edited by Partha Chatterjee. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Perspectives in Social Sciences Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. xii, 220 pp. $57.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

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Regional Powers and Small State Security: India and Sri Lanka, 1977–90. By K. M. de Silva. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. xvii, 388 pp. $48.50 (cloth).

Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel. By Inderpal Grewal. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. x, 286 pp. $45.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

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