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Volume 39 - August 1980

Book Reviews—Korea

U.S. Policy Toward Korea: Analysis, Alternatives, and Recommendations. By Nathan N. White. Boulder: Westview Press (A Westview Replica Edition), 1979. ix, 220 pp. Appendix, Figures, Exhibits. $17.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

In Defense of the Irrational Peasant: Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution. By Kusum Nair. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. xxi, 154 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $17.00.

Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. Vol. II: Indian Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Tradition of Nyāya-Vaiśesika up to Gangeśa. Edited by K. H. Potter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. xiii, 744 pp. Notes, Index. $30.00.

The Indian Nationalist Movement, 1885–1947: Select. Edited by B. N. Pandey. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. xxiii, 272 pp. Appendixes, Index. $19.95.

Hindu Epics, Myths and Legends in Popular Illustrations. By Vassilis G. Vitsaxis. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1977. xii, 98 pp. Plates. Rs. 50.00; $9.50.

“Language” in Indian Philosophy and Religion. Edited by Harold G. Coward. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press (SR Supplements No. 5), 1978. x, 93 pp. $4.00 (paper).

The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empire: Dissolution of a Patron-Client System, 1914–1939. By Barbara N. Ramusack. Columbus: Ohio State University Press for the University of Cincinnati, 1978. xxii, 322 pp. Glossary, List of Persons, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $20.00.

Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects. By Joan P. Mencher. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1978. xxi, 314 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $14.95.

Prehistory of India. By H. D. Sankalia. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1977. (Distributed in the U.S. by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.) xvi, 211 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Figures, Appendix, Glossary, Select Bibliography, Index. $ 11.00.

The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1926–34: A Study in Imperfect Mobilization. By Gyanendra Pandey. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. xvi, 245 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $11.95.

Nepalese Temple Architecture: Its Characteristics and Its Relations to Indian Development. By Ulrich Wiesner. Leiden: E. J. Brill (Studies in South Asian Culture No. 8), 1978. xii, 115 pp. Bibliography, Index of Proper Names, Index of Geographical Names, Plates. D. Glds. 68.

The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism. By Rune E. A. Johansson. London: Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 37), 1979. References, Index of technical terms, Index of quotations from Nikāya texts. £4.75 (paper).

Dimensions of Social Change in India. Edited by M. N. Srinivas, S. Seshaiah, and V. S. Parthasarathy. New Delhi: South Asia Books, 1978. xiv, 518 pp. Map, Tables, Charts, Index. $15.00.

Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929–1950. Four volumes. Edited with an introduction by Michael Roberts. Colombo: Department of National Archives, 1977. ccxxii, 3208 pp. Notes, Bibliography. N.p.l.

India's Political Economy, 1947–1977: The Gradual Revolution. By Francine R. Frankel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xiv, 600 pp. Bibliography, Index. $35.00 (cloth); $12.50 (paper).

Caste in Contemporary India: Beyond Organic Solidarity. By Pauline Kolenda. Menlo Park, Calif.: The Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., 1978. viii, 181 pp. References, Subject Index, Authors Index, Index of Caste and Tribe Names. $4.95.

Modern Sri Lanka: A Society in Transition. Edited by Tissa Fernando and Robert Kearney. Syracuse: Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Foreign and Comparative Studies, South Asian Series No. 4), 1979. viii, 297 pp. Index. $7.50.

The Aboriginal Tribes of India. By Stephen Fuchs. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. vi, 308 pp. Index of Subjects, Authors, and Tribes. $14.95.

Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real: Buddhist Meditation and the Middle View. From the Lam rim Chen mo of Tson-kha-pa. Translated by Alex Wayman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. xii, 512 pp. Notes, Glossaries, Bibliography, Index. $25.50.

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