Book Reviews—South Asia
Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Community. By Shail Mayaram. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xiv, 298 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 869-871
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Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and Kingship in a Hindu Domain. By Kate Brittlebank. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxii, 184 pp. Rs. 450 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 541-543
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Just Development: Beyond Adjustment with a Human Face. Edited by Tariq J. Banuri Shahrukh Rafi Khan, and Moazam Mahmood. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xv, 207 pp. $27.00 (cloth). - Who Needs Credit? Poverty and Finance in Bangladesh. Edited by Geoffrey D. Wood and Iffath A. Sharif. London: Zed Books, 1997. $62.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 225-227
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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).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1170-1171
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Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh. By Arthur F. Buehler. Foreword by Annermarie Schimmel. Studies in Comparative Religion. Frederick M. Denny, Series Editor. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. xxvii, 312 pp.
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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.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1172-1174
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Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition. By Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xiii, 274 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).
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Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights. By Sudhir Chandra. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiii, 249 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 543-544
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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).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1174-1175
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The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley. Edited by Jean Dreze, Meera Samson, and Satyajit Singh. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 339 pp. $32.00 (cloth).
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The Decline of the Bengal Zamindars: Midnapore, 1870–1920. By Chitta Panda. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxi, 231 pp. $24.95 (cloth). - Cotton and Famine in Berur, 1850–1900. By Laxman D. Satya. New Delhi: Manohar, 1997. 344 pp.
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Death Before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Babu. Edited and translated by Jamal J. Elias. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. ix, 145 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 544-545
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Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era. By Michael N. Pearson. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x, 202 pp. $35.95 (cloth).
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Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity and Power among a Central Indian Community, 1780–1950. By Saurabh Dube. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xviii, 308 pp. $23.95 (paper).
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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).
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Living Martyrs: Individuals and Revolution in Nepal. By James F. Fisher with Tanka Prasad Acharya and Rewanta Kumari Acharya. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 546-547
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Indian Music and the West. By Gerry Farrell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xi, 241 pp. $60.00(cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 232-233
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Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction. By M. Madhava Prasad. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 258 pp. $24.95 (cloth). - Pakistan Cinema, 1947–1997. By Mushtaq Gazdar. The Jubilee Series. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 356 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
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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.
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Switching Channels. Ideologies of Television in India. By Nilanjana Gupta. New Delhi: Oxford, 1998. xiii, 155 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 547-548
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