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Volume 1 - Issue 1 - April 1991

Book Review

Buddhism in Central Asia. By B. N. Puri. (Buddhist Traditions, Vol. IV.) pp. xiii, 352, 16 pl., map. Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1987. Rs. 165.

Europe reconsidered: perceptions of the West in nineteenth-century Bengal. By Tapan Raychaudhuri. pp. xviii, 369. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1988. £12.60.

The Punjab under imperialism, 1885–1947. By Imran Ali pp. xii, 264, 2 maps. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1988. £27.80.

Tapta Mārga: asceticism and initiation in Vedic India. By Walter O. Kaelber. pp. x, 204. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1989. US $44.50.

Histoires de poteaux: variations védique autour de la Déesse hindoue. BY Madeleine Biardeau (Publications de l'école Française d'extrême-Orient, Vol. CLIV.) pp. xii, 356, 37 pl., 10 figs, 3 maps. Paris, École Française d'extrême-Orient, 1989.

A critical edition of the Mālatīmādhava. By Michael Coulson, revised by Roderick Sinclair. pp. lxi, 280. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1989. £15.00.

Littérature orale villageoise de l'Inde du nord: chants et rites de l'enfance des pays d'Aoudh et bhojpurī. By Richard Garcia and Catherine Champion. (Publications de l'école Française d'extrême-Orient, CLIII.) pp. 330. illus., map. Paris, École Française de'extrême-Orient, 1989.

Poems to Śiva: the hymns of the Tamil saints. By Indira Viswanathan Peterson. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. xvi, 282, 15 pl., map. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1989. US $50.00.

Reduplizierte Verbstämme im Tamil. By Thomas Malten. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 127.) pp. ix, 283. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1989. DM 58.

Temples of South India. (A Study of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Monuments of The Deccan.) By J. Ramanaiah. pp. xxiii, 358, 148 illus. New Delhi, Concept Publishing Company, 1989. Rs. 300.

Bhadreśvar: the oldest Islamic monuments in India. By Mehrdad Shokoohy, with contributions by Manijah Bayani-Wolpert and Natalie H. Shokoohy. (Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture. Supplements to Muqarnas, Vol. II.) pp. 65, 58 pl., 42 figs. Leiden, etc., E. J. Brill, 1988. Dfl. 72 or US $ 36.00.

The Penguin guide to the monuments of India. Vol. i: Buddhist, Jain, Hindu. By George Michell. pp. 518, illus. with photographs, maps, diagrams. VOL. II: ISLAMIC, RAJPUT, EUROPEAN. By Philip Davies. pp. 605, illus. with photographs, maps, diagrams. London, Viking, 1989. £30.00 each.

The Nāykhĩbājā of Bhaktapur: studies in newar drumming, ii. By Gert-Mathias Wegner. (Nepal Research Centre Publications, No. 13.) pp. 109, 52 illus., 2 maps. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1988. DM 40.

A bibliography of Ladakh. By John Bray With Nawang Tsering Shakspo. pp. 153. Warminster, Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1988. £17.50.

A guide to the manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to South and Southeast Asia. Vol. i. London. Vol 2. British Isles excluding London. Compiled by J. D. Pearson. pp. vii, 319; xiii, 337. London, Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1989 and 1990. £60.00 and £70.00.

Pagan: art and architecture of old Burma. By Paul Strachan. pp. x, 159, illus. in col. and bl. and wh. Arran, Scotland, Kiscadale Publications, 1989. £35.00.

Capital Accumulation in Thailand, 1855–1985. By Suehiro Akira. pp. xviii, 427, 2 maps. Tokyo, The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1989. US $34.66.

Le roman classique Lao. By Anatole-Roger Peltier. (Publications de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. CLII.) pp. xvii, 676, 2 maps. Paris, École Française d'Extrêlme-Orient, 1988.

Nouvelles inscriptions du Cambodge I. Translated and Edited By Saveros Pou. (Collection de Textes et Documents sur l'lndochine, XVII.) pp. 155, 31 pl. Paris, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1989.

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