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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Report and Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 2003
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09 November 2004, pp. 307-319
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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland is a Charity registered with the Charity Commissioners under Registration Number 209629.
The address of the Society is 60 Queen's Gardens, London W2 3AF.

Royal Asiatic Society Honorary Treasurer's Report to the 2004 AGM
C. C. F. Naylor
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09 November 2004, pp. 320-322
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The Council's report and the accounts, which you have before you, cover a year in which the charitable activities of the Society continued in a manner broadly comparable with the past. As usual I am going to draw your attention to certain significant financial aspects and not go through all the detail.

The Roots of Tantra. Edited by Katherine Anne Harper and Robert L. Brown. pp. ix, 270. SUNY Series in Tantric Studies. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2002.
Christian K. Wedemeyer
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08 September 2004, pp. 138-140
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The Stories of the Prophets. By Ibn Muṭarrif Al-Ṭarafī. Edited with an introduction and notes by Roberto Tottoli. pp. ii, 132 English, pp. 200 Arabic. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 253. Berlin, Klaus Schawz Verlag, 2003.
Lawrence I. Conrad
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09 November 2004, pp. 265-266
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The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India. By S. B. Abbas. pp. 209. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2003.
Wendy Dunleavy
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08 September 2004, pp. 140-141
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Measures and Weights in the Islamic World. By Walther Hinz. Translated by M. Ismail Marcinkowski, with Forward by C. E. Bosworth. pp. xxii, 98. Kuala Lumpur, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation, International Islamic University, 2003.
Lawrence I. Conrad
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09 November 2004, pp. 266-267
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Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756–1895. By Paul C. Winther. pp. xviii, 427. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2003.
David Arnold
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08 September 2004, pp. 141-143
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Al-Jāḥiẓ. The Book of Misers, Al-Bukhalā'. Translated by R. B. Serjeant, reviewed by Ezzeddin Ibrahim. (Great Books of Islamic Civilization). pp. xx, 259. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 2000.
Lawrence I. Conrad
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09 November 2004, pp. 267-269
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Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia. By Janice Leoshko. pp. 169, 59 maps and illustrations. Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003.
Jennifer Howes
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08 September 2004, pp. 143-146
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Pour une Histoire de la Sérinde: le Manichéisme Parmi les Peuples et Religions D'asie Centrale D'après les Sources Primaire. By Xavier Tremblay. pp. vi, 337, map. Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001.
Jason BeDuhn
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09 November 2004, pp. 269-273
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Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850–1900. Edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari. pp. 343, 183 figs. Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 2003.
George Michell
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08 September 2004, pp. 146-148
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Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Asia. By P. Marcel Kurpershoek. Vol. IV (A Saudi Tribal History – Honour and Faith in the Traditions of the Dawāsir). pp. xxx, 1001. Leiden, Brill, 2002.
Clive Holes
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09 November 2004, pp. 273-276
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The Last Man: The Life and Times of Surgeon Major Brydon, CB. By John C. Cunningham. pp. 347, illus, maps, index. Oxford, New Cherwell Press, 2003.
David Murphy
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08 September 2004, pp. 148-150
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Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency and Empire. By Purnima Bose. pp. xi, 278. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2003.
Antony Copley
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08 September 2004, pp. 150-151
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Early Buddhism: A New Approach. The I of the beholder. By Sue Hamilton. pp. xi, 233. Richmond, Curzon, 2000.
Dermot Killingley
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09 November 2004, pp. 276-277
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Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain. Transplantation, Development and Adaptation (RoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism). By David N. Kay. pp. xvi,260. London & New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Karel Werner
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09 November 2004, pp. 277-280
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Congress Politics in Bengal, 1919–39. By Srilata Chatterjee. pp. vii, 253. Wimbledon, Anthem Press, 2002.
Antony Copley
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08 September 2004, pp. 151-152
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The Iconography of Hindu Tantric Deities. By Gudrun Bühnemann. 2 volumes (The Pantheon of the Mantramahodadhi and The Pantheons of the Prapañcasāra and Śāradātilaka). pp.280 & pp. 389. Gonda Indological Series IX. Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 2000 and 2001.
Christian K. Wedemeyer
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09 November 2004, pp. 280-282
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Nobodies to Somebodies – The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka. By Kumari Jayawardena. pp. 416. London, Zed Books, 2003.
Markus Daechsel
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08 September 2004, pp. 153-155
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Essays in Jaina Philosophy and Religion. Edited by Piotr Balcerowicz and Marek Mejor. (Warsaw Indological Studies; Vol 2, 2002). First Indian Edition (Lala Sundarlal Jain Research Series; Vol XX). pp. 306. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2003.
Paul Marett
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09 November 2004, pp. 282-284
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The Roots of Tantra. Edited by Katherine Anne Harper and Robert L. Brown. pp. ix, 270. SUNY Series in Tantric Studies. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2002.

The Stories of the Prophets. By Ibn Muṭarrif Al-Ṭarafī. Edited with an introduction and notes by Roberto Tottoli. pp. ii, 132 English, pp. 200 Arabic. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 253. Berlin, Klaus Schawz Verlag, 2003.

The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India. By S. B. Abbas. pp. 209. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2003.

Measures and Weights in the Islamic World. By Walther Hinz. Translated by M. Ismail Marcinkowski, with Forward by C. E. Bosworth. pp. xxii, 98. Kuala Lumpur, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation, International Islamic University, 2003.

Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756–1895. By Paul C. Winther. pp. xviii, 427. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2003.

Al-Jāḥiẓ. The Book of Misers, Al-Bukhalā'. Translated by R. B. Serjeant, reviewed by Ezzeddin Ibrahim. (Great Books of Islamic Civilization). pp. xx, 259. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 2000.

Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia. By Janice Leoshko. pp. 169, 59 maps and illustrations. Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003.

Pour une Histoire de la Sérinde: le Manichéisme Parmi les Peuples et Religions D'asie Centrale D'après les Sources Primaire. By Xavier Tremblay. pp. vi, 337, map. Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001.

Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850–1900. Edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari. pp. 343, 183 figs. Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 2003.

Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Asia. By P. Marcel Kurpershoek. Vol. IV (A Saudi Tribal History – Honour and Faith in the Traditions of the Dawāsir). pp. xxx, 1001. Leiden, Brill, 2002.

The Last Man: The Life and Times of Surgeon Major Brydon, CB. By John C. Cunningham. pp. 347, illus, maps, index. Oxford, New Cherwell Press, 2003.

Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency and Empire. By Purnima Bose. pp. xi, 278. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2003.

Early Buddhism: A New Approach. The I of the beholder. By Sue Hamilton. pp. xi, 233. Richmond, Curzon, 2000.

Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain. Transplantation, Development and Adaptation (RoutledgeCurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism). By David N. Kay. pp. xvi,260. London & New York, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Congress Politics in Bengal, 1919–39. By Srilata Chatterjee. pp. vii, 253. Wimbledon, Anthem Press, 2002.

The Iconography of Hindu Tantric Deities. By Gudrun Bühnemann. 2 volumes (The Pantheon of the Mantramahodadhi and The Pantheons of the Prapañcasāra and Śāradātilaka). pp.280 & pp. 389. Gonda Indological Series IX. Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 2000 and 2001.

Nobodies to Somebodies – The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka. By Kumari Jayawardena. pp. 416. London, Zed Books, 2003.

Essays in Jaina Philosophy and Religion. Edited by Piotr Balcerowicz and Marek Mejor. (Warsaw Indological Studies; Vol 2, 2002). First Indian Edition (Lala Sundarlal Jain Research Series; Vol XX). pp. 306. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2003.

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