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Volume 6 - April 1996

Book Review

The art of the Saljūqs in Iran and Anatolia. Proceedings of a symposium held in Edinburgh in 1982. Edited by Robert Hillenbrand. (Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 4.) pp. xxii, 319, 313 illus. Costa Mesa, Calif., Mazda Publishers, 1994.

The Ruhela chieftaincies. The rise and fall of Ruhela in India in the eighteenth century. By Iqbal Husain. pp. xii, 253, 3 maps, errata slip. Aligarh, Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University; Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1994. Rs. 250, £12.95.

Iranians in Achaemenid Babylonia. By Muhammad A. Dandamayev. (Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies, No. 6.) pp. xi, 241. Costa Mesa, Calif, and New York, Mazda Publishers in association with Bibliotheca Persica, 1992. US $35.00.

Religious traditions at Vijayanagara as revealed through its monuments. By Anila Verghese. (Vijayanagara Research Project Monograph Series, Vol. 4.) pp. xiii, 285, 59 pl., 21 figs., 25 maps. New Delhi, Manohar and the American Institute of Indian Studies, 1995. Rs 750.

Dualism in Transformation. Varieties of religion in Sasanian Iran. By Shaul Shared. (Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, XVI.) pp. vi, 176. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1994, £25.00.

The Ilberts in India 1882–1886. An imperial miniature. By Mary Bennett, pp. xii, 204, front., 26 illus., 2 maps, London, British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 1995. £9.00.

Episodes in the life of Akbar. Contemporary records and reminiscences. Translated and edited by Shireen Moosvi. pp. xv, 133, 7 col., 1 bl. and wh. illus. New Delhi, National Book Trust, India, 1994. Rs. 45.00.

Contemporary Zoroastrians: an unstructed nation. By Rashna Writer, pp. xii, 279. Lanham, Maryland etc., University Press of America, 1994. US $42.50.

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier 1204–1760. By Richard M. Eaton. (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 17.) pp. xxvii, 359, 24 figs, 6 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1993. $50.00.

Aśoka, the righteous: a definitive biography. By Ananda W. P. Gurugé. pp. xxiv, 675, 16 photos, 2 maps. Colombo, The Central Cultural Fund, Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Information, 1993.

Suhṛdyamaṅgalam. Studies in honour of Siegfried Lienhard on his 70th birthday. Edited by Mirja Juntunen, William L. Smith and Carl Suneson. pp. vi, 406, front., Stockholm, Association of Oriental Studies, 1995. SEK 450.

Nur Jahan: empress of Mughal India. By Ellison Banks Findly. pp. xii, 407, front., illus. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993. £40.00.

The military in British India: the development of British land forces in South Asia 1600–1947. By T. A. Heathcote. (Manchester History of the British Army.) pp. xvi, 288. Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 1995.

The Bodhisattvapiṭaka: its doctrines, practices and their position in Mahāyāna literature. By Ulrich Pagel. (Buddhica Britannica, Series Continua V.) pp. xvi, 478. Tring, Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1995.

Les Nātha-Yogin Et Les Upaniṣads. étude d'histoire de la littérature hindoue. By Christian Bouy. (Collége de France, Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne. Série in-8°, Fasc. 62.) pp. 146. Paris, Collège de France, Édition-Diffusion de Boccard, 1994.

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