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Volume 4 - November 1994

Book Review

The new Cambridge history of India. I. 5. The Mughal empire. By John F. Richards, pp. xvi, 320, 6 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £27.95.

Purāṇa perennis: reciprocity and transformation in Hindu and Jaina texts. Edited by Wendy Doniger. pp. xii, 331. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1993. US $59.50 (cloth), US $19.95 (paperback).

India served and observed. By William and Mildred Archer, pp. xviii, 153, 25 illus. Putney, London, BACSA, 1994, £9.00.

Muslims and missionaries in pre-Mutiny India. By Avril A. Powell. (London Studies on South Asia, No. 7). pp. ix, 339, map. Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1993. £35.00.

Broken promises: popular protest, Indian nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar 1935–1946. By Vinita Damodaran. pp. xii, 398, 5 maps. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. Rs 500, £18.95.

True tales of British India and the princely states. Compiled by Michael Wise, with a foreword by Alan Campbell-Johnson, pp. x, 292, 16 illus. Brighton, In Print Publishing Limited, 1993, £11.95.

Studies in early Jainism. (Selected research articles.) By Jagdishchandra Jain. pp. 241. New Delhi, Navrang. 1992. Rs. 280.

The Group of Discourses (Sutta-Nipātā). Vol. II. Revised translation with introduction and notes by K. R. Norman. (Pali Text Society Translation Series, 45.) pp. xxxviii, 413. Oxford, Pali Text Society, 1992. £24.50.

Nepal and Bhutan. Country studies. Third edition. Edited by Andrea Matles Savada. (Area Handbook Series 550–35.) pp. xxxix, 424, illus., maps. Washington D.C., Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1993.

Alien homage: Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore. By E. P. Thompson, with an appendix on Edward Thompson's “ Notebook of conversations with Rabindranath” By Uma Das Gupta. pp. ix, 175, 1 facsimile. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1993. £8.95.

A critical edition of the sGra sbyor bam po gnyis pa. An old and basic commentary onthe Mahāvyutpatti. Edited by Mie Ishikawa. (Studia Tibetica No. 18. Materials for Tibetan-Mongolian Dictionaries, Vol. 2.) pp. 137. Tokyo, The Toyo Bunko, 1990.

A very ingenious man: Claude Martin in early colonial India. By Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, pp. xiv, 241, illus. New Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. £15.95.

Nagaur: Sultanate and early Mughal history and architecture of the district of Nagaur, India. By Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy. (Royal Asiatic Society Monographs, Vol. XXVIII.) pp. 192, 56 pl., 72 figs. London, The Royal Asiatic Society, 1993. £40.00.

Ocean of eloquence: Tsong khap pa's commentary on the Yogācāra doctrine of mind. Introduced and translated by Gareth Sparham in collaboration with Shotoro Iida. (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies.) pp. xii, 260. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1993. US$12.95.

The chronology of Tibet according to the Re'u-mig of Sum-pa-mKhan-po. Translated and edited by Bireshwar Prasad Singh, foreword by Shri S. K. Jha. (Rahula Collection Series No. 3.) pp. xvi, 283. Patna, The Bihar Research Society, 1991. Rs. 750.

The new Cambridge history of India. I. 4. Architecture of Mughal India. By Catherine B. Asher. pp. xxxii, 368, 226 illus., map. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. £45.00.

The new Cambridge history of India. III: 2. Peasant labour and colonial capital: rural Bengal since 1770. By Sugata Bose. pp. xvi, 203, front., 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £24.95.

Company paintings: Indian paintings of the British period. By Mildred Archer, assisted by Graham Parlett. pp. 240, 155 col. illus., 5 bl. & wh. illus., map. London, Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, 1992., £25.00.

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