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1992; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00856409208723170

1479-0270

Katherine Prior, Douglas M. Peers, Maren Pearson, Greg Bailey, Denis Wright, Meredith Borthwick, Peter Hill, S. Arasaratnam, Ian Watson, George Oommen, David Ludden, Ian Copland, Lance Brennan, Robert W. Stern, Robin Jeffrey, J.L. McGuire, R. J. Moore, Chandar S. Sundaram, K. A. Jacques, Meg Gurry, W. C. Edmundson, Reg Henry,

Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. xvi + 297. £12.95. Dirk H. A. Kolff, Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: the Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1850 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. xv + 217. $A99. K. N. Chaudhuri, Asia before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. xviii + 477. $A170.00 (hbk), $A49.95 (pbk). Arvind Sharma (ed.), Essays on the Mahabharata (Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1991), pp. ix + 489. 280f. Tiruvalluvar, The Kural, P. S. Sundaram trans. (London, Penguin, 1990), pp.168. $A12.95. I. Julia Leslie, The Perfect Wife. The Orthodox Hindu Woman according to the Stridharma‐paddhati of Tryambakayajvan (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 394. Rs225. Richard Gombrich and Gananath Obeyesekere, Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1988), pp.xvi + 484. US$16.95 pbk. K. S. Matthew, (ed.) Studies in Maritime History, (Pondicherry, Pondicherry University, 1990), pp.200. Rose Vincent (ed.), The French in India: from Diamond Traders to Sanskrit Scholars, Latika Padgaonkar trans. (London, Sangam Books, 1990), pp. xi + 165. £14.95. James S. Duncan, The city as text: the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. xiv + 229. Dick Kooiman, Conversion and Social Equality in India. The L.M.S. in South Travancore in the 19th century (New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1989), pp. 236. Rs200. A.Satyanarayana, Andhra Peasants Under British Rule: Agrarian Relations and the Rural Economy 1900–1940 (Delhi, Manohar, 1990), pp. 160. John L. Hill (ed.), The Congress and Indian Nationalism: Historical Perspectives (London, Curzon Press, 1991), pp. vii + 354. £16. Dick Kooiman, Bombay Textile Labour (New Delhi, Manohar, 1989), pp.114. Rs100. Urmila Phadnis, Ethnicity and Nation‐Building in South Asia (New Delhi, Sage, 1989). T. K. Oommen, State and Society in India: Studies in Nation‐Building (New Delhi, Sage), pp. 225. Rs190. Paul R. Brass, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Theory and Comparison (New Delhi, Sage, 1991), pp. 358. Rs250. Atul Kohli, The State and Poverty in India: the Politics of Reform, Cambridge South Asian Studies Monograph Series (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. x + 260. Ayesha Jalal, The State of Martial Rule: The origins of Pakistan's political economy of defence (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. xi + 362. $A99. Veena Kukreja, Civil‐Military relations in South Asia: Pakistan, Bangladesh and India (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1991), pp. 306. S. U. Kodikara (ed.), South Asian Strategic Issues: Sri Lankan Perspectives (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1990), pp. 204. Rs165. V. L. B. Mendis, South Asian Association for Regional Co‐operation: Origins, Organization and Prospects (Perth, Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies, 1991) pp. 182. $A25. Gerry Rogers (ed.), Population Growth and Poverty in Rural South Asia (New Delhi, Sage, 1989). John Dargavel, Kay Dixon and Noel Semple (eds), Changing Tropical Forests‐Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Asia, Australasia and Oceania (Canberra, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU, 1988), pp. ix + 446.