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1988; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00856408808723109

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A. R. Disney, S. Arasaratnam, Robin Jeffrey, Michael Comans, A. Treloar, Denis J. Wright, Richard Cashman, Phillip George, Robert S. Newman, Jim Masselos, J.L. McGuire, Asim Roy, Sandria B. Freitag,

Roderich Ptak, (ed.), Portuguese Asia: Aspects in History and Economic History (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries), (Stuttgart, Steiner 1987), viii + 220 pp. DM 48. Jörg Fisch, Hollands Ruhm in Asien, [Dutch Glory in Asia], (Beitrage zur Kolonial — und Uberseegeschichte. Band 34), (Stuttgart, Steiner, 1986) 17 XV, 166, illustrations DM38. W.H. Morris‐Jones, The Government and Politics of India, (Huntingdon, Eothen Press, 1987), 296 pp., £13.50 paper. E. Zelliot and M. Berntsen (ed.), The Experience of Hinduism: essays on religion in Maharashtra, (New York: SUNY, 1988), 387 pp., US $44.50. P. Bilimoria and P. Fenner (ed.), Religions and Comparative Thoughts (Essays in honour of Dr. Ian Kesarcodi‐Watson). (Delhi, Sri Satguru Publications, 1988), xxiv + 459 pp. D. B. Mokashi, Palkhi: An Indian Pilgrimage, (tr.) Philip C. Engblom, (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1987), pp. 291. Paper US$10.95 Cloth US$34.50. Joyce Lebra‐Chapman, The Rani of Jhansi. A Study in Female Heroism in India, (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1986) pp. xii + 199. US$25. B.M. Bhatia, Indian Agriculture ‐‐ a policy perspective, (New Delhi, Sage, 1988), xi + 191 pp., Rs. 140. Gilbert Etienne, Food and Poverty: India's Half Won Battle, (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1988), 268 pp. Rs. 175. Claude Markovits, Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931‐1939. The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party, (Cambridge, South Asian Studies No. 33, Cambridge University Press, 1985. Published in association with Orient Longman, Bombay), xii + 230 pp. Indian edition Rs. 180. Akinobu Kawai, "Landlords” and Imperial Rule: Change in Bengal Agrarian Society c. 1885‐1940, vols. 1‐2, South Asian Monograph 1‐1, 1‐2 (Tokyo: Institute For The Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1986‐1987) vii + 216 pp. Mushirul Hasan, A Nationalist Conscience: M.A. Ansari, the Congress and the Raj, (New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1987), xvii + 277 pp., Rs 200.00 Muzaffar Alam, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India. Awadh and the Punjab, 1707‐48, (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. xv + 363. Maps. Rs. 175. John D. Rogers, Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka, (London, Curzon Press, 1987) £14.50.