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Vahe Baladouni and Margaret Makepeace (eds), Armenian Merchants of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: English East India Company Sources, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 88, pt. 5 (Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1998), xxxvii + 294 pp. US$22.00 Leela Dube, Women and Kinship: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and South‐East Asia (Tokyo, United Nations University Press, n.d.), 214 pp., no price. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, Paperback, 1999), pp. 289, $A34.95 S. Irudaya Rajan, U. S. Mishra and P. Sankara Sarma, India's Elderly: Burden or Challenge? (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1999), 356 pp., Rs475 Niels Brimnes, Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India (Richmond, Surrey, Curzon, 1999), Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph No. 81, viii + 280 pp., appendices, bibliography, index, n.p.g. Michael N Pearson, Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era (Baltimore and London, the John Hopkins University Press, 1998), 202 pp. Frank J. Korom (ed.), Constructing Tibetan Culture. Contemporary Perspectives, World Heritage Studies on Transnationalism and Multiculturalism (World Heritage Press, Quebec, 1997), pp. viii, 230, n.p.g. Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany, The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India (Cambridge University Press, Contemporary South Asia series, no. 4, 1998), 289 pp., npg Ijaz Hussain, Kashmir Dispute. An International Law Perspective (Islamabad, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid‐i‐Azam University, Pakistan, 1998), 309 pp. Price: US$25, Pakistan Rs450. The Lethbridge Collection Preliminary Catalog. Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection at University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, University of California, 1999), 53 pp. Arthur G. Rubinoff, The Construction of a Political Community: Integration and Identity in Goa (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998), 174 pp. Rs295 (Cloth) Children in South Asia: securing their rights (Amnesty International, Sydney, 1998), 53 pp., $A5, Index no. ASA 04/01/98 John Robert Shotton, Learning and Freedom : Policy, Pedagogy and Paradigms in Indian Education and Schooling (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998), 209 pp., Rs295 (cloth), Rs175 (paper)