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Pius Malekandathil, The Germans, the Portuguese and India (Periplus Parerga no. 6 (Munster, LIT, 1999), pp. X + 136. Geoffrey A. Oddie, Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto‐Nationalism: James Long of Bengal 1814–87 (Richmond, Curzon, 1999), 261 pp., £40.00. Gerald Studdert‐Kennedy, Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism (Sage, 1998). L., Mani, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1998), 260 pp., US$47 cloth, US$18 paper. 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, b & w illustrations, n.p.g. D. Pfaff‐Czarnecka, Rajasingham‐Seanayake, A. Darini, and E. Gomez, Ethnic Futures: The State and Identity Politics in Asia (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1999), 209 pp. Rs 350 cloth, Rs 195 paper. Ian Talbot, Freedom's Cry: The Popular Dimension in the Pakistan Movement and Partition Experience in North‐West India (Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 246. Price: UK 10 shillings. Bhikhu Parekh, Colonialism, Tradition and Reform: An Analysis of Gandhi's Political Discourse (New Delhi, Sage, 1999 (revised edition), 359 pp, Rs. 295 (paperback) Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik, New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament (Oxford, Signal Books, 2000), 312pp., £12.99. Bhargavi V. Davar, Mental Health of Indian Women: A Feminist Agenda (New Delhi, Sage, 1999) Amiya Kumar Bagchi (ed.), Economy and Organization: Indian Institutions Under The Neoliberal Regime (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1999), 427 pp., Rs. 495. Arvind Kumar and Kusum Kumar, Parallel Dictionary Hindi Thesaurus (New Delhi, National Book Trust, 1996), 2 vols, 1768pp., Rs.400.