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H. von Stietencron et al. (ed.), Epic and Puranic Bibliography (up to 1985) annotated and with indexes, two volumes, Purana Research Publications Volume, 1–2 (Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1992), LS, 2116 pp. Liz Wilson, Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996), xvii + 258 pp. US$19.95. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Jean‐Francois Salles (edsj, Tradition and Archaeology, Early Maritime Contacts in the Indian Ocean (New Delhi, Manohar, 1996), ix + 338 pp., illustrations, maps. Anthony S. Bennell, The Making of Arthur Wellesley (London, Sangam Books [Orient Longman], 1997), 235 pp. £17.95. Michael H. Fisher (ed.), The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth‐Century Journey through India (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1997), 229 pp. Seema Alavi, The Sepoy and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770–1830 (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1995), xvi + 315 pp. Rs 390. P.S. Gourgey, The Indian Naval Revolt of 1946 (London, Sangam Books, 1996), vi + 66 pp. £2.95. Peter Robb, Ancient Rights and Future Comforts: Bihar, The Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India (London, Curzon Press), xxviii + 378 pp. Richard Lannoy, Anandamayi: Her Life and Wisdom (Shaftesbury, Dorset, Element, 1996), 160 pp. US$30; UK£20. A.K. Damodaran, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Communicator and Democratic Leader. (Sangam Books, London) pp. xiii + 382. £17.95. Alex McKay, Tibet and the British Raj: the Frontier Cadre 1904–1947 (London, Curzon, 1997), xxvii + 293pp. Neville A. Kirkwood, Independent India's Troubled Northeast, 1952–69: An Australian Missionary's Story, Australians in Asia Series No. 17 (Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Faculty of Asian and international Studies, Griffith University, 1996), x + 85 pp. Gail Omvedt, Dalit Visions: The anti‐caste movement and the construction of an Indian identity, Tracts for the Times (London, Sangam Books, 1995), 110 pp. Hermann Kreutzmann, Ethnizitat im Entwicklungsprozefi. Die Wakhi in Hochasien (Berlin, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1996), XV + 488 pp. DM 98. James Brow, Demons and Development: The Struggle for Community in a Sri Lankan Village (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1996), 218 pp. $US45. Sumantra Bose, The Challenge in Kashmir: Democracy, Self‐Determination and a Just Peace (New Delhi, Sage, 1997), 206 pp. Rs 125. David French and Michael Richards (eds), Contemporary Television: Eastern Perspectives (New Delhi, Sage, 1996), 371 pp. Rs 305. Marshall Wolfe, Elusive Development (New Delhi, Vistaar, 1996), 199 pp. M. Chattopadhyay, P. Maiti and M. Rakshit (eds), Planning and Economic Policy in India: Evaluations and Lessons for the Future, (New Delhi, Sage, 1996), 215 pp. Rs 275 (cloth) Rs 175 (paper). Bimal Jalan, India's Economic Policy: Preparing for the Twenty‐first Century (New Delhi, Penguin Books, 1996), 217 pp. Barbara Harriss‐White, A Political Economy of Agricultural Markets in South India: Masters of the Countryside (New Delhi, Sage, 1996). Peter Knorringa, Economics of Collaboration: Indian Shoemakers between Market and Hierarchy (New Delhi, Sage, 1996). Shekhtar Mehta, Sudipto Mundle and U. Shankar, Controlling Pollution: Incentives and Regulations (New Delhi, Sage, 1997), 153 pp. Rs 250. C. H. Hanumantha Rao and H. Linnemann (eds), Economic Reforms and Poverty Alleviation in India (New Delhi, Sage, 1996), 271 pp. Rs 350 (cloth), Rs 195 (paper). Sumi Krishna, Environmental Politics: People's Lives and Development Choices (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1996), 303 pp. Ashish Kothari, Neena Singh (eds), Saloni Suri, People and Protected Areas: Towards Participatory Conservation in India (New Delhi, Sage, 1996) 275 pp. Pieter Goiter, Small Industrialists, Big Ambitions: Economic and Political Networks on a Large Industrial Estate in West India (Delhi, Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). Mario Rutten and Carol Upadhya (eds) Small Business Entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe: Towards a Comparative Perspective (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1997) 335 pp., Rs. 395. Korrie de Koning and Marion Martin (eds), Participatory Research in Health: Issues and Experiences (New Delhi, Vistaar, 1996), xiii + 242 pp. Rs 295. The World Bank, Bangladesh, Trade Policy Reform for Improving the Incentive Regime (Dhaka, Bangladesh, The World Bank, 1996). R. A. Warrick and Q. K. Ahmad (eds), The Implications of Climate and Sea‐Level Change for Bangladesh (Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996), xiv + 415 pp. AUD$ 186.50. Bharat Gupt (trans.) The Natyasastra, Chapter 28: Ancient Scales of Indian Music with Sanjivanam Commentary of Acarya Brhaspati (New Delhi, Brhaspati Publications, 1996), xxvii + 203 pp. Rs. 320. Kate Brittlebank, Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and Kingship in a Hindu Domain (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997), 184 pp., Rs450 P. J. O. Taylor (gen. ed.), A Companion to the ‘Indian Mutiny’ of 1857 (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996), x + 415 pp. A$160.