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Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability by Atul Kohli (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp.420, £35.00 hardback, £13.95 paperback). The Child And The State In India by Myron Weiner (Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp.213, US$45.00 hb, US$14.95 pb). India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer by Santosh Mehrotra (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp.xvi+242, £30.00). Social Action and the Labouring Poor: An Experience by Primila Lewis (New Delhi, Vistaal Publications, 1991, pp.267, Rs. 95). India. Rebellion to Republic. Selected Writings, 1857–1990 edited by R. Jeffrey, L. Brennan, J. Masselos, P. Mayer and P. Reeves (South Asian Publications Series, No. 5. Sterling, New Delhi and Bangalore, 1990, AUD $40.00). India's Foreign Policy since 1971, by Robert W. Bradnock (Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1990, pp.128). A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society by Donald L. Horowitz (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991, pp.293, $24.95). Mauritius: Democracy and Development in the Indian Ocean by Larry W. Bowman (Aldershot, Dartmouth Publishing, 1991, pp.208, £22.50). Mandela, Tambo and the African National Congress by Sheridan Johns and R. Hunt Davies (New York, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp.353, £10.95). The Unbreakable Thread: Non‐Racialism in South Africa by Julie Frederikse (London, Zed Books, 1990, pp.294, £9.95). Transforming Settler States: Communal Conflict and Internal Security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe by Ronald Weitzer (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990, pp.278, $29.95 hb). Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya. The Dialectic of Domination by Bruce Berman (London, James Currey; Nairobi, Heinemann Kenya; Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1990, pp.479, £11.95 pb). Mau Mau. An African Crucible by Robert B. Edgerton (London, I.B. Tauris, pp.310, £14.95 hb). Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labour in Tanzania, 1919–85 by Deborah Fahy Bryceson (London, St Antony's/Macmillan series, £40). Colonialism and Development in the Contemporary World edited by C. Dixon and M. Heffernan (London, Mansell, 1991, pp. 232, £35). Charity Politics and the Third World, by Peter J. Burnell (Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991, pp. 314, £37.50). Radical Mandarin: The Memoirs of Escott Reid (University of Toronto Press, 1990, pp. 392, £24). Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution by Robert C. Vipond (State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y., 1991, pp.249, $14.95). Images of a Constitution by William E. Conklin (Toronto, Buffalo, London, University of Toronto Press, 1989, pp.365, $Cdn 45.00). A Meech Lake Post-Mortem, by Pierre Fournier (Montreal, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1991, pp.154). Toward a Canada-Quebec Union, by Philip Resnick (Montreal, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1991, pp.119). Political Crossroads: the 1989 Queensland Election edited by Rosemary Whip and Colin A. Hughes (St Lucia, Queensland, University of Queensland Press, 1991, pp. xv + 280, $Aust 29.95). Global Regimes and Nation‐States: Environmental Issues in Australian Politics, by Robert Boardman (Carleton University Press, Ottawa, 1990, pp. 222, $Can 29.95 hb, $19.95 pb).