Book Reviews

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Christopher Pinney, ‘Photos of the Gods’. The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India , 2004, Reaktion Books, London, 239 pages, 167 illustrations (80 in colour) Mukulika Banerjee and Daniel Miller, The Sari , 2003, Berg, Oxford and New York, 288 pages, 215 colour illustrations. Mehrdad Shokoohy, Muslim Architecture of South India, The Sultanate of Ma'bar and the Traditions of the Maritime Settlers on the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts (Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Goa) , 2003, Routledge Curzon, London, 341 pages, 231 black-and-white photographs, 119 figures. Dilip K. Chakrabarti, The Archaeology of European Expansion in India. Gujarat, c. 16th–18th centuries. 2003, Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 187 pages, 18 plates, 13 figures. Samina Chonara (ed.), “Official” Chronicle of Mayo School of Art: Formative Years under J.L. Kipling (1874–94) , 2003, National College of Art, Lahore, 175 pages. Anna Suvorova, Muslim Saints of South Asia: The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries . 2004, RoutledgeCurzon Sufi Series, London/New York, translated by M. Osama Faruqi, with a foreword by Christopher Shackle, xii + 244 pages. Maria Antonella Pelizzari (ed.), Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850–1900 , 2003, Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 344 pages, 73 black-and-white and 106 colour illustrations, 1 map. Janice Leoshko, Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia , 2003, Ashgate, Aldershot, 184 pages, 59 black-and-white illustrations. Monika Zin, Ajanta. Hattdbuch der Malereien 2. Devotionale und ornamentale Malerei, Volume I Interpretation, Volume II Plates , 2003, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Volume I: 544 pages with numerous line drawings appended to each section; Volume II: Plates 38.