Book reviews

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The Ombudsman in New Zealand by Bryan Gilling (Palmerston North: Dunmore Press (in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs), 1998, pp.190, NZ$29.95 pb). Contesting the Australian Way: States, Markets and Civil Society edited by Paul Smyth and Bettina Cass (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.vii + 280, $US25.95 and £15.95 pb; $US64.95 and £45 hb). The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya by T.N. Harper (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp.xviii + 417, £45 hb). Parliaments in Asia edited by Philip Norton, Lord Norton of Louth, and Nizam Ahmed (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999, pp.199, £37.50/$52.50 hb, £16.50/$24.50 pb). Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, vol. 18, 1 April‐15 July 1952, general editor S. Gopal (New Delhi: Oxford University Press for the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, 1996, pp.691, Rs 450 hb). Freedom, Trauma, Continuities: Northern India and Independence edited by D.A. Low and Howard Brasted (New Delhi: Sage, 1998, pp.244, £35 hb). Witness to Surrender by Siddiq Salik (Lahore: Oxford University Press, 1998 (previously published in 1977), pp.245, £10.99 pb). Between Tradition and Modernity: India's Search for Identity edited by Fred Dallmyr and G.N. Devy (Delhi: Sage, 1998, pp.374, £35 hb). African Islam and Islam in Africa: Encounters between Sufis and Islamists edited by David Westerlund and Eva Evers Rosander (London: Hurst and Company, in cooperation with the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 1997, pp.347, £18.95 pb). The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism by Lamin Sanneh (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, pp.290, £15.95 pb). African Guerrillas edited by Christopher Clapham (Oxford: James Currey, 1998, pp.xiv + 208, £40 hb, £12.95 pb). Namibia's Post‐Apartheid Regional Institutions: The Founding Years by Joshua Bernard Forrest (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1998, pp.408 + xvi, £40 hb). Agencies in Foreign Aid: Comparing China, Sweden and the United States in Tanzania edited by Goran Hyden and Rwekaza Mukandala (London: Macmillan, 1999, pp.ix + 246, £45 hb). The Dynamic of Secession by Viva Ona Bartkus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp.viii + 264, £13.95 pb). Making Race and Nation by A.W. Marx (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.xviii + 390, £22.50 hb)