Book reviews

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The Fearful State: Power, People and Internal War in South Asia by S. Mahmud Ali (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1993, pp.266, £32.95 hb, £13.95 pb). India: Facing the Twenty‐First Century by Barbara Crossette (Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 154, £20). Islam and Indian Nationalism: Reflections on Abul Kalam Azad edited by Mushirul Hasan (New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1992, pp.191, Rs 200). Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar, 1900–1948 by Dilip M. Menon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.xvi + 209, £30 hb). Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India by Gail Omvedt (Delhi: Sage, 1994, pp.348, £35). Bangladesh: Peasant Migration and the World Capitalist Economy by Aminul Haque Faraizi (New Delhi; Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1993, pp. 187 Aus $30). The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana by Jean Marie Allman (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, pp. xiii + 263, £53.95 hb, £22.50 pb). The Heritage of Islam. Women, Religion and Politics in West Africa by Barbara Callaway and Lucy Creevey (Boulder and London: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 1993, pp.x + 221, £35.50 hb, £15.95 pb). Africa within the World: Beyond Dispossession and Dependence edited by Adebayo Adedeji (London and New Jersey: Zed Books/African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies, 1994, pp.xvi + 234, £29.95 hb, £13.95 pb). Politics in New Zealand by Richard Mulgan (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1994, pp.viii + 324, $34.95). Women and Politics in New Zealand edited by Helena Catt and Elizabeth McLeay (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1993, pp.151, $29.95). Regional Security in the South Pacific: The Quarter‐Century 1970–95, by Ken Ross (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1993, pp.206, $23). Women and Change in the Caribbean edited by Janet H. Momsen (London: James Currey; Kingston: Ian Randle; Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp.308, £35 hb, £12.95 pb). Governance and Democracy in the Commonwealth Caribbean: An Introduction by Patrick Emmanuel (Cave Hill, Barbados: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1993, pp.118). Foreign Relations and Federal States edited by B. Hocking (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1993, pp.294, £39.50). Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism by Frank Furedi (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1994, pp.viii + 338, £34.50).