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Craig Baxter, Bangladesh: From a Nation to a State (Boulder, Colorado and Oxford, UK, Westview Press, 1997), pp. 176. Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and Chandra R. De Silva (eds), Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka (Albany, State University of New York Press (1998), pp. 212 incl. index. Susan C. Seymour, Women, Family and Child Care in India: A World in Transition (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999), 323 pp., $39.95 (pb). Hira Singh, Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance: Princes, Peasants, and Paramount Power (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London, Sage, 1998), 274 pp., Rs375. Narasingha P. Sil, Ramakrishna Revisited: A New Biography (Lanham, New York, Oxford, University Press of America, 1998), pp. 340. $US46 (cloth). George Michell and Mark Zebrowski, Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999), The New Cambridge History of India Vol. I: pt. 7, xxiii + 297 pp., maps, appendix, bibliographic essay, bibliography, index, b. and w. illustrations, colour plates. $155.00. Defining Indians: People, Places, Events, Papers from the School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University. Frank J. Korom (ed.), Constructing Tibetan Culture. Contemporary Perspectives (World Heritage Studies on Transnationalism and Multiculturalism, Quebec, World heritage Press, 1997), pp.viii, 230, npg. Rima Hooja, Crusader for Self‐Rule. Tej Bahadur Sapru and the Indian National Movement. Life and Selected Letters (Jaipur and New Delhi, Rawat Publications), pp. 542, biographical notes, index. Rs875. Ian Copland, The princes of India in the endgame of empire (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997), 302 pp., $95. Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. vi + 293, glossary, bibliography, index. $US 17.95 paper. K. Saradamoni, Matriliny Transformed. Family, Law and Ideology in Twentieth Century Travancore (New Delhi, Sage and Altamira Press, 1999), 176 pp., Rs175 paper, Rs325 cloth. Sangeeta R. Gupta (ed.), Emerging Voices: South Asian American Women Redefine Self, Family, and Community (New Delhi, Sage, 1999), 259 pp, Rs396 cloth, Rs225 paper. Kanchan Chopra and Gopal K. Kadekodi (eds), Operationalising Sustainable Development: Economic‐Ecological Modelling for Developing Countries, Indo‐Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives 22 (New Delhi, Sage, 1999), 301 pp., Rs395. Niaz Ahmed Khan, A Political Economy of Forest Resource Use: Case Studies of Social Forestry in Bangladesh (Hants, England and Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate, 1998), i‐xiii, 368 pp., £42.50 hardback.