Book Reviews

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Ronald Inden, Jonathan Walters & Daud Ali. Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia Oxford: Oxford University Press (2000). 235 pp., index. Anila Verghese, Archaeology, Art and Religion: New Perspectives on Vijayanagara. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2000). xvii + 342 pp., 10 maps, 17 figures, 80 plates. Rima Hooja (with Pandit Bhagwan Das Jain and Mahopadhyaya Vinaysagar), Mandan Sutradhar's Devata Murti Prakaranam, Jaipur: Prakrit Bharati Academy (1999). 278 pp., 14 colour photographs and 4 pages of line drawings. Vidhya Dehejia (ed.) Devi: The Great Goddess - Female Divinity in South Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in association with Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad and Prestel Verlag, Munich, London and New York (1999). 408 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, map, appendix, bibliography, and index. Corinna Wessels-Mevissen. The Gods of the Directions in Ancient India: Origin and Early Development in Art and Literature (until c. 1000 AD), Monographien zur Indischen Archaologie Kunst und Philologie, Band 14. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, (2001). 233 pp. Vidya Dehejia (ed.) India through the Lens: Photography 1840–1911 Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C. in association with Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad and Prestel Verlag, Munich (2000). 315 pp., 18 figures, 134 catalogue plates, 1 map Michael Willis with contributions by Joe Cribb and Julia Shaw Buddhist reliquaries from ancient India. London: British Museum Press (2000). 138 pp. incl. 124 figures & 9 maps; 34 pp. catalogue. Dilip K. Chakrabarti, India an Archaeological History. Palaeolithic beginnings to Early Historic foundations. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (1999). 374 & xvi pp., 56 figures, 8 maps. Kenneth R. Kennedy, God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology in South Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2000). 480 pp., 50 illus.