Book reviews

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R. J. Barendse, The Arabian Seas, 1640—1700 (Leiden, Leiden University, 1998), vi + 465 pp., n.p.1. Om Prakash, English Commercial Enterprise in Pre‐Colonial India (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998) The New Cambridge History of India, II, 5. xviii + 377 pp., $99.00. Jorge Manuel Flores, Os Portugueses e o Mar de Ceilão: Trato, Diplomacia e Guerra (1498—1543) (Lisbon, Edições Cosmos, 1998), 289 pp. Holden Furber, Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century (ed.) Rosane Rocher (Aldershot, Variorum, 1997), xii +322 pp. £49.50. Mark de Lannoy, The Kulasekhar Perumals of Travancore. History and State Formation in Travancore from 1671 to 1758 (Leiden, Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, 1997), vii, 247 pp., pbk. Pamela G. Price, Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996), xiv +220 pp., $32.50. Wendy Sinclair‐Brull, Female Ascetics: Hierarchy and Purity in an Indian religious movement (Richmond, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1997), pp.262. D. A. Low, Britain and Indian Nationalism: the Imprint of Ambiguity, 1929—1942 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xv+358, maps, biographical notes, index. AU$120. Thomas Weber, On the Salt March (New Delhi, Harper Collins Publishers, India, 1997), Bibliography, glossary, chronology, index, 594 pp. G. H. R. Tillotson (ed.), Paradigms of Indian Architecture: Space and Time in Representation and Design (Surrey, Curzon, 1998), 199 pp., £35 and £15. R. J Fisher, If Rain Doesn ‘t Come: An Anthropological Study of Drought and Human Ecology in Western Rajasthan (Leichhardt, The Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, and New Delhi, Manohar Publishers and Distributors), i‐xviii, 1—234 pp. Eva Cheung Robinson, Greening at the Grassroots: Alternative Forestry Strategies in India (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998), 143 pp., Rs250. Shukla, Sureshchandra and Rekha Kaul (eds), Education, Development and Underdevelopment (New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London, Sage Publications, 1998), 308 pp., Rs395 (cloth).