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Mathura: The Cultural Heritage (New Delhi, American Institute of Indian Studies, 1989), 405pp. US$68.00. Fernão Mendes Pinto, The Travels of Mendes Pinto, ed. and trans. by Rebecca D. Catz (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1989), xivi, 663pp. Gadyaraja; a fourteenth century Marathi version of the Krsna Legend, Trans. with annotations I. Raeside, (Popular Prakashan Bombay/School of Oriental & African Studies, 1989), xxv, 312pp. £20. David Seyfort Ruegg, Buddha‐nature, Mind and the Problem of Gradualism in a Comparative Perspective: On the Transmission and Reception of Buddhism in India and Tibet (London, School of Oriental and African Studies/University of London, 1989), 219pp., £20. Günther D. Sontheimer and Hermann Kulke (ed.), Hinduism reconsidered [South Asian Studies no. XXIV, South Asia Institute] (New Delhi, Manohar, 1989), vii, 238pp., Rs.180. N.G. Barrier and V.A. Dusenbery (ed.), The Sikh Diaspora. Migration and the Experience beyond Punjab (Columbia, Miss., South Asia Publications, 1989), x, 352pp., US$42.50. R. Jeffrey, et. al. (ed.), India Rebellion to Republic: Selected Writings, 1857–1990, [Asian Studies Association of Australia, South Asian Publication series no. 5] (Sterling, Delhi, 1990), xxv, 510pp., $25. Robert Wade, Village Republics: Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India (London, Cambridge University Press, 1988), 240pp. Omar Khalidi, Dakan Under the Sultans 1292–1724. A Bibliography of Monographic and Periodical Literature (Hydarabad Historical Society, Wichita, Kansas, HHS Monograph Series No. 3, 1987), xxiv, 121pp. Robert W. Stern, The Cat and the Lion: Jaipur State in the British Raj [Monographs and Theoretical Studies in Sociology and Anthropology in Honour of Nels Anderson, Publication 21], (Lieden, E.J. Brill, 1988), ix, 331pp. Anita Inder Singh, The Origins of the Partition of India 1936–47 (Oxford University Press, 1987), 271pp., £12.00. Suresh Chandra Ghosh, Education Policy in India Since Warren Hastings (Calcutta, Naya Prokash, 1989), 128pp., Rs.120.00. R.S. Newman, Grassroots Education in India: A Challenge for Policy Makers (New Delhi, Sterling Publishers, 1989), 178pp., Rs.150, A$25. P. Reeves & J. Wardrop (Comp.), The Indian Nationalist Movement, c.1912–1922. Leadership, Organisation and Philosophy. The Writings of Hugh Owen, [ASAA South Asia Publications, no.6], (New Delhi, Sterling, 1990), 262pp., Rs.225. W. Owen Cole and Piara Singh Sambhi, A Popular Dictionary of Sikhism (London, Curzon Press, 1990), 163pp. S.B. Ortner, High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1989), 245pp. O.V. Vijayan, After the Hanging and other stories (New Delhi, Penguin, 1989), 169pp., $11.99.