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Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order edited by Francine Frankel and M.S.A. Rao, Volume I (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989, 443 pp., £12.95) and Volume II (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1990, 555 pp., £12.95). Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics: The Origins and Deveopment of Bharatiya Jana Sangh by Bruce D. Graham (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990 pp. XII+283, £27.50 ($44.50)). Elite and Social Change: A Study of Elite Formation in India by Suren Navlakha (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1989, pp. 190, £25 hb). The Presidential System: The Indian Debate by A. G. Noorani. (New Delhi, London, Sage, 1990, pp. 155, £22.50). Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope by Judith M. Brown (Yale, Yale University Press, 1989, pp.xii + 440, £25). India's Mixed Economy: The Role of Ideology and Interest in its Development by Baldev Raj Nayar (Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1989, pp. xi + 421, Rs.350). Dislodging Multinationals: India's Strategy in Comparative Perspective by Denis J. Encarnation (Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1989, pp. xiii + 237). The State of Martial Law: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence by Ayesha Jalal (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. xi + 328, £35). Pakistan: Political and Economic History since 1947 by Omar Noman (London, Kegan Paul International, 1990, pp. xiii + 223, £7.95). The Last Colony in Africa: Diplomacy and the Independence of Rhodesia by Michael Charlton (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. xi + 164, £19.95). The Politics of Reconciliation by Victor de Waal (London, C. Hurst, 1990, pp. xiv + 146, £6.95). State Politics in Zimbabwe by Jeffrey Herbst (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990, pp. xvi + 283, $38.00). The Failure of the Centralized State: Institutions and Self‐Governance in Africa edited by James S. Wunsch and Dele Olowu (Oxford, Westview Press, 1990, pp. 334, £22.50). Towards the Third Nigerian Republic edited by Arnold Hughes (Birmingham, Centre of West African Studies, 1990, pp. 42, £3.50). From Apartheid to Nation‐Building by Hermann Giliomee and Lawrence Schlemmer (Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. x + 256, £5.95). South Africa: The Sanctions Report: Documents and Statistics edited by Joseph Hanlon (London, The Commonwealth Secretariat in association with James Currey and Heinemann, 1990, pp. 342, £11.95). Conflict Resolution in Uganda edited by Kumar Rupesinghe (Peace Research Monograph 16, International Peace Research Institute, Fuglehauggata 11, N‐Oslo 2, Norway, 1989, distributed by James Currey, London, £9.95 pb.). Africa's Way: A Journey from the Past by Laurence Cockroft (London, I.B. Tauris, 1990, pp. xii +231, £14.95). Capitalism, Socialism and the Development Crisis in Tanzania edited by Norman O'Neill and Kemal Mustafa (Aldershot, Avebury, Gower Publishing Company, 1990, pp. xiv + 281). The Policy Factor: Agricultural Performance in Kenya and Tanzania by Michael F. Lofchie (Heinemann Kenya, Nairobi and Lynne Reinner Publishers, London, 1990). Australia Towards 2000 edited by Brian Hocking (London, Macmillan, 1990, pp. 318, £35.00). The New Zealand Foreign Affairs Handbook by Steve Hoadley (Oxford University Press/OUP New Zealand, 1989, pp. 176, £18.50 pb.). The Masks of Proteus: Canadian Reflections on the State by Philip Resnick (Montreal, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1990, pp. xii + 340, £37). Canada (World Bibliographical Series, volume 62) compiled by Ernest Ingles, with introduction by James Pitsula (Oxford, Santa Barbara and Denver, Clio Press, 1990, pp. xxx + 393, map, £55.95). Waiting for the Revolution. A History of Australian Nationalism by Noel McLachlan (Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, Penguin Books Australia, 1989, pp. x +388, $A 24.99 pb.).