...Richard Burghart Naître Renonçant: Une Caste de Sannyāsi Villageois au Népal Central [To Be Born a Renouncer: A Caste of Sannyāsi Villagers in Central Nepal] . By Véronique Bouillier . Nanterre : Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Université de Paris X , 1979 . 264 pp...

...Agehananda Bharati Kānphaṭā: Untersuchungen zu Kult, Mythologie and Geschichte Sivaitischer Tantriker im Nepal. [Kānphaṭā: Research Concerning Cults, Mythology, History of Sivaitik Tantric in Nepal] . By Günter Unbescheid . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1980 . xxxiii, 183 pp...

...John Hitchcock Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal . By Alan Macfarlane . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (Studies in Social Anthropology 12), 1976 . xviii, 364 pp. Tables, Illustrations...

...Theodore Riccardi Société et Religion chez les Néwar du Népal. [Society and religion among the Newar of Nepal] . By Gérard Toffin . Paris : Centre Regional de Publications du C.N.R.S. (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de Meudon-Bellevue) , 1984 . 668 pp. Annexes, Bibliographie...

.... T . The symbol of the Sinhalese guardstone. A A 21, no. 3/4 (1958), 259-68. Guide to the reading of hand-written documents in Sinhalese. [Colombo?] Official Language Dept., 1957. 65 p. HETTIARATCHI, D. E. Echo-words in Sinhalese. UCR 17 (Jan./Apr. 1959), 47-50. Nepal, 1952/54 A.D. Kathmandu, 1958...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 734 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASIAN STUDIES 1960 Pakistan: the comity of Islam. Round table no. Philosophical Society 104 (Apr. 1960), 172-187. 199 (June 1960), 300-303. and WILLIAM M. JENKINS. Nepal; a cul- QAYYUM, MAZHAR. Data Ganj...

...Westin Harris Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal . By Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xx, 321 pp. ISBN: 9780199341160 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021...

...Tom O'Neill Crossing the Border to India: Youth, Migration, and Masculinities in Nepal . By Jeevan R. Sharma . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2018 . x, 176 pp. ISBN: 9781439914267 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Crossing...

... is generated through the process of oppositional politics; the idea of youth as a cultural and political category; and the practice of democracy as constituted through an ongoing dialogic relationship between external and internal political forces. The book begins with a succinct political history of Nepal...

...Chaitanya Mishra Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India . By Sara Shneiderman . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015 . xviii, 305 pp. ISBN: 9780812246834 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

... in America and Europe. JOHN E. BRUSH Rutgers, The State University The Sherpas of Nepal: Buddhist Highlanders. By CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMENDORF. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. xix, 298. Maps, Plates. $6.50. Numbering only a few thousands and inhabiting the high, narrow valleys...

...Benjamin Rowland, Jr The Art of Nepal . By Stella Kramrisch . New York : The Asia Society , 1964 . (Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) 159. n.p. The Art of Mughal India: Painting and Precious Objects . Introduction by Stuart C. Welch . New York : The Asia Society, Inc...

... SPINK Nepal. The Discovery of the Malla. By GIUSEPPE TUCCI. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1962. 96. $5.00. Perhaps no other nation of Asia presents such a dearth of information on its history and contemporary culture as does the kingdom of Nepal. For a century after 1850, Nepal, under the restrictive...

...Werner Levi Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 Nepal Bibliography . By Hugh B. Wood . Eugene, Oregon : The American-Nepal Education Foundation , 1959 . 108 (paper). 378 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES studied the sounds of different pitches from can serve...

...Leo E. Rose BOOK REVIEWS 557 tions " can develop satyagraha as "a civilized noted, however, that the cautiously optimistic alternative to violent resistance." tone of his speculations on future developments JOAN V. BONDURANT in Nepal were based on the assumption that the University of California...

... the sophistication of the civil institutions that shape people's lives. Drawing on local sources, Western writings, and oral history, Ramble introduces the inhabitants of Te, in Mustang, Nepal, and explodes common misconceptions without appearing to scold. Later chapters illustrate Ramble's interdisciplinary edge...

...David H. Kornhauser Japan: Industrial Power of Asia . By Robert B. Hall Jr. , 1963 . 127 . The Himalayan Kingdoms: Bhutan, Sikkim and Nepal . By Pradyumna P. Karan and William M. Jenkins Jr. , 1963 . 144 . Russo-Chinese Borderlands . By W. A. Douglas Jackson . 1962...

...Leo E. Rose India and Nepal: An Exercise in Open Diplomacy . By Shriman Narayan . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1970 . xii, 172 pp. Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 28.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 720 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... culmination in a more sophisticated level of research on South Asia. BARBARA RAMUSACK University of Cincinnati The Politics of Nepal: Persistence and Change in an Asian Monarchy. BY LEO E. ROSE AND MARGARET W. FISHER. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970. xiii, 197 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Index. $7.95...

...Marilyn Leese Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Nepal: Art Treasures from the Himalayas . By Ernst and Rose Leonore Waldschmidt . Translated by David Wilson . New York : Universe Books , 1970 . vii, 160 pp. Illustrations, Bibliographical Note. $10.00...