...David Lelyveld The Life and Work of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan . By G. F. I. Graham . Karachi : Oxford University Press Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints, 1974 . xvii, 298 pp. Appendix, Index. $8.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 BOOK REVIEWS 551 Academy...

...K. Anis Ahmed Abstract Mainstream media faces challenges in developed democracies like never before. On one hand, seemingly “free” digital (including social media) options are eroding the market for print drastically. Ads are not so much shifting from print to digital, but apparently simply...

...Akbar S. Ahmed In Afghanistan's Shadow: Baluch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations . By Selig S. Harrison . New York : Carnegie Endowment , 1981 . 228 pp. Maps, Photographs. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 869 relationship...

...Akbar S. Ahmed Abstract The four books reviewed are different in discipline and approach and written for widely different audiences. They are, however, linked in their articulation as a contemporary response to the larger political situation in and around Afghanistan. Certain fundamental issues...

...Rafiuddin Ahmed The Foreshadowing of Bangladesh: Bengal Muslim League and Muslim Politics, 1936–1947 . By Harun-Or-Rashid . Dhaka : Asiatic Society of Bangladesh , 1987 . viii , 366 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 664 THE JOURNAL...

...Akbar Ahmed Images of the West: Third World Perspectives . By David C. Gordon . New York : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1989 . 214 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 368 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES weakened the U.S.-Japan relationship...

...Rais uddin Ahmed Peasant Mobility: The Odds of Life in Rural Bangladesh . By Willem van Schendel . Assen : Van Gorcum , 1981 . xii, 333 pp. Glossary, References, Appendixes, Index, f. 61 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 711...

...Akbar S. Ahmed BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 239 Caste in Sri Lanka has been generally recognized to share some, but by no means all, of the elements postulated for Indian castes. Beginning in the Portuguese colonial epoch, Roberts assumes that there was an enduring Karava identity and solidarity...

...Ishtiaq Ahmed Punjab Politics, 1936–1939: The Start of Provincial Autonomy; Governors' Fortnightly Reports and Other Key Documents . Complied and edited by Lionel Carter . New Delhi : Manohar , 2004 . 443 pp. Rs 995 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 220...

...Akbar S. Ahmed Central Asia and Transcaucasia: Ethnicity and Conflict . Edited by Vitaly V. Naumkin . Westport, Conn., and London : Greenwood Press , 1994 , xiii, 242 pp. L53.95. Political and Economic Trends in Central Asia . Edited by Shirin Akiner . London and New York...

...Manan Ahmed Asif A Short History of the Mughal Empire . By Michael Fisher . London : I.B. Tauris , 2015 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9781848858725 (cloth, also available in paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 Professor Michael Fisher's...