...Marguerite Ross Barnett Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India . By Marc Galanter . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1984 . xxvi, 625 pp. Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, General Index, Index of Cases. $36.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Steve Barnett Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour . By Mark Holmstrom . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . x, 342 pp. Index. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 435 inclusion...

...Richard B. Barnett Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 Kingship and Authority in South Asia . Edited by John F. Richards . Madison : University of Wisconsin (South Asian Studies Pub. No. 3), 1978 . xi , 303 pp. $5.00. 410 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Robert Barnett On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier . By Åshild Kolås and Monika P. Thowsen . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2005 . 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S...

...Steve Barnett Ethnic Plurality in India . By R. A. Schermerhorn . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1978 . xii, 369 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Appendix. $12.95 (cloth); $6.45 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK...

...Richard B. Barnett Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Obituaries M. ATHAR ALI 1925-1998 On July 7, in Aligarh, India, one of the world's top scholars of medieval South Asian history succumbed to liver cancer after a three-month illness. M. Athar Ali earned his doctorate...

...Steve Barnett; Lina Fruzzetti; Akos Ostor Abstract The importance of Louis Dumont's work—both for specialists in Indian studies and for general social science theory—is by now obvious. Yet, since the publication of the initial volumes of Contributions to Indian Sociology (old series, coedited...

...Richard B. Barnett Arrested Development in India: The Historical Dimension . Edited by Clive J. Dewey . Riverdale : The Riverdale Company, and Delhi: Manohar , 1988 . xiv, 377 pp. $34.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 718 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Steve Barnett; Lina M. Fruzzetti; Ákos Östör Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 1 Steve Barnett, Lina Fruzzetti, and Ákos Östör, “Hierarchy Purified: Notes on Dumont and His Critics,” JAS , XXXV, 4 (1976), pp. 627–46; McKim Marriott, “Interpreting Indian...

...Anthony Barnett Vietnamese Communism in Comparative Perspective . Edited by William S. Turley . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1980 . xiii, 271 pp. Index. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 642 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES options that Johnson's...

...Robert W. Barnett The Institute of Pacific Relations: Asian Scholars and American Politics . By John N. Thomas . University of Washington Press , 1974 . 142 pp. $8.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 Book Reviews The Institute of Pacific Relations...

...Robert W. Barnett The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898–1937 . By Randall E. Stross . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1986 . xii, 272 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Steve Barnett Structural Approaches to South India Studies . Edited by Harry M. Buck and Glenn E. Yocum . Chambersburg, Pa. : Wilson Books , 1974 . 224 pp. Notes, Figures, Illustrations. $6.90 (Discount price for direct mail prepaid orders: $4.90) Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Suzanne Wilson Barnett B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 785 about the primacy of ritual and iconography over myth and belief, even though he allows that [f]or those directly involved in ritual, belief seems to matter. . . . Taking part in ritual events acknowledges that the gods exist...

...A. Doak Barnett United States Foreign Policy: Asia . Studies prepared at the request of the Committee on Foreign Relations by Conlon Associates Ltd. No. 5. Washington, D. C. : U. S. Government Printing Office , 1959 . ix , 157 . Appendix, (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Marguerite Ross Barnett The Politics of South India, 1920–1937 . By Christopher John Baker . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (Cambridge South Asian Studies 17), 1976 . xxiii, 363 pp. Maps, Tables, Notes, Biographical Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $28.50 Copyright ©...

...Robert W. Barnett BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 4 1 1 research in Japanese agriculture because of the variations in usage underlaid by differences in basic geographical and socio-cultural conditions. Latz goes on to introduce Japanese agricultural conditions at the national level. His main focus...

...Suzanne Wilson Barnett Westward to China . By James Culp . Productions for the Film History Foundation, 650 Fifth Street, No. 202, San Francisco, Calif . 94107. Video Format, 1990. 57 minutes, 45 seconds; color and b/w. VHS $295.00; BETA $295.00; 3/4” $350.00. Copyright ©...

...Suzanne Wilson Barnett China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary . By Thomas A. Breslin . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1980 . 116 pp. Notes, Principal Sources Consulted, Index. $15.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK...

...Suzanne Wilson Barnett BOOK REVIEWS 513 maintenance of existing privileges and the subjugation of subjects, the less the availability of means to redress grievances. .. . The stronger the centralized authority the less the availability of means to redress grievances. Unfortunately, Cheng does...