...Punya Sloka Ray A Short Bengali-English, English-Bengali Dictionary . By Jack A. Dabbs . College Station : Texas A. & M. , 1962 . xii , 173 . Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 131 Hindu and Buddhist terms is bewildering even ceremonial...

...J. H. Broomfield Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Bengali Muslim Public Opinion As Reflected in the Bengali Press, 1901–1930 . By Mustafa Nurul Islam . Dacca : Bangla Academy , 1973 . vii, 341 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index, n.p.l...

...Shereen Ilahi Policing “Bengali Terrorism” in India and the World: Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905–1939 . By Michael Silvestri . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2019 . xiii, 362 pp. ISBN: 9783030180416 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... The Mahārāshṭa Purāṇa An Eighteenth-Century Bengali Historical Text . Translated and annotated by Edward C. Dimock and P. C. Gupta . Honolulu : East-West Center Press , 1965 . For the Association for Asian Studies, xxii, 86 . Bibliography and Index. $5.00. Copyright ©...

...Edward C. Dimock, Jr An Anthology of Bengali Writing . By Buddhadeva Bose . Bombay : The Macmillan Company of India Ltd ., 1971 . xii, 168 pp. Glossary. Rs. 22.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 350 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES standing, his own last poems...

...Mary Higdon Beech Bengali Women . By Manisha Roy . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1976 . xviii, 205 pp. Notes, Appendix, References, Index. $9.95 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 374 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES In examining life in Chennanagar...

... be appreciated by many readers besides the undergraduates in Sri Lanka for whom it appears to be principally intended. JAMES BROW University of Texas at Austin The Play of the Gods: Locality, Ideology, Structure, and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali Town. By AKOS OSTOR. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

...Aditi Nath Sarkar Catalogus Catalogorum of Bengali Manuscripts . Vol. I . [Bāṁlā puthira t¯alikā samanvaya, prathama khaṇḍal]. By Jatindra Mohan Bhattacharjee . Calcutta : Asiatic Society , 1978 . xxiii, 385 pp. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982...

...Carol Prindle The Gift of a Virgin: Women, Marriage, and Ritual in a Bengali Society . By Lina M. Fruzzetti . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 1982 . xi, 134 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Judith Walsh Reluctant Debutante: Response of Bengali Women to Modernization, 1849–1905 . By Ghulam Murshid . Rajshahi, Bangladesh : Sahitya Samsad, Rajshahi University , 1983 . 285 pp. Appendixes, Select Bibliography, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984...

...George Pati Poetry and History: Bengali Maṅgal-kābya and Social Change in Precolonial Bengal contains original research, but as a collection of essays, each individual chapter could serve as useful resource for teaching different issues in precolonial Bengal and the use of maṅgal-kābya...

...Ephraim Miller Bāṁlā Bhāṣāy Islāmī Pustaker Tālikā [Catalogue of Islamic books in the Bengali language] . Compiled by M. Abdur Razzaque , Dacca : Islamic Foundation , 1977 . ii, 194 pp. Appendixes. Tk. 8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 378 JOURNAL...

...Stephen A. Tyler Kinship in Bengali Culture . By Ronald B. Inden and Ralph W. Nicholas . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1977 . xvii, 139 pp. Appendixes, Notes, References, Index. $15.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 406 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Thomas R. Trautmann † Thomas R. Trautmann is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 VOL. XXXIX, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1980 Review Article Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture* THOMAS R...

...Paul R. Greenough Abstract The author questions the assumptions of an “Asian school of scarcity and risk,” of which James C. Scott is the principal exponent, using Bengali peasant history as a case in point. He argues that it is more likely that the subsistence traditions of Bengal derive from...

...Edward C. Dimock Essays on Middle Bengali Literature . Edited by Rahul Peter Das . Calcutta : Firma KLM , 1999 . iv, 228 pp. Rs 300 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 260 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES pilgrimage, Tamu activists "re-map...

...William S. Sax Culture and Power: Legend, Ritual, Bazaar, and Rebellion in a Bengali Society . By Ákos Östör . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1984 . 224 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 687 OTlaherty's answer...

...Carol Salomon Bengali Literature . By Dusan Zbavitel . Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz (A History of Indian Literature, Vol. IX, Fasc. 3, pp. 119–307), 1976 . 189 pp. Index, n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 382 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Zvelebil...

...Kamala Visweswaran Colonial Masculinity: The ‘manly Englishman’ and the ‘effeminate Bengali’ in the late 19th century . By Mrinalini Sinha . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1995 . xi, 191 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... to comment on North-South differences. RICHARD D. LAMBERT University of Pennsylvania Word Frequency in Newspaper Bengali. BY JACK DABBS. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University, Department of Modern Languages, 1966. xv, 107 pp. Errata. $3.00. There is some speculation both theoretically...