...Brijen K. Gupta Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 British Rule in India; An Assessment . By Ram Gopal . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1963 . x, 364. Index. $7.75. How the British Occupied Bengal: A Corrected Account of the 1755–1765 Events...

... granted to subjects of a sovereign authority. In this brief essay on how historians and political theorists in recent years have debated the tortuous relationship between the ideas of empire and liberty in British India, I would like to pause on this constricted and negative definition of liberty rather...

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...Frank F. Conlon The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century . Edited by P. J. Marshall . Cambridge , University Press , 1970 . ix. 310 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Index. $17.50. Muslim Rule in India: The Assessments of British Historians . By J. S. Grewal...

... of contemporary North Korea. Some readers might wish that this meticulously edited volume had an index, bibliography, and comparative statistical data for the two Koreas. ROY KIM Drexel University SOUTH ASIA The British Labour Party and the Indian Independence Movement, 1911-1939. By MESBAHUDDIN A H M E D . New...

...Robert Bickers Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-British Business, 1860–1911: The Impact of the Pro-British Commercial Network in Shanghai . By Eiichi Motono . New York : St. Martin's Press , 2000 . ix , 229 pp. $69.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002...

...DeWitt C. Ellinwood The Military in British India: The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600–1947 . By T. A. Heathcote . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1995 . 288 pp. $69.95 (cloth). The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860–1940 . By David Omissi...

...Ryan Dunch The Cultural Contribution of British Protestant Missionaries and British-American Cooperation to China's National Development During the 1920s . By Dan Cui . Foreword by R. G. Tiedemann. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1998 . xxii, 405 pp. $59.00. Copyright ©...

...Rodney Needham North Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak (British Borneo) . Country Survey Series. New Haven : Human Relations Area Files , 1957 . xi, 287 . Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 321 in Indonesia. A careful...

...Rhoads Murphey Geographical Essays on British Tropical Lands . Ed. R. W. Steel and C. A. Fisher . London : George Philip & Son , 1956 . x, 344 . Maps, Diagrams. 35 s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 328 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES and Stacy R...

...Holden Furber The Colebrooke-Cameron Papers: Documents on British Colonial Policy in Ceylon, 1796–1833 . Ed. G. C. Mendis . New York : Oxford University Press , 1957 . 2 vols. lxiv, 393 , vii, 416. Tables, Maps, Index. $18.30. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

.... scripts from Tunhuang in the British It is natural that every catalogue has some Museum. By LIONEL GILES. London: The weaknesses. In this catalogue, the author men- Trustees of the British Museum, 1957. xxv, tions in some cases that a text has been pub- 334. £5/10/0. lished or dealt with in a publication...

.... (1957), 108-13. General and Other GIBSON-HILL, C. A. Jerat tempurong. JRASMB HUMAN RELATIONS AREA FILES, INC. Bibliography of British Borneo, prepared by HRAF British Borneo Research Project at the University of Chicago. New Haven, 1956. 23 p. KERR, GEOFFREY. Brunei: a welfare state refuses 28 (1955...

...Cecil Hobbs Abstract Four Factors will influence British colonial policy in Burma: (1) public opinion in various countries of the world; (2) liberal thought in England itself; (3) Japan's occupation of Burma; and (4) the growth of nationalism within Burma. Though all these factors are important...

...John L. Christian British rule in Eastern Asia . By Lennox A. Mills . London : Oxford University Press ; Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1942 . An IPR book, ix, 581 p. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 108 T H E FAR EASTERN...

...Earl H. Pritchard British admirals and Chinese pirates, 1832–1869 . By Grace Fox . London : Kegan Paul , 1940 . xiv, 227 p. 12/6. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 BOOK REVIEWS 189 eighty-one facsimile reproductions, mostly title-pages of the more ancient...

...Lawrence K. Rosinger 406 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Japan, nor by the somewhat cynical suggestion that history will finally judge Wang's policy on the basis of its success or failure. College of Wooster WILLIAM J. HAIL British diplomacy in China 1880 to 1885. BY E. V. G. KIERNAN. Cambridge...

... who said: 'Confucius and you are both dreams; and I who say that you are dreams I am only a dream myself.' Certainly the view that the existence of the past cannot be proved was not the basis of Mr. Kiernan's successful analysis. New York City LAWRENCE K. ROSINGER British relations with China, 1931...

...Thomas E. Ennis Malaya's First British Pioneer: The Life of Francis Light . By H. P. Clodd . London : Luzac , 1948 . xiv, 166 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 267 tive psychosis holds true in many respects, one cannot justly discount...