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...Pamela Price Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India . By Niels Brimnes . London : Curzon Press , 1999 . viii, 280 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 191 beyond simple...

...Youngju Ryu The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 . By Sunyoung Park . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2015 . xiv, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780674417175 (cloth). When the Future Disappears: The Modernist...

...Gordon P. Means An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore. From the Foundation of the Settlement under the Honourable The East India Company on February 6th, 1819 to the Transfer to the Colonial Office of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown on April 1st, 1867 . By Charles Burton...

... . By Reto Hoffman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2015 . ISBN: 9780801453410 (cloth, also available as e-book). In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere . By Faye Yuan Kleeman . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press...

...Anne Murphy People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial, and Post-Colonial Migration . Edited by Ian Talbot and Shinder Thandi . Subcontinent Divided: New Beginning. Karachi : Oxford University Press , 2004 . xx , 238 pp. Rs 350 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005...

...Satadru Sen Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial Educational Service, 1858–1983 . By Clive Whitehead . London and New York : I. B. Tauris , 2003 . xv, 286 pp. $59.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S O U T H A S I...

...Marshall S. McLennan City of Pines: The Origins of Baguio as a Colonial Hill Station and Regional Capital . By Robert R. Reed . Berkeley : Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California , 1976 . xxi, 189 pp. Maps, Bibliography, n.p.l. Landed Estates...

... rights of people and states? From such a viewpoint, the study of Soviet-Asian relations might turn out differently. USHA MAHAJANI Central Washington University Legal Pluralism: An Introduction to Colonial and Neo-Colonial Laws. BY M. B. HOOKER. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. xxii, 601 pp. Bibliography...

...Elizabeth Kolsky Abstract This article explores the history of intraracial (Indian-on-Indian) rape in early colonial India. Though at times uneven and unpredictable in their rulings, British judges created a set of evidentiary requirements and a body of legal decisions that were as harsh on rape...

...Thomas R. Metcalf A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India . By Radhika Singha . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . xxx, 342 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 213 as belonging...

...Robert Nichols Colonial Political Economy: Recruitment and Underdevelopment in the Punjab . By Mustapha Kamal Pasha . Karachi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . xxii, 300 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1178 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Kumkum Chatterjee Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace . By Sudipta Sen . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1998 . iv, 225 pp. $37.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 212...

...Madhavi Kale Women and Labour in Late Colonial India. The Bengal Jute Industry . By Samita Sen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1999 . xviii, 265 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1183 calls...

...David L. White The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society . By T. M. Luhrman . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1996 . xiv, 317 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 578 THE JOURNAL...

...Thomas Metcalf Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India . By Pamela G. Price . University of Cambridge, Oriental Publications volume 51. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xviii, 220 pp. $54.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998...

...Sumathi Ramaswamy The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu . By A. R. Venkatachalapathy . New Delhi : Permanent Black , 2012 . xvii, 292 pp. ₹795 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 In this wonderful...

... subjecthood and what it meant to be civilized were tied up with the charge that the pavilion was a humanitarian concern ( jindō mondai ). The Human Pavilion became a nexus between colonial and imperial subjects, which, rather than reifying distinctions between the two, called into question the coherence...

...John P. Haithcox Abstract Before the opening of the Second World Congress of the Communist International (July 19–August 7, 1920) [which met on the first day in Petrograd but subsequently in Moscow], Lenin prepared a draft thesis on the national and colonial question. M. N. Roy, a young Bengali...

...Projit Bihari Mukharji Abstract This article critically examines the assumptions and processes involved in identifying historically distinctive plant identities by their Latin botanical names. By following late-colonial efforts to identify a medicinal herb mentioned in some versions of the Ramayana...

...Kavita Saraswathi Datla Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India . By Bhavani Raman . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . xii, 278 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 How were the British able...