...Stephen E. Koss Abstract A disproportionate amount of scholarly attention has already been lavished upon the provision for communal electorates in the 1909 Morley-Minto reform scheme, imparting to it a significance which it lacked during both John Morley's secretaryship of state for India and his...

...Veena Talwar Oldenburg Roots of Communal Politics: The Cawnpur Riot Commission Report . Edited by N. Gerald Barrier . Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1976 . Appendixes. $16.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 552 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES abyss...

...Peter van der Veer Anatomy of a Confrontation: Ayodhya and the Rise of Communal Politics in India . Edited by Sarvepalli Gopal . London : Zed Books , 1993 . viii, 240 pp. Rs. 195 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 874 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... as Neighborhood Guardian Deities.” In Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800–1980 , ed. Freitag Sandria B. . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Currie P. M. . 1989 . The Shrine and Cult of Muin al-Din Chishti of Ajmer . Oxford...

... of the series in order to gain a more complete understanding of the ways in which political and cultural discourse produced and reproduced empire in Victorian Britain. BRIAN CATON Luther College Khaki and the Ethnic Violence in India: Army, Police, and Paramilitary Forces during Communal Riots. By OMAR KHALIDI...

... minguo chunian Chao Shan qiaoxiang—yi Zhanglin weili ” (Aftermath of the August 2 typhoon disaster and the emigrant communities in Chaozhou and Shantou in early Republican China: The case of Zhanglin). Chanxue yanjiu (Chaozhou-Shantou cultural research) 6 : 369 –95. Junlin Chen , ed. 1989...

... Press . xviii , 279 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper). Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia: Small Town Wars . By Gerry van Klinken . Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series no. 15. New York : Routledge , 2007 . xxiv , 180 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...David Hicks Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia is a study whose conclusions have pertinence outside the places on which the author directs his focus—and not only for Indonesia. Throughout his exposition, Van Klinken takes pains to cite the findings of other scholars who have...

...Martin Yanuck Hindu-Muslim Relations in British India: A Study of Controversy, Conflict, and Communal Movements in Northern India, 1923–1928 . By G. R. Thursby . Leiden : E. J. Brill , Studies in the History of Religions (Supplements to Numen) No. 25, 1975 . Bibliography, Index. N.p.l...

...Karen Kane Les Chinois de Jakarta: Temples et Vie Collective [The Chinese of Jakarta: Temples and Communal Life] . By Claudine Salmon and Denys Lombard . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme , published by Monograph, 1980 . lxxviii, 358 pp. Notes, Appendixes...

...Robert O. Tilman Politics in a Plural Society: A Study of Non-Communal Political Parties in West Malaysia . By R. K. Vasil . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , ix . 338 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $13.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 212...

... in vernacular tracts, Congress publications, and scholarly works as a fundamental cause of communal tension. The similar assumptions, methodology, and sources upon which these assessments rest, however, have resulted in a clouding of key issues and a misreading of the historical record. The studies generally...

... . Civil Rights Movement . 1983 . Communal Violence—July 1982 . Colombo 01, 5, 1983. Daedalus . 1989 . Another India . Fall. Davis Natalie Zemon . 1973 . “ The Rites of Violence: Religious Riots in Sixteenth-Century France .” Past and Present , 59 : 51 – 91 . Geertz Clifford...

...Beth Roy Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885–1930 . By Mushirul Hasan . New Delhi : Manohar Publications , 1991 . x, 338 pp. Rs. 250.00. Religion, Nationalism and Politics in Bangladesh . By Rafiuddin Ahmed . New Delhi : South Asian Publishers , 1990 . xii, 201...

...Patricia Gossman Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905–1947 . By Suranjan Das . Oxford University South Asian Studies Series. Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1991 . xv, 311 pp. Rs. 225. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 745...

...Beth Roy Purity and Communal Boundaries: Women and Social Change in a Bangladeshi Village . By Santi Rozario . London and New Jersey : Zed Press , 1992 . xii, 200 pp. $39.95. The Womb of Mind: A Sociological Exploration of the Status-Experience of Women in Delhi . By Renuka...

...Forrest R. Pitts Two Japanese Villages: Matsunagi, A Japanese Mountain Community; Kurusu, A Japanese Agricultural Community . By John B. Cornell and Robert J. Smith . Center for Japanese Studies, Occasional Papers No. 5. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1956 . xiv, 232 . Maps...

...Werner Levi Documents on Communism, Nationalism, and Soviet Advisers in China, 1918–1927 . (Papers Seized in the 1927 Peking Raid.) Edited, with Introductory Essays, by C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How . New York : Columbia University Press , 1956 . xviii , 617 . $8.75...

... within the diasporic community” (pp. 360–61). But it is also a context in which divisions between Gurungs who seek Buddhist lamas as funeral officiants and those who prefer shamans emerge. These divisions have become newly crystallized through ethnic politics in Nepal and interfere with the process...

... practical failures in its domestic or foreign policy. HAROLD C. HINTON The George Washington University Metaphor, Myth, Ritual and the People's Commune. By T. A. HSIA. Studies in Chinese Communist Terminology No. 7. Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of International Studies, University...