... of Bengalis in East Pakistan, it did little to attenuate the ever-growing role of the military in politics. In this sense, Shah's argument will be familiar to those who have read the work of Ayesha Jalal, Stephen Cohen, and Husain Haqqani. The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan...

...Gayl D. Ness May 13: Before and After . By Tunku Abdul Rahman . Kuala Lumpur : Utusan Melayu Press Limited , 1969 . 207 pp. n.p. Malaysia: Death of a Democracy . By John Slimming . London : John Murray , 1969 , ix, 82 pp. Maps. n.p. The May 13 Tragedy: A Report...

...Sumit Ganguly Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India . By Walter Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle . London : C. Hurst and Company , 2019 . xxiv, 405 pp. ISBN: 9781787380257 . India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy . By Madhav...

...Robert Cummings Neville The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China . By David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames . Chicago and Lasalle, Ill .: Open Court , 1999 . xii, 267 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000...

...Arun Agrawal Nationalism, Development, and Democracy: State and Politics in India . Edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1997 . 206 pp. Rs. 375. The State and Development Planning in India . Edited by Terence J. Byres . Delhi : Oxford...

...Sooh-Rhee Ryu Protesting America: Democracy and the U.S.-Korea Alliance . By Katharine H. S. Moon . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . xi, 260 pp. $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Katharine Moon provides...

...Samuel Haig Jameson Hawaii's Japanese: an experiment in democracy . By Andrew W. Lind . Princeton University Press , 1946 . viii, 264 p. $3.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 BOOK REVIEWS 433 The chrysanthemum and the sword. BY RUTH BENEDICT. Boston...

..., 1947. $3.50. China's new democracy . By Mao Tse-tung . With an introduction by Earl Browder. New York : Workers Library Publishers , 1944 . Also China's new democracy, translation originally published by Sharaf Athar Ali, New Age Printing Press, Bombay, India, reprinted in the Bolton report...

...Amry Vandenbosch The stakes of democracy in Southeast Asia . By H. J. van Mook . New York : W. W. Norton and Company , 1950 . 312 p. $3.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 BOOK REVIEWS 335 elements to come to the fore (p. 316). Such a postulate...

...Robert E. Ward The Beginnings of Political Democracy in Japan . By Nobutaka Ike . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1950 . xvi, 246 p. $3.50. Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems . By Miram S. Farley , with a supplement By William T. Moran. New York : The John Day Company...

...Charles S. Blackton The allied occupation of Japan . By Edwin M. Martin . Stanford University Press , 1948 . xiv, 155 p. $3.00. The AAF against Japan . By Vern Haugland . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1948 . xvii, 515 p. $5.00. Prospects for democracy in Japan...

...Michael Brecher Nehru and Democracy . By Donald E. Smith . New York : Longmans, Green & Co. , 1959 . 194 . $5.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 224 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Mills book, now outdated but still a work of reference value, was good...

...Bernard S. Silberman Government and Politics in Japan. The Road to Democracy . By John M. Maki . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. , 1962 . xii , 275 . Bibliog., Index. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 10* anese principles...

...Herbert A. Levine Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 Labor Training in Developing Countries; A Challenge in Responsible Democracy . By Arnold Zack . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1964 . xiv, 189. Appendices, Index. $5.00. 144 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... periods and in varied Indian regional contexts? Juxtaposing these books enables us to pose the questions that emerge from one inquiry to the other, thus deepening our understanding of labor and democracy in Indian cities through the category of the “slum.” In Making the Modern Slum , Chhabria...

... University Press , 2018 . xv, 234 pp. ISBN: 9781108416139 (cloth). Politics of the Poor: Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India . By Indrajit Roy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xix, 521 pp. ISBN: 9781107117181 (cloth, also available as e-book). When Crime Pays...

... or chamcha , western Uttar Pradesh, North India). “A good politician is the one who can think fast and make things happen faster” (migrant laborer, twenty-three years old, Sylhet, Bangladesh). This article explores “the art of making do” ( jugaad) and the game of democracy across North India...

...Rana Mitter Conceptions of Chinese Democracy: Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo . By David J. Lorenzo . Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 . viii, 257 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper, ebook). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... Democracy in Japan: Quantitative Analysis in a Civil Society . By Yoshiaki Kobayashi . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2012 . xiii, 206 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $32.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 In 2009, the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP...

...Madeleine Yue Dong The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic . By Bryna Goodman . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2021 . 352 pp. ISBN: 9780674248823 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...