...Daniel Thorner Next Step in Village India: A Study of Land Reform and Group Dynamics . By Baljit Singh . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . viii, 135 . Tables, Appendices, Index. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 431 quite...

...Felix M. Keesing Work and Life on Raroia: An Acculturation Study from the Tuamotu Group in French Oceania . By Bengt Danielsson . New York : Macmillan , 1957 . 244 . Photographs, Maps, Tables, Bibliography. $5.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 324...

...Millard B. Rogers Indonesia: The Art of an Island Group . By Frits A. Wagner . New York : McGraw-Hill , 1959 . Translated from the German by Ann E. Keep . 257. Appendices, Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps. Illustrated in color. Kunst der Welt series. Ancient Indonesian Art...

...” and the Anglo-Indians). Events of the contemporary nationalist revolution in Asia have increased public awareness of the problems of these minority groups. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 1 The term “community” has the meaning in India of “ethnic group,” namely...

...Kamer Aga-Oglu Fourteenth-Century Blue-and-White: A Group of Chinese Porcelains in the Topkapu Sarayi Müzesi, Istanbul . By John Alexander Pope . Smithsonian Institution , Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers, Vol. II , No. 1. Publication 4089. Washington , 1952 . 85 p. Copyright ©...

...Charles H. Heimsath Language Conflict and National Development: Group Politics and National Language Policy in India . By Jyotirindra Das Gupta . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1970 . viii, 293 pp. Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $6.75. Copyright © The Association...

... custom of principally theological significance. This paper portrays some complexities in the formulation, maintenance, and recent intensification of ancestor lore in a particular group through time. Our subject is a large Sudra group in Tabanan district: how its members explain the origin of their house...

...Ronald N. Montaperto Political Culture and Group Conflict in Communist China . By Alan P. Liu . Santa Barbara : Clio Books , 1976 . xvii, 202 pp. Map, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $17.95 (cloth); $5.75 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 528...

...Rita Smith Kipp The People of the Alas Valley: A Study of an Ethnic Group of Northern Sumatra . By Akifumi Iwabuchi . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1994 . xxi, 241 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 899 the final chapter, he...

...Anthony P. D'Costa New Fiscal and Economic Strategies for Growth in Developing Countries . By S. S. Kothari . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xviii, 306 pp. Rs. 406. The Political Economy of Suppressed Markets: Controls, Rent Seeking and Interest Group Behaviour...

... Religious Group Movements . By Douglas J. Elwood . Dumaguete City, Philippines : Silliman University , 1968 , xi , 213 pp. Silliman University Monograph. Series A (Religious Studies), No. 1. Appendices. $2.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS The declared...

...Israel Epstein; Elsie Epstein BAAG, British Army Aid Group, Hong Kong Resistance 1942–1945 . By Edwin Ride . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1981 . 347 pp. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 935 Murphey's work...

...Frank F. Conlon South Asian Bibliography: A Handbook and Guide Compiled by the South Asia Library Group . General editor, J. D. Pearson , Hassocks, Sussex : Harvester Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1979 . xiii, 381 pp. Index, $87.50. Copyright © The Association...

...Richard P. Tucker Towards Nationalism: Group Affiliations and the Politics of Public Associations in Nineteenth Century Western India . BY J. C. Masselos . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1974 . xi, 332 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. RS. 60.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

... the leading military, administrative, and economic groups within Bengal. Shortly after 1700, Murshid Quli Khan, first as Diwan and later as Nawab of Bangal, began a series of revenue and administrative reforms. By increasing revenue collections, he was able to satisfy the demands of the central government...

...Jean Grossholtz The Development of an Interest Group: The Philippine Medical Association . By Robert B. Stauffer . Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press , 1966 . xi, 192 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. P12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967...

...Lyman P. Van Slyke Dixie Mission: The United States Army Observer Group in Yenan, 1944 . By David D. Barrett . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1970 . 95 pp. Paperback, $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 672 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Melford E. Spiro The Muslims of Burma: A Study of a Minority Group . By Moshe Yegar . Wiesbaden : Verlag Otto Harrassowitz , 1972 . xiii, 151 pp. Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography, Indices. DM 38.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Marion J. Levy, Jr 326 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY political groups, as well as constant co-operation with them during the period of tutelage. But is there not implicit in the idea of one-party rule the danger of removal or exclusion of political views and groups considered inimical to its interests...

...Donald M. Peppard, Jr. Strategies for Learning: Small-Group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry . By Robert E. Cole . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1989 . xvi, 338 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 396 THE JOURNAL...