... on the international dimensions of the conflict. GREGG BRAZINSKY George Washington University SOUTH ASIA Labour Legislation and Trade Unions in India and Pakistan. By A n AMJAD. Foreword by F A K H R U D D I N G. EBRAHIM. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix, 190 pp. $27.50 (cloth). In the field of South Asian...

...Alice H. Cook The Politics of Labor Legislation in Japan . By Ehud Harari . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : University of California Press , 1973 . xi, 221 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Leela Fernandes The Women's Movement and Colonial Politics in Bengal: The Quest for Political Rights, Education and Social Reform Legislation ., 1921–36. By Barbara Southard . New Delhi : Manohar , 1995 . x, 317 pp. $26.00 (cloth). Beyond Purdah?: Women in Bengal ., 1890–1939...

...A. Arthur Schiller Abstract As in the world at large, so in the Netherlands Indies, labor law as such is a relatively modern development. Within the last score of years the legislative arm of the Indies government has attempted to satisfy the labor demands of an ever-expanding agricultural...

...Merrill R. Goodall Land Tenure Legislation in Uttar Pradesh . By Frank J. Moore and Constance A. Freydig . Modern India Project, Monograph No. 1. Berkeley : South Asia Studies, Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University of California , 1955 . iii, 124 . Appendices, Glossary...

...Gordon Mathews Out of the Shadow of 1997? The 2000 Legislative Council Election in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region . Edited by Kuan Hsin-chi , Lau Siukai , and Timothy Ka-ying Wong . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2002 . xviii, 364 pp. $26.00 (paper). Copyright...

...C. P. Bhambhri Legislative Recruitment and Political Integration: Patterns of Political Linkage in an Indian State . By Richard Sisson and Lawrence L. Shrader . Berkeley : University of California, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies , 1972 . Research Monograph Series No. 6. n.p...

...Byron Mook Legislators, Development, and Representation in Sri Lanka: The Decentralization of Development Planning . By Robert C. Oberst . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1985 . xiv, 157 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $17 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...David Gilmartin Legislative Politics and the Freedom Struggle in the Punjab, 1897–1947 . By Satya M. Rai . New Delhi : Indian Council of Historical Research , 1984 . xviii, 373 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Rs 100. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Craig Baxter Muslim Identity and Community Consciousness: Bengal Legislative Politics 1912–36 . By Asim Pada Chakrabarti . Calcutta : Minerva Associates Pvt. Ltd. , 1993 . vii, 224 pp. $25.00 (cloth). The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India 1900–1910...

...Ki Song Oh The Legislative Process in Korea . By Chong Lim Kim and Seong Tong Pai . Seoul : Seoul National University Press , 1981 . vxi, 320 pp. Tables, Figures, References, Index. $8. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 685 passed: labor...

...Fred W. Riggs The Legislative Process of Local Governments . By Juan F. Rivera . Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press , 1956 . xvi, 392 . Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $6.25. Law of Public Administration . By Juan F. Rivera . Caloocan, Rizal : Kiko Printing...

... , cautions social scientists against too readily assuming that a mere description of the sociological characteristics of parliamentarians automatically provides an explanation for their legislative behavior, but adds diat perfectionist standards for such inferences may be equally dangerous since sociological...

... whereby these parties became committed to the legislation, and also examines the reaction to the issue on the part of other elements which had at least a potential voice in this legislation: the nonparty cabinets which governed from 1922 to 1924, the privy council, the House of Peers, and the genro...

... legislation either as incumbents in fiscal offices or as members of Imperial advisory organs. The financial specialist was seen as possessing a specific body of expertise—administrative ability, talent in mathematics, a knowledge of classical Chinese monetary theory and familiarity with the history...

... use, a fact which has been recognized by its incorporation, in a modified form, into the Chinese Civil Code. Then again it affords a striking example of an attempt by the Chinese government in Imperial times to develop by legislation the scope and purpose of an institution of private customary law...

...Deborah Sutton Abstract This article considers the relationship between the official, legislated claims of heritage conservation in India and the wide range of episodic and transitory inhabitations that have animated and transformed the monumental remains of the city, or rather cities, of Delhi...

... fled the city (1995, 26–27). It is a shift in which the once-local, nativist party in Bombay, the Shiv Sena, now finds itself the dominant political force in the state of Maharashtra, with a ready capacity to incite widespread violence, extract rents, and shape public policy and legislative initiatives...

... endeavored to learn the British art of governing and to benefit from the blessings of the British constitution. They demanded representation in the legislative councils, a greater share for Indians in the civil service, protection for Indian industries and reduction in unproductive public expenditure. Since...

... as the essential pillars of the new regime. Arisugawa was a Prince Imperial, who had been raised to the position of vice-president in 1880. He had been chairman of the legislative Genrōin that included several prominent members antipathetic to Satsuma and Chōshū dominance of the government. While Sanjō and Iwakura...