...Roy Andrew Miller Japanese Pidgin English in Hawaii: A Bilingual Description. . By Susumu Nagara . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1972 . 322 pp. Tables, References, Appendices. $6.50 (paperback). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 1...

... and Punjab Provinces of Pakistan, along the Indus and in the Salt Range. Largely built of coarse kanjar stone blocks, these works belong in broad terms to the northern Indian, Nagara tradition of temple architecture. At an early stage some are of the phamsana kind—crowned by layers of moulded eaves...

... of the examples I cite are noted by Nagara; he tells us, considerately, how to pronounce American English 'baseball,' but passes in silence over the -s- / discrepancy in his pidgin forms). Under 'same,' for example, I strongly suspect the forms in s are correct, and that they continue the pronunciation...

...) as one temple order, Nagara (northern) as another, while describing shrines in Karnataka, from the seventh century onwards, as including elements of Dravida and Nagara in inventive ways. Vesara temples continue this Karnatak tradition of eclecticism. Sinha, however, appropriately and forcefully questions...

... and the 18th century . . . to serve India's symbolic and religious needs." This particular portion covers the Northern or Nagara style from its inception into the eighth century, with an appended section on the non-Nagara style of Kashmir. Unlike previous parts of the encyclopedia, the signed chapters...

... temples in Nagara style have been "arbitrarily excluded." These have, however, been published in the North-Indian volumes of the Encyclopaedia (North India: Foundations of North Indian Style, Princeton: Princeton University Press 1988) where they can properly be compared with other Nagara structures...

... have dismissed these temples as a puzzle, or worse, as derivative. Historians recognize Dravida (southern) as one temple order, Nagara (northern) as another, while describing shrines in Karnataka, from the seventh century onwards, as including elements of Dravida and Nagara in inventive ways. Vesara...

... imagery. Only when one turns to the questions of personal names and religious convictions does a more concrete division between the Chinese and peranakan groups begin to emerge. People designated in the Dutch sources as peranakan consistently bear Javanese as opposed to Chinese names. Raksa Nagara, [Ki...

..., Ceylon, and the Khmer Empire. Stylistic connections with India are stressed with exact reference and comparison to illustrated images of the Kusana, Andhra, Gupta, Pallava, and Cola dynasties. Analysis of form is devoted mainly to iconography of Visnu images (from Nagara Sri Dharmaraja, Takuapa, Petburi...

... the preceding chapters. In part one, Mrs. Stevenson has laboriously described the sacramental life cycle of a hypothetical and composite Brahman, a Saivite of the Nagara caste living in the vicinity of Rajkot. Part two delineates the various times of the day, month, and year which require ritual response...

...) and then in modern orthography. Separate translations into Thai are given for passages in other languages, and notes are provided on words and phrases unclear in the text. In almost all cases the readings and modern versions are the work of mahd Prasan Bunprakhong with the expert assistance of Dr. Prasert na Nagara...

... character, with assonant echoes of borrowed Sanskrit (jdhgha vs. ja'nghd, rdha vs. ratha, bdda vs. pdda) and local usages (gandi [khanda?] vs. s'ikhara, jagamohana vs. gudhamandapa) that require constant mental translation in making comparisons to elements of Nagara temples elsewhere in India. However...

... and the 18th century . . . to serve India's symbolic and religious needs." This particular portion covers the Northern or Nagara style from its inception into the eighth century, with an appended section on the non-Nagara style of Kashmir. Unlike previous parts of the encyclopedia, the signed chapters...

...: A Sociological Approach,” Initiation, ed. By C.J. Bleeker, Vol. X of Studies in the History of Religions, Supplements to Numen (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965), p. 217. 16 For an assessment of Lidaiya's reign based on epigraphical studies of A. B. Griswold and Prasert na Nagara, see Barbara Andaya...

... nearly a thousand years of sustained architectural activity, present a unique opportunity to trace the gradual evolution of a regional manifestation of the Nagara style of architecture. For the most part, however, scholarly research has been limited to the temples at Bhubaneswar, while those...

...Shanti S. Tangri Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 The Economy of India . By V. N. Balasubramanyam . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1985 . xiv, 241 pp. Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index. $25. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1089 as Nagara...

... Luce (on Pagan), A. B. Griswold and Prasert na Nagara (on Sukhothai and Lannathai), or Charnwit Kasetsiri (on early Ayutthaya), to mention only the more obvious he repeats a series of outdated interpretations of the history of the period. His review, in chapters Two and Three, of the religiopolitical...

... different terms, khadura and kantha, for the same architectural feature). Aside from pedantic terminology, another major conceptual flaw in the methodology employed in the encyclopedia may be noted. Without explanation, the editors have arbitrarily excluded from this volume all Nagara-style temples...

...). Aside from pedantic terminology, another major conceptual flaw in the methodology employed in the encyclopedia may be noted. Without explanation, the editors have arbitrarily excluded from this volume all Nagara-style temples (that is, those with curvilinear superstructures), even though...