...Stanley A. Kochanek The Indian Prime Minister: Office and Powers . By L. N. Sharma . Delhi : Macmillan Company of India , 1976 . xii , 207 pp. Charts, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 55.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 BOOK REVIEWS 785 all. Inevitably...

...James R. Pusey Hai Jui Dismissed from Office . By Wu Han . Translated by C. C. Huang . Introductory Essay by D. W. Kwok. Honolulu : The University of Hawaii Press , 1972 . 147 pp. Bibliography. $2.50 (paperback). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 226...

...Richard Ettinghausen Natural History Drawings in the Indian Office Library . By Mildred Archer . London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office , 1962 . ix , 116 . 25 Plates. Bibliography, Index. 27s 6d. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 250 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Gordon P. Means An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore. From the Foundation of the Settlement under the Honourable The East India Company on February 6th, 1819 to the Transfer to the Colonial Office of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown on April 1st, 1867 . By Charles Burton...

...Victor Lieberman Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 Catalogue of the Burney Parabaiks in the India Office Library . By Thaung Blackmore . London : The British Library (Oriental Documents, no. 7), 1985 . xiv, 120 pp. Appendix, Bibliography. $30. 644 JOURNAL...

...James H. Nye A General Guide to the India Office Records . By Martin Moir . London : The British Library , 1988 . xvi, 331 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 442 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES little researched, view of Bandaranaike as a Sinhalese...

... (1864–69), Lord Northbrook (1872–76), the Marquess of Lansdowne (1888–94), and the 9th Earl of Elgin (1894–99). 3 It will include a supplement describing the fragmentary Stein Chinese manuscripts. 4 The India Office records, in common with other official records of the United Kingdom...

...Lynn Zastoupil The India Office, 1858–1869 . By Donovan Williams . Hoshiarpur : Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute , 1983 . 590 pp. Appendixes, Index. Rs. 250; $40. (Distributed in the United States by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

... in the 1950s. The roots of the Koizumi reforms go deep: it was the latest in successive attempts in the postwar period to reform commissioned post offices (and more generally, the bureaucracy). Each such attempt resulted in institutional changes that altered the game for the next set of reform efforts. Koizumi...

...John K. Musgrave Catalogue of Burmese Printed Books in the India Office Library . Compiled by Kenneth Whitbread . London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office , 1969 . xi, 231 , Index of Persons, Subject Index, $18.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK...

...Leigh R. Wright The British in West Sumatra (1685–1825), a selection of documents, mainly from the East India Company Records preserved in the India Office Library ., Commonwealth Relations Office, London. With an Introduction and Notes by John Bastin . Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya...

...Milton Israel John Morley at the India Office: 1905–1910 . By Stephen Koss . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1969 . viii, 231 pp. Bibliography, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 199 John Morley at the India Office: 1905...

...Joyce Gelb Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies . By Yuko Ogasawara . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1998 . xii, 221 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 438...

...Saeed Shafqat Public Office, Private Interest: Bureaucracy and Corruption in India . By S. K. Das . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2001 . 252 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1085 interest...

...N. G. Barrier Catalogue of Panjabi Printed Books Added to the India Office Library, 1902–1964 . Compiled By Ganesh Gaur . London : Foreign and Commonwealth Office , 1975 . xi, 404 pp. £17.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 575 as a single genre...

... as well as the Chinese themselves. The English language records of the Foreign Office and missionary archives in London have already been consulted by scholars from all over the world. The recent addition of Chinese language materials, deposited at the Public Record Office (hereafter, PRO), undoubtedly...

... 1969 1 India Office Library (IOL) to British Museum (BM), Sept. 13, 1877, India Correspondence (BM Archives). One source of information on publications was a list of pamphlets prepared by several provincial governments along the lines suggested by the Royal Asiatic Society. Discussion in GIP...

... and the manner in which the conflicting organs of Japanese policy-making handled it have remained obscure. The attempt here is to supply these details and analyze the affair with particular reference to the role of the Japanese Foreign Office and the growing civil-military conflict over the control of foreign...

... and then in the hands of their students. JOANNE PUNZO WAGHORNE University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Nehru to the Nineties: The Changing Office of the Prime Minister of India. Edited by JAMES M A N O R . Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994. 261 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Professor James...

...Ssu-yü Têng Foreign mud; being an account of the opium, imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese war that followed . By Maurice Collis . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1947 . x, 300 p. $5.00. Old China hands and the Foreign Office . By Nathan A. Pelcovits . New...