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...Ralph L. Powell Party and Army: Professionalism and Political Control in the Chinese Officer Corps, 1949–1964 . By Ellis Joffe . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1965 . xii, 198 , Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index, n.p. (Paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Frances Taft Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21 . By DeWitt C. Ellinwood . Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books , 2005 . iv , 679 pp. $76.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 429 tion, he...

...Pradeep Barua 2 See Chander S. Sundaram , “ Preventing ‘Idleness’: The Maharaja of Cooch Behar's Proposal for Officer Commissions in the British Army for the Sons and Princes of Gentlemen, 1897–1898 ,” South Asia 18 , no. 1 ( 1995 ): 115 –30 ; Sundaram , “ Reviving...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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...

...Douglas E. Streusand The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices, and Titles to the Mughal Nobility (1574–1658) . By M. Athar Ali . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1985 . (Center of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University) xl, 378 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index...

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...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...