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...Graham Saunders Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III and Britain: The Making of Brunei Darussalam . By A. B. Hussainmiya . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xxix, 447 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 258 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... the space for Omar and Lowe to act out a queer intimacy that draws them together across the distance of race, class, and gender and that opens channels of communication that work against Lowe's isolation and Omar's distrust. Lowe's burgeoning affective bonds lead him to inquire also into the history...

... then was not exercised, and no adviser was appointed for another thirty years. While the Temenggong was useful to the British, their alliance also supported his influence, and this provoked jealousy among other rulers. 'Ali, a claimant to the sultanate of Johore, had to be bought off in the treaty of 1855. Sultan Omar...

...Bruce La Brack Indian Muslims in North America . Edited by Omar Khalidi . Watertown, Mass. : South Asia Press , 1991 . vii, 99 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 960 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Indian Muslims in North America. Edited by OMAR...

...Milton J. Esman Market Power, Vertical Linkages, and Government Policy: The Fish Industry in Peninsular Malaysia . By Ishak Haji Omar . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xii, 192 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS...

... Javed Burki on "Politics of Power and its Economic Imperatives: Pakistan, 1947 1999," Omar Noman on "An Uncivil Society: The Role of Shadow Privatization, Conflict and Ideology in the Governance of Pakistan," and Hasan Askari Rizvi on "The Military." Finally, the last section ("New Contenders and Issues...

.... 16 Nandi also presents data on the “Omar” Sabha, although on many points his information is in disagreement with my own. Nandi, pp. 91–92. 15 This definition follows Srinivas' usage with reference to caste in its ritual and social aspects. Srinivas (1962), pp. 3–4. 14 Bailey, p...

...Ravina Aggarwal Khaki and the Ethnic Violence in Indai: Army, Police, and Paramilitary Forces during Communal Riots . By Omar Khalidi . New Delhi : Three Essays Collective , 2003 . xiii , 126 pp. $25.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004...

.... Edited by OMAR KHALIDI. Watertown, Mass.: South Asia Press, 1991. vii, 99 pp. This slim volume grew out of a 1989 conference held at the Bechtel International Center at Stanford sponsored by the Indian Muslim Relief Committee of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). The aim of the conference...

... College Khaki and the Ethnic Violence in India: Army, Police, and Paramilitary Forces during Communal Riots. By OMAR KHALIDI. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective, 2003. xiii, 126 pp. $25.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). The involvement of women and minorities in the human rights abuses and torture of Iraqi...

...Usha Sanyal Indian Muslims Since Independence . By Omar Khalidi . New Delhi : Vikas , 1995 . xii, 246 pp. Rs. 295 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 233 resistance. Throughout, the narration is buttressed by useful...

... Anwar Ali on "Business and Power in Pakistan," Shahid Javed Burki on "Politics of Power and its Economic Imperatives: Pakistan, 1947 1999," Omar Noman on "An Uncivil Society: The Role of Shadow Privatization, Conflict and Ideology in the Governance of Pakistan," and Hasan Askari Rizvi on "The Military...

... as an appropriate text for both undergraduate and graduate students in classes on (international) rural sociology and agricultural development. JILL M. BELSKY University of Montana Market Power, Vertical Linkages, and Government Policy: The Fish Industry in Peninsular Malaysia. By ISHAK H A J I OMAR. Kuala Lumpur...

..., historians and others concerned generally with ritual violence. R O B E R T L. W I N Z E L E R University of Nevada, Reno Sultan Omar AH Saifuddin III and Britain: The Making of Brunei Darussalam. By A. B. HUSSAINMIYA. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxix, 447 pp. $45.00. Dr. Hussainmiya...

.... One of the points that most bothered me in Ala's two books (both the Uyghur and English versions) was the author's emphasis on the fundamental role played by the testimony of Omar Bekali in the media coverage of the crisis. Bekali was the first among the Uyghur and Kazakh survivors who revealed...

... Tongues, One People, Guneratne acknowledges the fact of genetic adaptation through alphathalassemia in the Tharu, as revealed to him through the intermediary of Omar Shafey's "Medical Pluralism among the Tharu People of Far West Nepal" (Ph.D. diss., University of California, San Francisco...

... universities. Omar Said Tjokroaminoto's (1882–1934) discussion on Islamic socialism during his lifetime and Hamka's (1908–1981) grappling with scientific discoveries despite not spending time in any Western university demonstrate that attempts toward fusionist thinking existed before Indonesians sojourned...

... Pervez Musharraf. Syed Zulfiqar Gilani was a member of the National Reconstruction Bureau in Islamabad and Omar Asghar Khan the federal minister for Environment, Local Government, and Rural Development. Although the volume does not deal to any extent with postcoup developments, it clearly conveys...

..., it is not for antiquarians and locomotive enthusiasts. ROBERT G. VARADY University of Arizona Indian Muslims Since Independence. By O M A R K H A L I D I . New Delhi: Vikas, 1995. xii, 246 pp. Rs. 295 (cloth). Omar Khalidi examines the condition of India's Muslim population since independence and partition in 1947, until...

...William Case Bangsa Melayu: Malay Concepts of Democracy and Community, 1945–1950 . By Ariffin Omar . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvi, 251 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 983 In a crucial...