...George Ginsburgs Land and Polity in Tibet . By Pedro Carrasco . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1959 . iv, 307 . Notes, Bibliography, Index. $55.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 463 resent the recurring excursions...

... about the thousands of years since the end of the last Ice Age. It is ultimately a paradox that a historian should draw such an ahistorical picture of his subject. Himalayan Histories: Economy, Polity, Religious Traditions . By Chetan Singh . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2019...

...). Militant Publics in India: Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity . By Arafaat Valiani . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . xiv, 266 pp. $95.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 The 2002 pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat...

...Ralph Braibanti Thailand: The Modernization of a Bureaucratic Polity . By Fred W. Riggs . Honolulu : East-West Center Press , 1966 . x, 470 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 347 exists in Thailand...

...Robert H. Taylor The Burmese Polity, 1752–1819: Politics, Administration, and Social Organization in the Early Kon-baung Period . By William J. Koenig . Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 34. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies...

... further research. CHANG-TAI HUNG Carleton College National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China. By M I N T U - K I . Edited by P H I L I P A. K U H N and T I M O T H Y B R O O K . Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University and the Harvard Yenching...

...Surjit Mansingh Sangam Polity: The Administration and Social Life of the Sangam Tamils . By N. Subrahmanian . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1968 . xvi , 424 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $9.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 897...

...Scott R. Christensen Business Associations and the New Political Economy of Thailand: From Bureaucratic Polity to Liberal Corporatism . By Anek Laothamatas . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1992 . xiii, 202 pp. $44.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993...

...Kenneth R. Hall The Southeast Asian Port and Polity: Rise and Demise . Edited by J. Kathirithamby-Wells and John Villiers . Singapore : Singapore University Press , 1990 . xiii, 265 pp. $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Melford E. Spiro World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background . By S. J. Tambiah . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1976 . viii, 557 pp. Bibliography, Index. $37.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Benedict R. Anderson Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity . By J. Joseph Errington . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press , 1985 . (Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series...

...David Joel Steinberg The Philippine Polity: A Japanese View . By Rōyama Masamichi and Takéuchi Tatsuji . Translated by Takéuchi Tatsuji . Edited by Theodore Friend . Monograph Series No. 12, Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University , 1967 . xxx, 293 pp. Appendices. Paper. $9.50...

...John T. Hitchcock Rana Polity in Nepal: Origin and Growth . By Satish Kumar . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1967 . 195 pp. Map, Appendices, Index. $4.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS Muslim nationalist movement to a ruthlessly...

... as a microcosm of the contemporary Thai nation. Several competing ideologies, such as class and the notion of polity, were at play, reflecting a sociopolitical struggle at the national level. Employing urban ethnography as a method of investigation, Herzfeld reveals that the Chao Pom were able to remain intact...

...Michael H. Fisher Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India . By Sanjay Subrahmanyam . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2001 . xvi , 295 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 764 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Bruce Nussbaum Pacific Polities: Asian, Australasian, Oceanic . Edited by I. F. Nicolson and Colin A. Hughes . Carlton, Victoria : Pitman Pacific Books , 1972 . 286 pp. Maps, Statistical ppendix, Bibliography, Index, n.p.l. (paperback). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Samuel Wright Abstract This paper examines the values that informed the actions of two polities in seventeenth-century Bengal, the Nadia Raj and the Malla dynasty, through a close analysis of their temple inscriptions—a form of royal laudation or praśasti . Focusing on this inscriptional record...

...Deborah E. Tooker Abstract In this article, I argue that the ‘mandala’ and other spatialized concepts associated with the ‘cosmic polity’ in Southeast Asia (such as ‘exemplary center’ and ‘sinking status’, ‘galactic polity’, ‘concentric circles’, ‘nested emboxment’, etc.) are key concepts...

...Richard Burghart Abstract At the turn of the nineteenth century three different indigenous concepts were central to the Nepalese understanding of their polity. These were the possessions ( muluk ) of the king, the realm ( deśa ), and the countries (also deśa or des ) of a people. Each...

... parallel developments in territorial consolidation, administrative centralization, and cultural integration that strengthened lowland polities at the expense of outlying areas. What made it all possible was the convergence of a number of factors: the expansion of material resources, new cultural currents...