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

...Melford E. Spiro Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 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...

...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...

...Bhanubhatra Jittiang In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand . By Tyrell Haberkorn . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2017 . xix, 349 pp. ISBN: 9780299314408 (cloth). Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok . By Michael Herzfeld . Chicago...

...Scott R. Christensen Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 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...

...Prasenjit Duara National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China . By Min Tu-ki . Edited by Philip A. Kuhn and Timothy Brook . Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University and the Harvard Yenching Institute , 1990 . 309 pp. $26.00...

...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...

... 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 . xi, 303 pp...

... 2013 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). Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India . By Parvis Ghassem...

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

... serve to reinforce the general feeling of this reader that the book is mistitled and that the author has no grasp of the events of the Emergency beyond some files he came across in Ministry of Defence archives. RICHARD STUBBS McMaster University The Southeast Asian Port and Polity: Rise and Demise...

...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...

...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...

... . By SiuSue Mark . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2023 . 248 pp. ISBN: 9780824894290 . Outsourcing the Polity: Non-state Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar . By Gerard McCarthy . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2023 . 282 pp. ISBN: 9781501767975...

... paralleling changes in the Sinhalese polity (p. 170), nor to the intrusion of caste into the Sangha which Gombrich sees as most at odds with orthodoxy (p. 306). The book might have benefited from a more systematic comparison of Gombrich's views and findings with those of other students of Ceylon...

...Michael H. Fisher Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 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). 764 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...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...

...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...

...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...