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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1160–1161.
Published: 01 November 1999
.... D. Little . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . viii, 404 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Counting the Poor—Where Are the Poor in India? . By Amaresh Dubey and Shubhashis Gangopadhyay . Sarvekshana Analytical Report no. 1. New Delhi : Department of Statistics, Government of India , 1998...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 264–266.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Christophe Jaffrelot Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India . By Tariq Thachil . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . 352 pp. ISBN 9781107070080 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 The very first sentence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (2): 241–242.
Published: 01 February 1961
...Donn V. Hart Philippine Bibliography I. An Annotated Preliminary Bibliography of Philippine Bibliographies (Since 1900) . By Charles O. Houston Jr. Manila : The University of Manila , 1960 . 69 . Errata sheet and index insert. $2.50. Philippine Studies: The Poor Relation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 238–239.
Published: 01 February 2021
...H. Hazel Hahn Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City . By Haydon Cherry . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 2019 . xviii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9780300218251 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Haydon Cherry's Down...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1105–1111.
Published: 01 November 2018
... University Press , 2018 . xv, 234 pp. ISBN: 9781108416139 (cloth). Politics of the Poor: Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India . By Indrajit Roy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xix, 521 pp. ISBN: 9781107117181 (cloth, also available as e-book). When Crime Pays...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 800–802.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Thak Chaloemtiarana The Assembly of the Poor in Thailand: From Local Struggles to National Protest Movement . By Bruce D. Missingham Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2003 . viii , 237 pp. $18.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 800 T H E J O U R N A L O...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 525–527.
Published: 01 May 2005
... on the development of mass media in Southeast Asia. CHARLOTTE KUO-BENITEZ Seattle The Assembly of the Poor in Thailand: From Local Struggles to National Protest Movement. By BRUCE D. MISSINGHAM. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2003. viii, 237 pp. $18.95 (paper). This book is an anthropological study of the Assembly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1274–1276.
Published: 01 November 2003
...John Zavos The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India . By Nandini Gooptu . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2001 . 490 pp. $80.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1274 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES conversations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Edward Friedman The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries . By Forrest Colburn . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1994 . 152 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 170 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES here or elsewhere is that local power...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 596–598.
Published: 01 May 1995
... Transition in a Poor Country . By Clare E. Humphrey . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1990 . xii, 275 pp. $36.50 (paper). 596 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The last three articles, by Paola Bacchetta, Fareed Kazmi, and Mukul Kesavan, differ (as does Elizabeth Mann's chapter, in part): they are more...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of the early Republican and warlord period devastated the local economy, creating an army of poor whose ranks were swelled by bankrupt Manchus, discharged soldiers, and peasants who were uprooted from villages by natural disasters and fighting between warlords. In contrast, Shanghai attracted rural laborers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 750–752.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Sandria B. Freitag The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c. 1850–1920 . By Tapati Guha-Thakurta . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xxvii, 351 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India . By Sara Dickey...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 884–885.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Ruth Ammerman Yabes Faith in Asia's Poor: Ten Paths to Rural Development. Biographies of Ramon Magsaysay Foundation Awardees . Edited by Mae Handy Esterline . Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America , 1990 . xiii, 192 pp. $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 597–624.
Published: 01 August 2004
...–1901 . Hull : Hull University Press . Two Views of the Minahasa; or, Whatever Happened to the Poor, Heathen Bushnatives? RITA SMITH KIPP The representation of other cultures invariably entails the presentation of selfportraits, in that those people who are observed are overshadowed or eclipsed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 221–222.
Published: 01 February 1993
...James R. Rush Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance In Java . By Nancy Lee Peluso . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . xv, 336 pp. $45.00. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 221 Rich...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 200–201.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Ravi Gulhati Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 The Great Ascent: The Rural Poor in South Asia . By Inderjit Singh . Baltimore and London : The John Hopkins University Press , published for The World Bank, 1990 . xxvii, 444 pp. $39.95. 200 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1047–1048.
Published: 01 November 1993
...John Echeverri-Gent Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Rural India . By Nikhilesh Bhattacharya , Dipankor Coondoo , Pradip Maiti , and Robin Mukherjee . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1991 . 236 pp. $28.50. Against the Few: Struggles of India's Rural Poor . By Arun Sinha...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 697–698.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Beth Roy Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Social Action and the Labouring Poor: An Experience . By Primila Lewis . New Delhi : Vistaar Publications , 1991 . 267 pp. Rs. 95.00. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 697 India's unchanging attitudes and institutions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 868–870.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Sanjib Baruah The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States . By John Echeverri-Gent . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . 312 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Agricultural Growth, Rural Poverty and Environmental Degradation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 566–568.
Published: 01 May 1998
... information in the descriptions of artists' lineages, but with the caveat to beware the subjunctives. ELLEN S. SMART San Diego, California The Agrarian Drama: The Leftists and the Rural Poor in India, 1934 1951. By A M I T K U M A R G U P T A . New Delhi: Manohar, 1996. xiv, 516 pp. Rs. 550.00 (cloth...