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... two decades of the twentieth. Before that time the phase of Hindi known as Braj, spoken chiefly around Mathura, had been preferred to khaṟī bolī , the Hindi of the Delhi-Meerut region. The credit for the triumph of khaṟī bolī is usually attributed to Pandit Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, who devoted himself...

...Leela Prasad Jassal's understanding of local issues of social justice and gender and labor inequities—which informs the critical appreciation of women's songs—draws on her own involvement in various NGOs and other activist groups. Bracketed by a well-synthesized introduction and conclusion...

...Pradhan H. Prasad Agrarian Crisis in India: The Case of Bihar . By F. Tomasson Jannuzi . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1974 . x, 233 pp. Maps, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $10.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK REVIEWS 345 bada Valley (Bombay...

...Leela Prasad A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan . Translated, with an introduction and afterword, by Ann Grodzins Gold . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . xviii, 368 pp...

...Nidhi Prasad These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia . By Alexander Bukh . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2020 . xvi, 213 pp. ISBN: 9781503611894 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021...

...Bimla Prasad Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 Government and Politics of India and Pakistan 1885–1955: A Bibliography of Works in Western Languages . Compiled and edited by Patrick Wilson. Modern India Project, Bibliographical Study No. 2. Berkeley : South...

...Anshu Malhotra In this compelling and persuasively written book, Prasad makes the concept of sovereignty capacious to accommodate counterhegemonic lives and stories; she, as much as her protagonists, achieves narrative justice through practicing narratological ethics. Prasad's storytellers were...

...Wendy Singer Living Martyrs: Individuals and Revolution in Nepal . By James F. Fisher with Tanka Prasad Acharya and Rewanta Kumari Acharya . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1997 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 546 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...DeWitt C. Ellinwood A Survey of the Work Done on the Military History of India . By S. N. Prasad . Calcutta : K. P. Bagchi & Company, for the Indian Council of Historical Research , 1976 . 98 pp. Bibliography. Rs. 20.00. Britain's Army in India: From Its Origins to the Conquest...

... looked upon as criticism of the state itself. As a result legitimate partisan criticism may be regarded as anti-nationalist or subversive. 63 Unpublished Prasad Papers, Nehru J. , Note for The Congress President , July 15, 1947 . 64 Indian Nation (Patna), February 19, 1948...

...Robert I. Crane Autobiography . By Rajendra Prasad . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1957 . x, 624 . Index. Rs. 22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 520 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES be held conveniently accountable for an error which Stalin himself...

...Dennis Dalton Gandhi and His Critics . By B. R. Nanda . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1985 . ix, 178 pp. Notes, Index. Rs. 85 ($17.95). (Published in U.S. by Oxford University Press, New York.) Gandhi, Nehru, and J. P.: Studies in Leadership . By Bimal Prasad . Delhi...

...Michael Herzfeld Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town . By Leela Prasad . New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . xv , 291 pp. $75.50 (cloth); $25.50 (paper) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...Norman D. Palmer India's Foreign Policy: Studies in Continuity and Change . Edited by Bimal Prasad . New Delhi : Vikas Publishing , 1979 . 520 pp. Select Bibliography, Index. Rs. 150. Janata's Foreign Policy . Edited by K. P. Misra . New Delhi : Vikas Publishing , 1979 . 234 pp...

...: A Historical Construction. By M. MADHAVA PRASAD. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 258 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Pakistan Cinema, 1947-1997. By M U S H T A Q G A Z D A R . The Jubilee Series. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 356 pp. $75.00 (cloth). These two books on Indian and Pakistani cinema...

...Holden Furber Early English Travellers in India: A Study in the Travel Literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods with Particular Reference to India . By Ram Chandra Prasad . Delhi, Patna, Varanasi : Motilal Banarsi Dass , 1965 . xxii, 392 pp. Rs. 25. Copyright ©...

... is likely to remain the definitive work on Indian Communism for a long time to come. Stanford University ROBERT C. NORTH Autobiography. By RAJENDRA PRASAD. Bombay: Asia "Publishing House, 1957. x, 624. Index. Rs. 22.50. Publication of the Autobiography of the first President of the Republic of India...

.... STEVE BARNETT Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Survey of the Work Done on the Military History of India. By S. N. PRASAD. Calcutta: K. P. Bagchi & Company, for the Indian Council of Historical Research, 1976. 98 pp. Bibliography. Rs. 20.00. Britain's Army in India: From Its Origins...

...Joan V. Bondurant At the Feet of Mahatma Gandhi . By Rajendra Prasad . New York : Philosophical Library , 1955 . vii, 350 . $6.00. In the Shadow of the Mahatma: A Personal Memoir . By G. D. Birla . Foreword by Rajendra Prasad. Bombay : Orient Longmans , 1955 . xx, 281...