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...Chinnaiah Jangam The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India . By Anupama Rao . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 . xxi, 392 pp. $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 In recent times, there has been...

... investigates the manner in which history becomes a science through a detour that gives speech a regime of truth. It does this by exploring the nineteenth-century relationship of history to poetry and to truth in the context of the emerging discipline of history in Bengal. The question is discussed in relation...

...David P. Chandler Anatomy of a Crisis: Education, Development, and the State in Cambodia, 1953–1998 . By David M. Ayres . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2000 . xi, 256 pp. $54.00 (cloth). United States Foreign Policy Towards Cambodia, 1977–92: A Question of Realities...

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... communities. Methodologically, Goossaert and Palmer have made three contributions to the field. First, they highlight the diverse linkages between religion and secular politics. Scholars have long questioned the causal relationship between modernization and secularization. But in China, religions...

...Eva P. W. Hung Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness . By Cathryn H. Clayton . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2010 . xv, 420 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 In this very well-written...

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... by the state, and the attempt to underwrite economic development, all contributed to the Shan State's postwar need for financial aid from the Union Government. In answer to a question on state finances, U Saw Tha, Secretary for the Shan State, replied, “A major portion of the funds required...