...Rupert Emerson Siam Under Rama III . By Walter F. Vella . Locust Valley, N. Y. : J. J. Augustin Incorporated , 1957 . ix, 180 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 468 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ing from India. After settling north of the Yangtze in what...

... that he has not recognized the very same brahmanical cow under these two names, with the result that the "motif" should not be made more Vasistha than Bhargava? But because of the ksatriya leanings of Rama, because of Sukra's association with the asuras and other obviously deviant features...

... University of California, Santa Barbara Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India. By STUART BLACKBURN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvi, 291 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). Stuart Blackburn begins this study of the tol pdva kuttu shadow-puppet tradition...

...David Shulman Abstract This paper examines the problem of theodicy as seen by the medieval Tamil poet, Kampaṉ. God appears throughout Kampaṉ's retelling of the Rāmāyaṋa as the ideal man, Rāma, an incarnation of the great god Viṣṋu, the source of the moral law and universal order ( dharma...

...Arvind Sharma The Rise of the Religious Significance of Rāma . By Frank Whaling . New Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1980 . xiv , 327 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Secondary Works, Glossary, Index. Rs. 100 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK...

...David K. Wyatt The Restoration of Thailand Under Rama I, 1782–1809 ., By Klaus Wenk . Translated by Greeley Stahl . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1968 , xi, 149 pp., Index, $7.50. The Association for Asian Studies: Monographs and Papers, No. XXIV. Copyright © The Association...

...Sally J. M. Sutherland Righteous Rāma: The Evolution of an Epic . By J. L. Brockington . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1984 . x, 363 pp. $32.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 396 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N STUDIES within a frame...

...Veena Talwar Oldenburg Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom . By Ved Mehta . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1994 . xii, 194 pp. $20.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 753 in its statement of the legal...

...Santosh N. Desai Abstract This paper examines the role of the Hindu Epic Rāmāyaṇa in the historical and cultural contact between India and the rest of Asia. The Rama legend—rather legends—are prevalent in almost all countries of Asia, namely China, Tibet, East Turkestan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaya...

...Leonard T. Wolcott Abstract Hanumān, the ancient monkey-divinity of India: for many, he represents the force of life in man's struggle to exist. He is most famous for his devotion to the god-king Rāma, and for his exploits as leader of the monkey army that helped save Rāma's princess from the demon...

..., queen, heir-apparent, or regent. Two days prior, he had shared to Facebook a biography of the new king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, or Rama X, who became king following the death of his father, Bhumipol Adulyadej, Rama IX, on October 13, 2016. The BBC Thai biography was candid and highlighted Vajiralongkorn's...

...Rama Sundari Mantena Banerjee's examination of discourses of monarchical, monotheistic, and popular sovereignty in Indian nationalist thought (primarily Bengali) in The Mortal God offers fresh new perspectives and insights into the intellectual history of Indian nationalism, especially...

...Rama Sundari Mantena Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India . Edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2003 . xxiii, 330 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004...

...A. Thomas Kirsch Abstract Complexity has characterized the Thai religious system since at least 1292, when the well-known inscription of Rama Kamhaeng was composed. This inscription not only celebrates the devotion of his people of Sukhothai to Theravada Buddhism but also notes a special...