...Kenneth W. Jones Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 The Government of India and Reform: Policies towards Politics and the Constitution, 1916–1921 . By P. G. Robb . London : Oxford University Press (School of Oriental and African Studies, London Oriental...

...Matthew Sayers A History of India . By Peter Robb . New York : Palgrave , 2002 . 357 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 680 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES attaining calm abiding {samatha) based on mindfulness of particular types...

...Donn V. Hart Filipinos: Pre-War Philippines Essays . By Walter Robb . Victoneta Park, Rizal [Province], Philippines : Araneta University Press , 1963 . xxiii, 272 . $6.00. (Available from The Cellar Book Shop, 18090 Wyoming, Detroit 21, Michigan.) Copyright © Association for Asian...

... was equal to any for intellectual brilliance and self-sacrificing public time. He steadfastly defended Home Rule for service. The lack of any greater depth suggests 782 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that he had no access to the extensive recent Starting with this perspective, Robb has pro- publications, by both...

... Essays. By WALTER ROBB. Victoneta Park, Rizal [Province], Philippines: Araneta Univer- sity Press, 1963. xxiii, 272. $6.00. (Available from The Cellar Book Shop, 18090 Wyoming, Detroit 21, Michigan.) Walter Robb and his wife, Dolly, represent a precious breed of vanishing "early" Americans...

... this additional "shadow" and neglected inter-island shipping altogether. Nevertheless, his volume is more than adequately substantial for course-work, scholarly speculation, and even corrective legislation. LEONARD CASPER Boston College Filipinos: Pre-War Philippines Essays. By WALTER ROBB. Victoneta Park, Rizal...

... with a reinterpretation of Lord Chelmsford's personality, attitude, and role in this process of policy-formulation. Both the central thesis of this book and its vision of Lord Chelmsford may prove controversial to many historians. But, however one may react (and in many cases it will be an emotional reaction), Robb's...

...Frank F. Conlon Rule, Protest, Identity: Aspects of Modern South Asia . Edited by Peter Robb and David Taylor . London : Curzon Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Collected Papers on South Asia No. I), 1978...

..., and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia . By Wen-Qing Ngoei . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2019 . x, 257 pp. ISBN: 9781501716409 (cloth). Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War . By Thomas K. Robb and David James...

... to the Arya Samaj. The reader undoubtedly will find material to his or her liking, but at the cost of having to skim through a lot of trivia. RICHARD SARAN The University ofMichigan Rule, Protest, Identity: Aspects of Modern South Asia. Edited by PETER ROBB and DAVID TAYLOR. London: Curzon Press; Atlantic...

...Francesca Orsini Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India . By Megan Eaton Robb . New York : Oxford University Press , 2021 . 246 pp. ISBN: 9780190089375 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Print...

... of Buddhism as presented by the Kagyu school. DAN COZORT Dickinson College A History of India. By PETER R O B B . New York: Palgrave, 2002. 357 pp. $35.00 (cloth). In this volume, Peter Robb crafts a very detailed, well-integrated understanding of the development of modern India. Robb states that his goal...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 682 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES good comprehensive study of India, nor did Robb intend it to be so; it is, however, an excellent introduction to modern Indian history. This book is a very good examination of the development of society, economics, and politics...

..., and, most recently, Megan Eaton Robb have examined the emergence, proliferation, and influence of Urdu print in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lenses of, among other things, women's magazines, satirical cartoons, publishers, songbooks and popular stories, dictionaries, and newspapers. 1...

... between colonial modernity (Arnold 2005 ; Ludden 1999 ; Robb 1981 , 1988 , 2007 ) and modernization (Fischer-Tiné 2018 ; Gidwani 2008 ; Gupta 1998 ). In South Asianist readings, the two are commonly invoked for distinct purposes—the former in the service of critiquing colonial civilizational...

... evokes. A major reason for that richness, however, may also mean that this book is less frequently referred to as an authoritative academic account of government policymaking than, say, Peter Robb's on the same period, or Anthony Low's Journal of Asian Studies article on the Government of India during...

... for marriages and funerals is a custom so deeply rooted in the Country that it is useless to contemplate the possibility of its abandonment at an early date” (11). In his assessment of cooperatives as a colonial project, and of their particular manifestation in Bihar, Peter Robb ( 1988 ) criticizes...

... including Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf s A Concise History of India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Peter Robb's A History of India (New York: Palgrave, 2002), and David Ludden's India and South Asia: A Short History (Oxford: Oneworld, 2002). MICHAEL H. FISHER Oberlin College ...

... images, Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer's explanation of the place of bronzes in Indonesian culture, Nandana Chutiwongs's view of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara's representation in Indonesia, A. de Vries Robbe's reading of the occurrence of khakkhara in Indonesia, and J. A. Schoterman's insight...