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...Abigail McGowan Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India . By Howard Spodek . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2011 . xiii, 330 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Ahmedabad: From Royal City to Megacity . By Achyut Yagnik and Suchitra Sheth . New Delhi : Penguin Books , 2011...

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...Richard G. Wang Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China . By Craig Clunas . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . 248 pp. $57.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 With his Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming...

...Cecil Hobbs Some Observations on Libraries, Manuscripts and Books of Burma from the 3rd Century A.D. to 1886 (with. Special Reference to the Royal Library of the Last Kings of Burma) . By E. P. Quigly . London : Arthur Probsthain , 1956 . 34 . Pen Sketches, Map, Notes, Addenda, Glossary...

... not) is shown as a persistent theme in this lineage, and it is a reason why the genealogical accounts of ancestors are of such interest to the Pāṇḍavas and their descendants. Part I, “A Royal Patrilineal Model,” includes a chapter on “ Śrāddha in the Mahābhārata ,” in which Brodbeck introduces what he...

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...Chalmers Johnson Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, Strategic Illusions, 1936–1941 . By Arthur J. Marder . Oxford : Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press , 1981 . xxxii, 533 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Index. $49.50. Copyright © The Association...

...Alton L. Becker Taman Indera: A Royal Pleasure Ground: Malay Decorative Arts and Pastimes . By Mubin Sheppard . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1972 . xvii, 207 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $23.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974...

...A. Bharati The Royal Song of Sarāha: A Study in the History of Buddhist Thought . Translated and Annotated by Herbert V. Guenther . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1969 . vii , pp. Index. $7.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 216 JOURNAL...

...Robert S. Wicks Earth to Heaven: The Royal Animal-shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires . By Donald and Joan Gear . Twinstar : 1992 . xvii, 299 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 626 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES for choosing the three villages...

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...P.H.C. Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . Volume XXXII . Seoul, Korea , 1951 . 97 p. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 425 Elementary Chinese with Romanization and Exercises on Speaking and Writing...

...Benedict R. Anderson Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity . By J. Joseph Errington . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press , 1985 . (Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series...

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...Mary Beth Heston The Vijayanagara Courtly Style: Incorporation and Synthesis in the Royal Architecture of Southern India, 15th–17th Centuries . By George Michell . New Delhi : Manohar Publications , 1992 . viii, 198 pp. $34.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Jong Woo Park A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea . By Eugene Y. Park . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2018 . xiv, 270 pp. ISBN: 9781503602083 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Throughout...

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...Royal W. Weiler BOOK REVIEWS 147 which the report is based were carried out over an approximately two-month period in the winter of 1958. In this term of concentrated effort, a stratigraphic column for the period between the sixth century B.C. until Moslem times was worked out based on a series...