...Michio Nagai Abstract Spencer has been called the most widely read and possibly the most in fluential Western social and political thinker in Japan during the 1880's. Between 1877 and 1900, at least thirty-two translations and one critical study of Spencer's works were published, besides many...

... of worship. By providing employment to artisans, peasants and shepherds and by lending money to agriculturalists in their vicinities, South Indian temples also redistributed the property of the wealthy to other segments of society (Spencer 1968:292). The widespread approval accorded to patrons of temples...

...George W. Spencer Abstract Although political and cultural developments in India have strongly influenced those in Ceylon for many centuries, the effects were often contradictory and ironic. The land that sent the Buddhist religion to Ceylon also sent invaders to plunder its Buddhist monuments...

...Daniel L. Spencer BOOK REVIEWS 645 itself a rather debatable term, is exceedingly journalistic in style the book, unlike most breezy complex, and the result of migrations and in- travel accounts, offers a summary but substantial fluences which must have emanated from various account of India's...

...Michael Spencer Abstract Hinduism permeates A Passage To India . While recognizing this fact, none of the critics have so far displayed an understanding of Hinduism which is adequate for the analysis of this novel. The type of Hinduism which has been popularized in the West, that of Vedantic...

...Dorothy M. Spencer The Political System of the Jats of Northern India . By M. C. Pradhan . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1966 . xvi, 275 pp. Map, Illustrations, Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $6.65. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 664...

...J. E. Spencer China, the Land and Its People . By R. R. C. de Crespigny . New York : St. Martin's Press and Sydney, Australia : Thomas Nelson , 1971 . xiv, 235 pp. Plates, Maps, Figures, Bibliographical Guide, Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975...

...George W. Spencer 1204 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the interests of the state, eventually weakening its revenue base and making it vulnerable to external aggression. One of the great merits of the book is its clear and perceptive presentation of historiographical debates and evidentiary problems...

...Jonathan Spencer Gamburd's book has two great strengths. One is her skilful embedding of her ethnographic material in a broader nexus of poverty, politics, and local idioms of gender and especially masculinity. Alcohol, she argues, has to be part of a more holistic understanding of local society...

...J. E. Spencer The Changing Map of Asia, A Political Geography . Edited by W. Gordon East , O. H. K. Spate , And Charles A. Fisher . London : Methuen & Co. , 5th edition, 1971 . xvi, 678 pp. Maps, Tables, Biblioography, Index. $18.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Robert F. Spencer Economic Growth and Structure in the Republic of Korea . By Paul W. Kuznets . New Haven : Yale University Economic Growth Center, Yale University Press , 1977 . xv, 238 pp. Notes, Tables, Chart, Bibliography, Index. $16.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...George W. Spencer Trade and Statecraft in the Age of the Cōḻas . By Kenneth R. Hall . New Delhi : Abhinav Publications , 1980 . 212 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Inde. $16 (cloth). Culture and Political-Military Behavior: The Hindus in Pre-Modern India . By Joel Larus . Columbia...

...George W. Spencer Lord Northbrook's Indian Administration: 1872–1876 . By Edward C. Moulton . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1968 . vi, 313 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 957 die period...

...Dorothy M. Spencer Bound to Exile: The Victorians in India . By Michael Edwardes . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1969 . xii, 283 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Index. $7.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 198 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Bound to Exile...

...Daniel L. Spencer 504 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES re-allocation of agricultural resources, a major extension of the cultivated acreage and of double-cropping, a substantial increase in the supply of fish and eggs, and a sixty to ninety per cent increase in productivity per hectare. But ". . . on any...

...Daniel Spencer The Development of the Indian Economy . By W. B. Reddaway . Homewood, Illinois : Richard D. Irwin , 1962 . 216 . n.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 491 reasons why people behave the way they do than with a description of what...

...Dorothy M. Spencer BOOK REVIEWS 455 South India will be written time and again as new interpretations are written. But this detracts not at all from Sastri's pioneering achievement. BARBARA J. HARRISON Washington, D. C. The Religion of a n I n d i a n Tribe. By VERRIER ELWIN. London: Oxford...

...Robert F. Spencer BOOK REVIEWS 441 to write Indonesian history. As part of the between-war movement to reevaluate Indonesian life that emerged from the writings of C. van Vollenhoven, van Leur was well prepared to challenge the then current historical approaches: the Indiacentered view of early...

...J. E. Spencer Atlas of the Philippines . Edited by Robert S. Hendry . Manila : Phil-Asian Publishers . 1959 . 228 . $75.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 245 tendons to the people without relying on platforms or programs. She makes only...

...Robert M. Spencer Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 Bnmau-yn 1921–1958 Onuudyn uls Ardyn Aj Ahuy Soyolyn Hogjilt; Statistikiyn Emhetgel . [Development of the National Economy and Culture of the Mongolian People's Republic from 1921 to 1958; a Statistical...