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Autor: Masica, Colin P., Flora, Resis, Ambirajan, S., Kopf, David, Mabbett, I.W., Colley, David, Orr, Kenneth, Barz, R.K., Bailey, Greg, Lenneberg, Cornelia, Aveling, Harry, Bell, Sharon, Bradley, D., Mayer, P.B., Martell, W.H.T.
Zdroj: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; November 1983, Vol. 6 Issue: 2 p78-105, 28p
Abstrakt: Alston A.J. (trans), The Devotional Poems of Mirabai (Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1980) viii, 144 pp., PB, Rs 30.Auboyer, Jeannine, et. al., Oriental Art, a Handbook of Styles and Forms (Elizabeth and Richard Bartlett, trans.). London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1979, 608 pp., A$58.Bhambhri, C.P. World Bank and India, New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House Private Ltd. 1980, Rs 60.Chandra, B., Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India (New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1979) x, 395 pp., Rs 100.Dallapiccola Anna Libera, ed., The Stupa -- Its Religious, Historical and Architectural Significance. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1980. Pp. xi + 360., Figures, plates, index. No price given.Ghurye G.S., THE LEGACY OF THE RAMAYANA, Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1979, vii, 280 pp., Rs Indian 80.Grant Bruce, Gods and Politicions, Melbourne, Alan Lane, 1982, pp. x plus 198, index: No price given.Juergensmeyer M. and Barrier N.G. (eds), Sikh Studies -- Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Tradition (Barkeley Religious Studies Series, vol 1, Graduate Theological Union, 1979) ii, 230 pp. Supplied through Lancaster-Miller Publishers, 3165 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703. US$16.Kachru Braj B., Kashmiri Literature, fascicle 4 of volume VIII of A History of Indian Literature (ed. J. Gonda), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1981; 114 pages, bibliography and index. Paperback. No price given.Kulke H., Jagannatha-Kult and Gajapati-Königtum. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Religiöser Legitimation Hinduistischer Herrscher, Schriftenreihe des Sudasien-Instituts der Universitat Heidelberg, 23, FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, Wiesbaden, 1979, pp. xii, 266.de Jong J.W., Buddhist Studies, ed. G. Schopen, Asian Humanities Press, Berkeley, 1979, pp. 717, US$35.Madan, G.R., Western Sociologists on Indian Society -- Marx, Spencer (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979) x, 399 pp. 9.95McGregor, R.S. A New Voice for New Times, the development of modern Hindi literature. Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra: 1981. Distributed by the Australian National University Press. 17 pp. Paperback. A$2.Omvedt Gail, We Will Smash This Prison! : Indian Women in a Struggle. London, Zed Press, 1980, pp. 189. No Price Given.Ramanujan A.K. (trans.), Hymns for the Drowning -- Poems for Visnu by Nammalvar (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1981) xviii, 177 pp. US$24.50.Roberts Michael, Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982. Pp. xxix + 382, I.S.B.N. 0-521-23210-4Shapiro Michael C. & Schiffman Harold F., Language and Society in South Asia, Delhi, Varanasi, Patna: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981. pp. xi, 294. Rs 130.Srinivasan Doris, Concept of Cow in the Rigveda, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1979. Pp. xi, 162. Rs Indian 35.Taddei M., ed. SOUTH ASIA ARCHAEOLOGY 1977, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Seminario Di Studi Asiatici, Series Minor VI, Naples 1979, 2 Vols., pp. XIV, 938, Lire 42,000.Studies in Socio-Cultural Change in Rural Villages in Tiruchirapalli District, Tamilnadu, India (Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1980-1982), Nos. 1-5, n.p. Studies on Agrarian Societies in South Asia, (Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1980), No. 5, n.p. (Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Gaikokugo, Daigaku, 4 Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan)Wasti Syed Razi, Biographical Dictionary of South Asia, [Lahore, Publishers United Limited, 1980], 511 pp., Rs. 130. US$15.
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