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ARTICLES JAN BREMAN: Silencing the Voice of Agricultural Labourers in South Gujarat ANTHONY Goop: The Car and the Palanquin: Rival Accounts of the 1895 Riot in Kalugumalai, South India JAMES Brow: Utopia’s New-Found Space: Village Community in the Early Writings of Ananda Coomaraswamy MICHAEL KaTTEN: Manufacturing Village Identity and Its Village: The View from Nineteenth-Century Andhra PauL E. Baak: About Enslaved Ex-slaves, Uncaptured Contract Coolies and Unfreed Freedmen RANDOLF G. S. Cooper: Beyond Beasts and Bullion: Economic Considerations in Bombay’s Military Logistics, 1803 Joya CHATTERJI: The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal’s Border Landscape, 1947-52 M. ATHAR ALI: Muslims’ Perception of Judaism and Christianity in Medieval India J. R. FREEMAN: Gods, Groves and the Culture of Nature in Kerala Davip Mosse: Colonial and Contemporary Ideologies of ‘Community Management’: The Case of Tank Irrigation Development in South India SUMATHI RAMASWAMY: Sanskrit for the Nation IAN Brown: Tax Remission and Tax Burden in Rural Lower Burma during the Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s GERRIT KNAAaP: Shipping and Trade in Java, c. 1775: A Quantitative Analysis NinGJ . CHANG: Tension Within the Church: British Missionaries in Wuhan, 1913-28 XIAOYUAN Liu: China and the Issue of Postwar Indochina in the Second World War A. J. FincH: The Japanese Police’s Claim to Efficiency: A Critical View NIGEL BRAILEYT:he Scramble for Concessions in 1880s Siam DUNCAN McCarGo: The International Media and the Domestic Political Coverage of the Thai Press J. Ricc, A. ALLoTT, R. HARRISON, U. KRATZ: Understanding Languages of Modernization: A South Asian View Timotnuy C. Lim: The Origins of Societal Power in South Korea: Understanding the Physical and Human Legacies of Japanese Colonialism ALAN TREVITHICK: British Archaeologists, Hindu Abbots, and Burmese Buddhists: The Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, 1811-1877 ANDREWJ . Major: State and Criminal Tribes in Colonial Punjab: Surveillance, Control and Reclamation of the ‘Dangerous Classes’ ARILD ENGELSEN RUUD: The Indian Hierarchy: Culture, Ideology and Consciousness in Bengali Village Politics SuMA S. ATHREYE: Relative Underdevelopment as a Barrier to Technological Efficiency: A Comparative Study of Ministeel Plants in India and the UK J. CHARLES SCHENCKINGT:he Imperial! Japanese Navy and the Constructed Consciousness of a South Seas Destiny, 1872-1921 JOHN NELSson: Shifting Paradigms of Religion and the State: Implications of the 1997 Supreme Court Decision for Social, Religious and Political Change RANDALL DODGEN: Hydraulic Religion: ‘Great King’ Cults in the Ming and Qing KAM LOuIE: Sexuality, Masculinity and Politics in Chinese Culture: The Case of the ‘Sanguo’ Hero Guan Yu HARBANS MUKHIA: The Celebration of Failure as Dissent in Urdu Ghazal CLAUDE MARKOVITs: Indian Merchant Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey VERONIQUE BENEI: Reappropriating Colonial Documents in Kolhapur (Maharashtra): Variations on a Nationalist Theme ANNAPURNA SHAW: The Planning and Development of New Bombay FiLipPO OSELLA and CAROLINE OSELLA: From Transience to Immanence: Consumption, Life-Cycle and Social Mobility in Kerala, South India REVIEWS Smallarms of the East India Company 1600-1856. Vol. I: Procurement and Design; Vol. II: Catalogue of Patterns. By D. F. Harding (Randolf Cooper) 759 Population, Gender, and Politics: Demographic Changes in Rural North India. By Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery (Subho Basu) 763 The Goondas: Towards a Reconstuction of the Calcutta Underworld. By Suranjan Das and Jayanta K. Ray (Crispin Bates) second edition_ L This second edition has been fully TH FE Mi IT revised and expanded, and includes previously unpublished data as well as coverage of recent developments F N CYC LO p F —D |A in the economy. The definitional entries concisely explain major O F Li H FE economic concepts and include translations of Japanese economic terms and cross references to the J APA N ES - longer topical essays. The 180 topical essays cover banks, financial EC O N O M Y systems, major industries, corporate groups, management practices, labor Robert C. Hsu unions, international trade and investments, government economic To order call 800-356- 0343 (US & Canada) policies, and more. or (617) 625-8569. : : , ; tha tigher outside A valuable reference for anyone interested in Japan's U.S. and subject to economy. . . provides essential background information as change without notice ’ to how Japan's bureaucracy functions, how its trade The relationshins have developed, and why some policies are as firmly entrenched as they are.” MIT — Far Eastern Economic Review (praise for the 1st edition) 550 pp. $60 Press http://mitpress.mit.edu