The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from July 1999

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from July 1999

DISCORD IN THE SIKH PANTH.(scholarly disagreements over religion)
July 1, 1999... Attacks have been made against the author by some Sikhs, convinced that his research is designed to undermine the Sikh faith. Such attacks, however, have not been nearly as vigorous as those directed against three Sikh scholars, regarded by...

BREAKING THE ORKHON TRADITION: KIRGHIZ ADHERENCE TO THE YENISEI REGION AFTER A.D. 840.
July 1, 1999... Many scholars of Inner Asian history have long believed that after the destruction of the Uighur empire in A.D. 840, the victorious Kirghiz followed Inner Asian political tradition and established an empire that included the Mongolian plateau,...

THE SO-CALLED "THIRD"-PERSON POSSESSIVE PRONOUN jue [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII TEXT] IN CLASSICAL CHINESE.
July 1, 1999... Jue [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII TEXT] in Classical Chinese is commonly understood as an anaphoric, possessive pronoun in the third person. An examination of bronze inscriptions from the Eastern Zhou to the Zhanguo period (ca....

MANICHAICA ARAMAICA? ADAM AND THE MAGICAL DELIVERANCE OF SETH.
July 1, 1999... Ibn al-Nadim's tenth-century Fihrist, long recognized as the purveyor of much valuable Manichaean lore, includes a Manichaean exposition of Genesis 2-4 that exhibits numerous affinities with both Jewish aggadic and gnostic exegetical...

AN EGYPTIAN JUDGE IN A PERIOD OF CHANGE: QADI AHMAD MUHAMMAD SHAKIR, 1892-1958.
July 1, 1999... This essay seeks to analyze the dynamics of modern legal change as reflected in the juridical thought of the Egyptian Salafi faqih and qadi, Ahmad Muhammad Shakir. The study is based on a collection of twenty-four of Shakir's shari[CHARACTERS...

THE DISSERTATION AS HANDBOOK: A NEW GUIDE TO THE SHUO-WEN CHIEH-TZU.
July 1, 1999... Designed as a vade mecum for Sinological neophytes whose studies require them to extract lexical, epigraphical, or phonological materials from the Shuo-wen chieh-tzu of A.D. 100, Marc Winter's monograph attempts a general introduction to the...

BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS.
July 1, 1999... Remembering Paul Pelliot, 1878-1945 I have recently visited the studies of two Sinologists, one of whom was in his mid-thirties, the other in his mid-forties. Both had on display pictures of Paul Pelliot, who died more than half a century...

Te[CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]umman in the Neo-Assyrian Correspondence.
July 1, 1999... Analysis of eight Neo-Babylonian letters from the Nineveh corpus offers additional details of the career of the Neo-Elamite king Te[CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]umman (664-653 B.C.) before and during his reign. This material complements...

P. V. Kane's Homeric Nod.
July 1, 1999... P. V. Kane cites a line from the Santiparva of the Mahabharata while examining the question whether the former "untouchables" were comprised, within the sudra varna This note questions his use of the line and demonstrates how it radically...

Postscript on Vedic jangahe.
July 1, 1999... In an earlier volume of this journal, one of the present authors (Lubotsky 1997, 562f.) argued that Vedic jangahe is an intensive of the root gandh- 'to smell, be fragrant'. This form is attested only three times: at RV 1.126.6, AVS 5.19.4 (=...

An Indo-European Locution on Early Indian Coin Issues.
July 1, 1999... In an article in Scottish Gaelic Studies 14 (1986): 138-41 I have studied the outcome in the Gaelic term morair, applied to the Great Steward of the king, of the inherited Indo-European syntagma for *GREAT + RULER. In an earlier note (Etudes...

Henry Corbin, 1903-1978: Between Philosophy and Orientalism.
July 1, 1999... Henry Corbin was a French engage "Orientalist" inspired by German philosophical phenomenology and existential theology. His scholarly work on Islamic philosophy and Iranian culture implies a fundamental critique of "Orientalism," which reflects...

Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Encyclopedia of indo-European Culture. Edited by J. P. MALLORY and D. Q. ADAMS. London and Chicago, FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS, 1997. Pp. xlvi + 829. $125. Redigee par une equipe dont bien des membres ont auparavant fait leurs armes dans...

Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia. By ROLAND J.-L. BRETON. Walnut Creek, Calif.: ALTAMIRA PRESS, 1997. Pp. 231. $65. During the mid-1970s the International Center for Research on Bilingualism, located at Laval...

India and the Hellenistic World.(Review)
July 1, 1999... India and the Hellenistic World. By KLAUS KARTTUNEN. Studia Orientalia, ol. 83. Helsinki: FINNISH ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 1997. Pp. x + 439, map (paper). This study is a sequel to the author's doctoral dissertation, entitled India in Early Greek...

The Isvarapratyabhijnakarika of Utpaladeva with the Author's Vrtti.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Isvarapratyabhijnakarika of Utpaladeva with the Author's Vrtti. Edited and translated by RAFFAELE TORELLA. Serie Orientale Roma, no. 71. Rome: ISTITUTO ITALIANO PER IL. MEDIO ED ESTREMO ORIENTE, 1994. Pp. liv + 274. LIt 10,000 (paper). ...

Buddhist Theory of Perception.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Buddhist Theory of Perception. By C. S. VYAS. New Delhi: NAVRANG, 1991. Pp. ix + 177. $18. The present book has the subtitle: "with special reference to Pramana-varttika of Dharmakirti." In the preface (p. v) and in a section in chapter 2...

Sukrtidatta Pantas Kartaviryodaya: Ein neuzeitliches Sanskrit-Mahakavaya aus Nepal.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Sukrtidatta Pantas Kartaviryodaya: Ein neuzeitliches Sanskrit-Mahakavaya aus Nepal. By JOHANNES SCHNEIDER. Indica et Tibetica, vol. 27. Swisstal Odendorf: INDICA ET TIBETICA VERLAG, 1996. Pp. 430. DM 84. This volume, a revised version of a...

Vividhatirthakalpah: Regards sur le lieu saint Jaina, vol. I: Traduction et commentaire; vol. II: Annexes.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Vividhatirthakalpah: Regards sur le lieu saint Jaina, vol. I: Traduction et commentaire; vol. II: Annexes. By CHRISTINE CHOJNACKI. Publications du Department d'Indologie, vol. 85. Pondichery: INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE PONDICHERY and ECOLE FRANCAISE...

Rule by Records: Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Punjab.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Rule by Records: Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Punjab. By RICHARD SAUMAREZ SMITH. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. 451. Rs 695. In 1985 Richard S. Smith published his path-breaking article,...

Malayalam.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Malayalam. By R. E. ASHER and T. C. KUMARI. Descriptive Grammars. London: ROUTLEDGE, 1997. Pp. xxvi + 491 + two maps. Asher's and Kumari's Malayalam is the twenty-third and latest volume in Routledge's Descriptive Grammars series, and the...

Le Commentaire de Cenavaraiyar sur le Collatikaram du Tolkappiyam: Sur la metalangue grammaticale des maitres commentateurs iamouls medievaux, vol. 1.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Le Commentaire de Cenavaraiyar sur le Collatikaram du Tolkappiyam: Sur la metalangue grammaticale des maitres commentateurs iamouls medievaux, vol. 1. By JEAN-LUC CHEVILLARD. Publications du Department d'Indologie, 84.1. Pondicherry: INSTITUT...

From the Ocean of Painting: India's Popular Paintings, 1589 to the Present.(Review)
July 1, 1999... From the Ocean of Painting: India's Popular Paintings, 1589 to the Present. By BARBARA ROSSI. New York and Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998. Pp. xiv + 295, 101 illustrations. $49.95. Professor Rossi began her collection of the popular...

Die Hymnen der chinesischen Staatsopfer: Literatur und Ritual in der politischen Reprasentation von der Han-Zeit bis zu den Sechs Dynastien.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Die Hymnen der chinesischen Staatsopfer: Literatur und Ritual in der politischen Reprasentation von der Han-Zeit bis zu den Sechs Dynastien. By MARTIN KERN. Sinologica Coloniensia, vol. 19. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1997. Pp. 340. DM 120...

The Shan-fu Liang Kuei and Associated Inscribed Vessels [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII TEXT].(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Shan-fu Liang Kuei and Associated Inscribed Vessels [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII TEXT]. By NOEL BARNARD and CHEUNG KWONG-YUE. Taibei: NANTIAN SHUJU, 1996. Over two decades of cooperative research between Noel Barnard of...

Amour et politique dans la Chine ancienne: Cent poemes de Li Shangyin (812-858).(Review)
July 1, 1999... Amour et politique dans la Chine ancienne: Cent poemes de Li Shangyin (812-858). By YVES HERVOUET, Paris: DE BOCCARD, 1995. Pp. xxix + 282. FF 130 (paper). Yves Hervouet, who has given us over the years many excellent studies of...

The Book of Giants from Qumran: Texts, Translation, and Commentary. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, vol. 63.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Book of Giants from Qumran: Texts, Translation, and Commentary. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, vol. 63. By LOREN T. STUCKENBRUCK. Tubingen: J. C. B. MOHR (PAUL SIEBECK), 1997. Pp. xvi + 289. DM 198. The ancient pseudepigraph...

Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition. By BRIAN B. SCHMIDT. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, vol. 11. Tubingen: J. C. B. MOHR, 1994. Pp. xv + 400. DM 158. The present work is a...

Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation. By BERNARD M. LEVINSON. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 205. $39.95. This book, E comprehensive revision of the author's Brandeis doctoral dissertation under Michael...

Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38) in Ancient Jewish Exegesis: Studies in Literary Form and Hermeneutics.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38) in Ancient Jewish Exegesis: Studies in Literary Form and Hermeneutics. By ESTHER MARIE MENN. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, vol. 51. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1997. Pp. xvi + 412. $143.50. In...

The Dawn of Hebrew Linguistics: The Book of Elegance of the Language of the Hebrews.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Dawn of Hebrew Linguistics: The Book of Elegance of the Language of the Hebrews [by SAADIA GAON]. Two volumes. Edited by ARON DOTAN. Jerusalem: WORLD UNION OF JEWISH STUDIES, 1997. Pp. 668 (paginated consecutively). Professor Aron...

Gramatica Fenicia Elemental.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Gramatica Fenicia Elemental. By JESUS Luis CUNCHILLOS and JOSfi-ANGEL ZAMORA. Banco de Datos Filologicos Semiticos Noroccidentales, vol. 2.1. Madrid: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIEICAS, 1997. Pp. xv + 170, maps, illus. Several...

Les Arameens l'age du fer: Histoire politique et structures sociales.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Les Arameens l'age du fer: Histoire politique et structures sociales. By P.-E. DION. Etudes bibliques, vol. 34. Paris: LIBRAIRIE LECOFFRE, 1997. Pp. 472, illustrations. $54.50. Apres un avant-propos situant son livre a la suite de ceux...

Res Maritimae: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Res Maritimae: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity. Edited by STUART SWINY, ROBERT L. HOHLFELDER, and HELENA WYLDE SWINY. Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Monograph Series, vol. 1; American...

The Ancient Mesopotamian City.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Ancient Mesopotamian City. By MARC VAN DE MIEROOP. Oxford: CLARENDON PRESS, 1997. Pp. xv + 269. $72. Van De Mieroop has provided an excellent and thoughtprovoking general study, one of the first by a Near Eastern historian to tell a...

Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoy im Vorderasiatischen Museum.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoy im Vorderasiatischen Museum. By LIANE JAKOB-ROST. Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmaler der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, neue Folge, vol. 12 (vol. 28). Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 1997. Pp. 17 + 56 lables. DM 50. ...

A Cuneiform Texts from the Ur III Period in the Oriental Institute, vol. 1: Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Sulgi.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Cuneiform Texts from the Ur III Period in the Oriental Institute, vol. 1: Drehem Administrative Documents from the Reign of Sulgi. By MARKUS HILGERT. Oriental Institute Publications, vol. 115. Chicago: THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY...

Babylonian Horoscopes.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Babylonian Horoscopes. By FRANCESCA ROCHBERG. Transactions of the American Philological Society, vol. 88.1. Philadelphia: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1998. Pp. xi + 164, illus. $20. In Babylonian Horoscopes, Francesca Rochberg has...

The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak: Cylinder Seals of Third Millennium Syria.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak: Cylinder Seals of Third Millennium Syria. By DONALD M. MATTHEWS. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archaeologica, vol. 15. Fribourg, Switzerland: UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. xiii + 311, 59 p1. This book...

Tell Sabi Abyad, the Late Neolithic Settlement: Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria. Two volumes.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Tell Sabi Abyad, the Late Neolithic Settlement: Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria. Two volumes. Edited by PETER M. M. G. AKKERMANS. Publications de...

Phonologies of Asia and Africa (Including the Caucasus). Two vols.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Phonologies of Asia and Africa (Including the Caucasus). Two vols. Edited by ALAN S. KAYE; with advice of PETER T. DANIELS. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1997. Pp. 1041 + maps. $119.50. The Phonologies of Asia and Africa is a compilation...

Hausa and the Chadic Language Family: A Bibliography.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Hausa and the Chadic Language Family: A Bibliography. By PAUL NEWMAN. African Linguistic Bibliographies, vol. 6. Koln: RUDIGER KOPPE VERLAG, 1996. Pp. xix + 152. This bibliography, consisting of 1,821 items, is impressive. It represents...

Arabic Grammar in its Formative Age.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Arabic Grammar in its Formative Age: Kitab al-[CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]Ayn and its Attribution to Halil b. Ahmad. By RAFAEL TALMON. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, vol. 25. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1997. Pp. x + 437. ...

Changing Traditions: Al-Mubarrad's Refutation of Sibawayh and the Subsequent Reception of the Kitab.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Changing Traditions: Al-Mubarrad's Refutation of Sibawayh and the Subsequent Reception of the Kitab. By MONIQUE BERNARDS. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, vol. 23. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1997. Pp. 118 + 212 (Arabic). HFI 154, $96.25....

Kitab al-ridda wal-futuh and Kitab al-jamal wa masir A isha wa Ali: A Critical Edition of the Fragments Preserved in the University Library of Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh Saudi Arabia.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Kitab al-ridda wa[CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]l-futuh and Kitab al-jamal wa masir [CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]A[CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] isha wa [CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]Ali: A Critical Edition of...

The Thirsty Sword: Sirat Antar and the Arabic Popular Epic.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Thirsty Sword: Sirat [CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]Antar and the Arabic Popular Epic. By PETER HEATH. Salt Lake City: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS, 1996. Pp. xx + 324. $50. Since the Sixties, popular sira literature has received an...

The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society. Edited by RICHARD C. HOVANNISIAN and GEORGES SABAGH. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 121. This volume comprises a collection of essays presented on the occasion...

Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt. BY WALTER ARMBRUST. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xi + 275. $54.95. Drawing on diverse popular media, this book presents two crucial narratives of twentieth-century Egyptian culture:...

A History of Cathay: A Translation and Linguistic Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Turkic Manuscript.(Review)
July 1, 1999... A History of Cathay: A Translation and Linguistic Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Turkic Manuscript. By ILDIKO BELLERHANN. Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 162. Bloomington: INDIANA UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INNER...

Sites et monuments disparus les tdmoinages de voyageurs.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Sites et monuments disparus les tdmoinages de voyageurs. Edited by RIKA GYSELEN. Res orientales, vol. 8. Bures-sur-Yvette: GROUPE POUR L'dTUDE DE LA CIVILIZATION DU MOYEN-ORIENT, 1996. Pp. 205. This important volume contains twelve studies...

The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning. By HEINZ HALM. London: I. B. TAURIS, in association with the INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES, 1997. Pp. xv + 112. We have here for the first time a comprehensive account of the traditions of...

Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Frontier Nomads of Iran: A Political and Social History of the Shahsevan. By RICHARD TAPPER. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 448. $69.95. This is a rich, ambitious and complicated book that tries to address various...

Mapping Islamic Studies: Genealogy, Continuity, and Change.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Mapping Islamic Studies: Genealogy, Continuity, and Change. Edited by AZIM NANJI. Religion and Reason, vol. 38. Berlin: MOUTON DE GRUYTER, 1997. Pp. xxi + 270. This collection of essays has three main goals: to trace the development of...

Ugaritic Narrative Poetry.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Ugaritic Narrative Poetry. Edited by SIMON B. PARKER. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World Series, vol. 9. Altanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1997. Pp. viii + 265, illus., maps. $34.95. Edited by S. B. Parker, this volume...

Proto-Cuneiform Texts from Diverse Collections.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Proto-Cuneiform Texts from Diverse Collections. By ROBERT K. ENGLUND. Materialien zu den fruhen Schriftzeugnissen des Vorderen Orients, vol. 4. Berlin: GEBR. MANN VERLAG, 1996. Pp. 110, illustrations, 5 plates DM 72. R. K. Englund a...

Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism. By GUY G. STROUMSA. Studies in the History of Religions (Numen book series), vol. 70. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. xii + 183. HFI 110, $71. At first glance Prof....

Ezekiel and the Leaders of Israel.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Ezekiel and the Leaders of Israel. By IAIN M. DUGUID. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, vol. 56. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1994. Pp. xi + 164.$57.25. In this revision of a Cambridge doctoral thesis, Duguid contends that the Book of Ezekiel...

Fada'il Bayt al-Maqdis wa al-Khalil wa fada'il al-Sham.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Fada'il Bayt al-Maqdis wa al-Khalil wa fada'il al-Sham. By ABU AL-MA ALI AL-MUSHARRAF B. AL-MURAJJX B. IBRAHIM AL-MAQOISI, edited with an introduction by OFER LIVNEKAFRI. Shraram, Israel: ALMASHREQ, LTD., 1995. Pp. ix + 419. This treatise...

Armeno-Turcica: Selected Studies.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Armeno-Turcica: Selected Studies. By EDMOND SCHUTZ. Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 164. Bloomington: INDIANA UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INNER ASIAN STUDIES, 1998. Pp. xii + 420. $45.00. Most of the sixteen papers collected in this...

Tibetan Studies.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Tibetan Studies. By JAN WILLEM DE JONG. Indica et Tibetica, vol. 25. Swisstal-Odendorf: INDICA ET TIBETICA VERLAG, 1994. Pp. ix + 254. The book consists of de Jong's previously published "articles"--of the thirty-two entries most are in the...

Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists and the Art of Self.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists and the Art of Self. By ANN CAROLYN KLEIN. Boston: BEACON PRESS, 1995. Pp. 336, index, preface, notes, bibliography, and glossary. $25. Numerous books have been written about Buddhism, its...

Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia. Edited by DAVID ARNOLD and RAMACHANDRA GUHA. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1995; paperback edition, 1996. Pp. xi + 376. Rs 200. Environmental history is a...

Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny. By STANLEY WOLPERT. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xii + 546. $35. To his biographies of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Jinnah of Pakistan, 1984) and of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan, 1993)...

Political History of Ancient India.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty. By HEMCHANDRA RAYCHAUDHURI. New edition [eighth] with a commentary by B. N. MUKHERJEE. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xxxv +...

History Writing of Early India: New Discoveries and Approaches.(Review)
July 1, 1999... History Writing of Early India: New Discoveries and Approaches. By SHANKAR GOYAL. Jodhpur: KUSUMANJALI PRAKASHAN, 1996. Pp. xiii + 168. Rs 280. The Image of Classical India: Its Changing Colours and Contours. By SHANKAR GOYAL. Jodhpur:...

Kalidasa. The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Kalidasa. The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems. By CHANDRA RAJAN. New Delhi: PENGUIN BOOKS (INDIA), 1990. Pp. 343. Rs 65, $8.95. This volume, reprinted one year after its original edition in 1989, contains the translation...

Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the French institute of Pondicherry, vol. 3: Mss. 276-3 75.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the French institute of Pondicherry, vol. 3: Mss. 276-3 75. By V. VARADAcHARI. Publications de 1'Institut francais d'Indologie, vol. 70.3. Pondicherry: INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE PONDICHERY, 1990. Pp. xv + 483....

Erste heidelberger Sudasiengesprache.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Erste heidelberger Sudasiengesprache. Edited by DIETMAR ROTHERMUND. Beitrage zur Sudasienforschung, SudasienInstitut, Universitat Heidelberg, vol. 135. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1990. Pp. ix + 124. DM 38. Pakistan: Zweite...

Sir Aurel Stein, Archaeological Explorer.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Sir Aurel Stein, Archaeological Explorer. By JEANETTE MIRSKY. Chicago: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 1998. Pp. xiii + 585, maps, illus. This paperbound reprint of Jeanette Mirsky's 1977 biography of one of the great Orientalists is very...

The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia, 2 volumes.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia, 2 volumes. Edited by VICTOR H. MAIR. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph, no. 26. Washington, D.C.: THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF MAN; Philadelphia: UNIVERSITY OF...

Chinese Literature in Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Chinese Literature in Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. By DONALD HOLZMAN. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Brookfield, Vt.: ASHOATE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1998. $98.95. Immortals, Festivals, and Poetry in Medieval China: Studies...

Hommage a Kwong Hing Foon; Erudes d'histoire culturelle de la Chine.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Hommage a Kwong Hing Foon; Erudes d'histoire culturelle de la Chine. Edited by JEAN-PIERRE DIENY. Bibliotheque de l'Institut des hautes etudes chinoises, vol. 30. Paris: INSTITUT DES HAUTES ETUDES CHINOISES, COLLEGE DE FRANCE, 1995. Pp. viii +...