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A treasure for scholars of Rajput history. Richard Saran and Norman Ziegler, whose contributions to Rajput studies are well known to specialists in the field, have given us a work of deep and exacting scholarship. It is the culmination of decades devoted to the study of Middle Marwari chronicles from Rajasthan.

Gathers the harvest of recent doctoral dissertations on South Asia, principally from North America and Western Europe, but exclusive of theses from universities in South Asia itself. These studies are eloquent testimony to the expansion of South Asian studies in the West over the last decade.

This essay originated in an attempt to bring together the study of law and Thai history in a description of the transformation of Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen from a legal point of view.

The major research interest in the village under study in this volume was originally in the area of socialization practices, social change and variables related to fertility behaviour. However, the study expanded to include the diffusion of news events and villagers' reactions to them.

This volume is a manifestation of the continuing interest of scholars at the University of Michigan in Philippine studies. Written by a generation of post-colonial scholars, it unravels some of the historical problems of the colonial era.

The twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three translated volumes.