Book review

Power, Poverty and Poison: Disaster and Response in an Indian City by James Manor (New Delhi, Newbury Park, London: Sage Publications, 1993, pp.197, Rs.220). The Politics of India Since Independence by Paul Brass (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.xx + 403, £40hb, £14.95 pb). The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860–1940 by David Omissi (Macmillan, 1994, £45). Ideologies of the Raj by Thomas R. Metcalf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.276, £24.95). The Changing Face of Sri Lankan Politics; The Background to the 1994 General Election by Laksiri Jayasuriya (Discussion Paper No.1, Centre for Development Studies, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1994, pp.68, pb). The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.xxiii + 310, £12.95). Estranged Democracies: India and the United States, 1941–1991 by Dennis Kux (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994, pp.xiv + 514, £35). The India‐Canada Relationship: Exploring the Political, Economic and Cultural Dimensions edited by J.S. Grewal and Hugh Johnston (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994, pp.462, £35). South Africa: From Apartheid to National Unity, 1981–1994 edited by William Gutteridge (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1995, pp.ix + 245, £37.50). The Search for Africa: A History in the Making by Basil Davidson (London: James Currey, 1994, pp.373, £25 hb, £11.95 pb). Adventures in Education by Bernard de Bunsen (Kendal: Titus Wilson, 1995, pp.153, £10.40. Copies obtainable from J. R. Carter, Battle Hill, Austwick, Lancaster, LA2 8BW). Can Responsible Government Survive in Australia? by David Hamer (Canberra: University of Canberra, 1994, pp.viii + 215, $24.95). Rain Dancing: Sanctions in Canadian and Australian Foreign Policy by Kim Richard Nossal (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp.323, £39 hb, £14.26 pb). The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya. Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere by Anthony Milner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.vii + 328, £35). After Colonialism. Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements edited by Gyan Prakash (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp.viii + 352. £39 hb, £13.95 pb).