Book reviews

From Chaos to Order. The Politics of Constitution‐Making in Uganda edited by Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (Kampala: Fountain Publishers and London: James Currey. Pp.xv + 194. £9.95 pb). Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Non‐Governmental Organizations: By Claude E. Welch, Jr (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, pp.xiii + 356, £37.95). Crossing Boundaries: Mine Migrancy in a Democratic South Africa edited by Jonathan Crush and Wilmot James (Cape Town: Institute for Democracy in South Africa and International Development Research Centre, 1995, pp.xvii + 233). Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa by Stephen L. Weigert (London and New York: Macmillan Press and St Martin's Press, pp.ix +151. £40 hb). The Emergence of African History at British Universities edited by A.H.M. Kirk‐Greene (Oxford: World View Publications, 1995, pp.179, £39.95 hb, £14.95 pb). Communalism in India: A Historical and Empirical Study by Asghar Ali Engineer (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, Pvt. Ltd., 1995, pp.319, £24.95). A People of Migrants. Ethnicity, State and Religion in Karachi by Oskar Verkaaik (Amsterdam: VU University Press for Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam, 1994, pp.89). Communities and Electorates. A Comparative Discussion of Communalism in Colonial India by Dick Kooiman (Amsterdam: VU University Press for Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam, 1995, pp.88). Exploring Confrontation. Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture and History by Michael Roberts (Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994, pp.xxv + 377, £42 hb, £19 pb). India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute by Robert G. Wirsing (London: Macmillan Press, 1994, pp.xii + 331, £29.50 hb). The Peace Keepers of Kashmir: The UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan by Pauline Dawson (London: C. Hurst and Co, 1994, pp.xxii + 337, £35). British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence, 1930–1957 by Simon C. Smith (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, pp.x + 234, plates, 1995, £16.99 hb). Ethnic Conflict and Development: The Case of Guyana, by Ralph R. Premdas (Aldershot: Avebury, 1995, pp.205, £45). Alternatives to Independence: Explorations in Post‐Colonial Relations, by Helen M Hintjens (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1995, pp.235). World Bibliographical Series. Vol. 187: Cayman Islands by Paul G. Boultbee (compiler) (Santa Barbara, Oxford; ABC Clio, 1996 pp.150, £30). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, ed. P.J. Marshall (Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.400, £24.95). Federalism: The Multiethnic Challenge edited by Graham Smith (London and New York: Longman, 1995, pp.314, £16.99 pb).