Book reviews

LONG‐STANDING TIES Canada and South Asia: Political and Strategic Relations, Arthur C. Rubinoff (editor), The Centre for South Asian Studies, The Universitty of Toronto, Toronto, 1993, pages 150. SON'S TRIBUTE Rajagopalachari: A Biography, C. R. Narasimhan, Sangam Books Ltd, London, 1993, pages xiii + 263, £19.95. TOWARDS EUROPEAN UNION European Political Co‐operation, Simon J. Nuttall, Clarendon Press, Oxford, pages 342, £35.00. CONTENTIOUS REGION The Crackdown in Kashmir: Torture of Detainees and Assaults on the Medical Community. An Asia Watch Report, Patricia Gossman and Vincent Iacopino, Human Rights Watch, New York, 1993, US $7.00, pages 41. A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE? Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong and Macau, Elfed Vaughan Roberts, Sum Ngai Ling and Peter Bradshaw, The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ and London, 1992, pages 355, £49.50. Hong Kong, C. P. Lo, Belhaven Press, London, 1992. DECLINE AND FALL The Fall of Imperial Britain in South‐East Asia, Nicholas Tarling, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1993, pages ix + 229, endpaper map, £20.00 hb. MODEL AND YARDSTICK Ghana: Part I, 1941–1952; Part II, 1952–1957, Richard Rathbone (editor), HMSO for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 1992, 2 vols, £60.00 each.