Book reviews

Anatomy of a Confrontation: Ayodhya and the Rise of Communal Politics in India edited by Sarvepalli Gopal (London/Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1994, pp.240, £29.95 hb, £9.95 pb). Marxist Theory and Nationalist Politics: The Case of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks, Calif. & London: Sage Publications, 1995, pp.260, £30 hb). Political Theories and Social Reconstruction: A Critical Survey of the Literature on India by Thomas Pantham (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks, Calif./London: Sage Publications, 1995, pp.232, £30 hb). Crisis and Change in Contemporary India edited by Upendra Baxi and Bhikhu Parekh (New Delhi: Sage, 1995, pp.448, £30). What's Happening to India? Punjab, Ethnic Conflict and the Test for Federalism, Second Edition, by Robin Jeffrey (London: The Macmillan Press, 1994, pp.1 + 252, £14.99). Lai Bahadar Shastri: India's Prime Minister 1964–66: A Life of Truth in Politics by C.P. Srivastava (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp.x + 448, £19.50). Bengal Divided. Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932–1947 by Joya Chatterji (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.xviii + 303, £40). Hindu Nationalists in India. The Rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party by Yogendra K. Malik and V.B. Singh (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, pp.x + 262, $39.95). Communications and Power: Propaganda and the Press in the Indian Nationalist Struggle, 1920–1947 by Milton Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.338 + xiii. £40 hb; £12.95 pb). World Bibliographical Series, Vol.26: India: Revised Edition by Ian D. Derbyshire (compiler) (Oxford: ABC Clio, 1995, pp.356 + xxx, £58.50). Migration: The Asian Experience edited by Judith M. Brown and Rosemary Foot (Oxford: St. Martin's Press, 1994, pp.xi + 262, £40. Imperial Burdens: Countercolonialism in Former French India by William F.S. Miles (Boulder: Lynne Rienner; 1995, pp.201, $45 hb). Reclaiming The Past? The Search for Political and Cultural Unity in Contemporary Jammu and Kashmir by Vernon Hewitt (London: Portland Books, 1995, pp.212). India Redefines Its Rote: Adelphi Papers 293 by S. Gupta (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp.72, £10.95). Limited Choices; The Political Struggle for Socialism in Tanzania by Dean E. McHenry, Jr. (Boulder Co.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994, pp.xv + 282). Labour Relations in a Developing Country: A Case Study on Zimbabwe by Mark A. Shadur (Aldershot: Avebury, 1994, pp.xiv + 283, £42.50). Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa edited by John Sorenson (London: Macmillan, 1995, pp.xvii + 263, £40; also New York: St. Martin's Press). Religious Impact on the Nation State. The Nigerian Predicament by Pat Williams and Toyin Falola (Aldershot: Avebury 1995, pp.ix + 352, £39.95 hb). British Documents on the End of Empire series B, volume 3, Malaya in 3 parts edited by A.J. Stockwell (London, HMSO for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 1995). Part I, The Malayan Union Experiment, 1942–1948, pp.xciv + 392, maps, £60 hb. Part II, The Communist Insurrection, 1948–1953, pp.xxx + 486, maps, £60 hb. Part III. The Alliance Route to Independence, 1953–1957, pp.xxxii + 458, maps, £60 hb. Violence and the Dream People: The Orang Asli in the Mayalan Emergency, 1948–1960 by John D. Leary (Ohio University Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies Southeast Asia Series No.95, pp.xiii + 238, maps, pb, no price given). Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837–67 by Ged Martin (London: Macmillan, 1995, pp.xi + 388, £47.50 hb). Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories by Robert Bothwell (London: UCL Press, 1995, pp.xiv + 269, £18). Cold War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945–1957, by Reg Whitaker and Gary Marcuse (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp.xxxviii + 511, £22.75). ’Race’, Ethnicity and Nation: International Perspectives on Social Conflict edited by Peter Ratcliffe (London: UCL Press, 1994, pp.256, £38). The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation edited by John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary (London: Routledge, 1993, pp.xi + 321, £12.99). Western Dominance and Political Islam. Challenge and Response by Khalid Bin Sayeed (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp.viii + 197, $19.95 hb). World Bibliographical Series, Vol.28: Cyprus: Revised Edition by Paschalis M. Kitromilides and Marios L. Evrivrades (Oxford: Clio Press, pp.310, £46.50). A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional System of Government by Brian Galligan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp.xi + 283, £35). Multiculturalism, Difference and Postmodernism edited by Gordon L. Clark, Dean Forbes and Roderick Francis (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1993, pp.xiii + 175, £13.99 pb). Towards Consensus? The 1993 Election in New Zealand and the Transition to Proportional Representation by Jack Vowles, Peter Aimer, Helena Catt, Jim Lamare and Raymond Millar (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995, pp.253, $39.95 pb). The Caribbean in the Global Political Economy edited by Hilbourne A. Watson (Boulder London: Lynne Rienner Publishers and Kingston: Ian Rankle Publishers, 1994, pp.ix + 261, $40 hb; $19.95 pb). Socialist Transformation in Peripheral Economies: Lessons from Grenada by Courtney A. Smith (Aldershot: Avebury, 1995, pp.xxi + 282, £37.50 hb). On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean 1934–39, by O. Nigel Bolland (Kingston & London: Ian Randle Publishers/James Currey Publishers, 1995, pp.216, £12.95). Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji by Martha Kaplan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995, pp.226, US$45.95 hb; US$15.95 pb).