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Reviews the book "For India," by W. W. Pearson.

Reviews the book "The Other Side of the Medal," by Edward Thompson.

Reviews the book "My India, My America," by Krishnalal Shridharani.

This article presents critical appraisal of the book "Ambassador's Report," by Chester Bowles. In his book, Bowles has written the story of the year and a half he spent in India partly as a personal diary of the impressions and activities of his family during that time and partly as an analysis of and report on the conditions and problems he encountered. In either capacity, it is a truthful, thoughtful and eminently readable book. There are a number of things in it with which Indians might argue, but such disagreement is healthy among friends-and the heartening quality of "Ambassador's Report'' is that it is written by a critical but understanding friend.

Reviews the book "All India Rural Credit Survey: The General Report." vol. 2.

Reviews the book "The Role of Small Enterprises in Indian Economic Development," by P.N. Dhar and H.F. Lydall.

Reviews the book "Portrait of India," by Bradford Smith.

Reviews the book "Land and Labour in India," by Daniel Thorner and Alice Thorner.

Reviews the book "L'Inde indépendante," by Charles Bettelheim.

Reviews the book "Caste in Modern India and Other Essays," by M. N. Srinivas.

Reviews the book "Foreign Enterprise in India," by Matthew J. Kust.

Reviews the book 'St Anthony's Papers, No. 18, South Asian Affairs, Number Two. The Movement for National Freedom in India,' edited by S.N. Mukherjee.

Reviews the book "Economics of Development in Village India," by M.R. Haswell.

The article focuses on the book "Social Mobility in the Caste System in India. An Interdisciplinary Symposium," edited by James Silverberg. In the book, author aim to further an understanding of the nature, extent and significance of social mobility in a caste system and to uncover the mechanisms and determinants involved. The book offers a review of the sociological concern with social mobility in the caste system as a general set of processes. A set of four papers presents and evaluates evidence concerning social mobility, based in three instances on recent first-hand observations and in the fourth on data extracted from the medieval period by the techniques of the historian. The first two papers are the products of anthropological field research in rural communities: a South Indian case by researcher Edward B. Harper, who combines ethnographic and ethnohistorical methods; a North Indian case by researcher William L. Rowe, who gathered his ethnographic data not only among the Caubans of the village in which he lived but also from their city-dwelling caste fellows, the politicians and other professionals whom he interviewed in Bombay, India and several urban centres of North India.

Reviews the book 'Evaluating the Results of Foreign Policy: Soviet and American Efforts in India,' by Richard L. Siegel.

Reviews the book 'Indian Educational Reforms in Cultural Perspective,' by T.M. Thomas.

Reviews the book 'A Critical Study of Tribal Education,' by Nawal Kishore Ambasht.

The article reviews the exhibition "A Flower From Every Meadow" featuring Indian art at the Asia House Gallery in Manhattan, New York City.

Reviews the book "Crisis of Indian Unity 1917-1940," by R. J. Moore.

Reviews the book "Gokhale, Gandhi and the Nehrus: Studies in Indian Nationalism," by B. R. Nanda.

Reviews the book 'Mughal Administration in Golconda,' by J.F. Richards.

This paper studies reproductive behaviour (ideal jamily size, completed family size and family planning acceptance) in a rural Indian area which was rapidly industrialising. Two castes and eleven villages were sampled. It was found that family planning was quite common and that fertility differentials among couples were related to the couples' unique socioeconomic characteristics as well as to two group level variables (caste and village). The latter result was shown to be statistically significant, for all three measures of reproductive behaviour, even after many unique socioeconomic characteristics and attitudes of each couple were accounted for statistically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "One Smart Indian," by Robert J. Seidman.

Reviews the book "Nehru," by B. N. Pandey.

Reviews the book 'Agrarian Change and the New Technology in India,' by Biplab Dasgupta.

Reviews the book 'The Ordeal of Love: C.F. Andrews and India,' by Hugh Tinker.

The article reviews the book "Indian Universities: an historical, comparative perspective," by Champa Tickoo.

Reviews the book 'Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography. Volume 2, 1947-1956,' by Sarvepalli Gopal.

Reviews the book 'Tales of the Punjab,' compiled by Flora Annie Steel, with illustrations by David Gentleman.

Reviews the book 'India: A Rising Middle Power,' edited by John W. Mellor, with foreword by Phillips Talbot.

The article discusses the book "Peasants in History: Essays in Honor of Daniel Thorner," edited by E.J. Hobsbawm, W. Kulla, A. Mitra, K. N. Raj and I. Sachs. The article points out that the book is an impressive memorial to Daniel Thorner, a prolific scholar in the distinction of the contributors and the wide range of issues, which have been taken to be representative of Thorner's concerns. The collection is an interesting reflection not only of Thorner's interests, but also of the current state of the literature on peasants. The book is divided into different sections and the first section of the book contains papers relating to European peasantries. The second section focuses on India and Asia and the third section raises policy issues relating to economic development. Themes of peasants and capitalism, differentiation amongst the peasantry, reform, and peasants and socialism are also highlighted in the book. The book features the elimination of the peasantry in Scotland, the persistence of magnetization amongst Polish peasants during the second serfdom, the changing character of Indian villages and the long-term impact of land reform on peasants and landlords.

Reviews the book 'Agricultural Development of India: Policy and Problems,' edited by C.H. Shah and C.N. Vakil.

Reviews the book 'Ecological Genetics and Evolution: The Cactus--Yeast--Drosophila,' edited by J.S. Barker and W.T. Starmer.

Reviews the book 'Mountbatten: A Biography,' by Philip Ziegler.

Reviews the book 'Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India,' by Marc Galanter.

Reviews the book 'The City of Joy,' by Dominique Lapierre.

This article relates the author's experience as she attended a performance of the oral epic, Candaini, in the Chhattisgarh region of central India in 1985. According to the author, the performance resulted in what she calls a failed performance. More than half of the audience walked away within the first hour and a half of what normally would have been a 5 to 6 hour performance; after another half an hour, only 20 out of approximately 150 audience members were still sitting in the performance clearing. Furthermore, many audience members verbalized discontent with the performance, both during and after the performance, although they did not specifically call it a "failure." Candaini is the story of the hero Lorik and heroine Candaini, both from the Raut cowherding caste. Each is married to someone else, but Candaini leaves her husband when she learns he is impotent. Back in her maternal village, she meets Lorik: they fall in love and, after some delays, elope together. In Chhattisgarh, epic performances usually center upon and elaborate various episodes leading up to and including the long, eventful elopement journey. Eventually, Lorik and Candaini return home and live with Lorik's extended family, including his first wife. But it is said that Lorik was never satisfied after his return and one day wandered off into the countryside, never to be seen again.

Reviews the book 'Oxford University Papers on India,' vol. 1, pt. 2, edited by N.J. Allen, R.F. Gombrich, T. Raychaudhuri and G. Rizvi.

Reviews the book 'Men to Bombay, Women at Home: Urban Influence on Sugao Village, Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1942-1982,' by Hemalata C. Dandekar.

Reviews the book `The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives,' edited by Francis Robinson.

The article reviews the book "Indian Paintings and Drawings From the Collection of Howard Hodgkin," by Andrew Topsfield and Milo Cleveland.

The article reviews the book "Trade, Tariffs and Empire: Lancashire and British Policy in India 1919-1939," by Basudev Chatterji.

The article reviews the book "Ports and Their Hinterlands in India 1700-1950," edited by Indu Banga.

The article reviews the book "Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture," by Murray Milner Jr.

The article reviews the book "Improving Women's Health in India."