Book Reviews

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THE DASHING LADIES OF SHIV SENA: Political Matronage in Urbanizing India | By Tarini Bedi

Rina Verma Williams

THAIPUSAM IN MALAYSIA: A Hindu Festival in the Tamil Diaspora | By Carl Vadivella Belle

Andrew C. Willford

STRATEGIC ADJUSTMENT AND THE RISE OF CHINA: Power and Politics in East Asia | Edited by Robert S. Ross and Øystein Tunsjø.

Xiaobing Li

PLACING EMPIRE: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan | By Kate McDonald

Tristan R. Grunow

CHINA-SOUTH KOREA RELATIONS IN THE NEW ERA: Challenges and Opportunities | By Min Ye

Jiye Kim

OUTCASTS OF EMPIRE: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945 | By Paul D. Barclay

Scott Simon

MYANMAR’S ENEMY WITHIN: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim ‘Other’ | By Francis Wade

Bruce Matthews

NO ONE WILL LET HER LIVE: Women’s Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum | By Claire Snell-Rood

Prasad Khanolkar

MORTUARY DIALOGUES: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities | Edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman.

Dan Jorgensen

THE AUTHORITARIAN PUBLIC SPHERE: Legitimation and Autocratic Power in North Korea, Burma, and China | By Alexander Dukalskis

Leif-Eric Easley