MANOHAR BOOK SERVICE 2/6 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110 002 Phones: 3275162, 3262796 1. J.M. HEREDERO , Education for Development—Social Awareness, Organisation and Technological Innovation, 1989, Rs 100 The book is based on a very concrete experiment started twenty years ago and deals with an all-India problem: poverty and sodal discrimination. It details the importance of organisation and explains the role of knowledge— sodal, sdentific, technological—in the fight against injustice. 2. Popular Music in India, 1989, Rs 200 The essays in this collection deal with subjects like the Music of Bauls of Bengal, the performance of Afghan musidan Ann-e Diwaneh as a virtuoso player of dutar, the evolution of phonograph in India, the early years of film music, the complexity of the' forms and distribution of film music since the 1970s, the cassette boom, the influences both foreign and indigenous on Indian film music, the sodal and national implications of its popularity, the musical elements that were explored and assimilated in rock and folk rock groups of 1960s particularly the Beatles and the emergence of distinct music among British bom people of South Asia parentage, etc. 3. BEATRICE FORBES MANZ, The rise and rule of Tamerlane, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, 1989, £ 25 Using Tamerlane's career to examine many questions of broad historical and anthropological interest. Dr. Manz discusses the mechanisms of state formation, the dynamics of tribal politics and the relations of tribes to central leadership. She analyzes the political culture of the tribal confederation within which Tamerlane rose to power and the way in which he transformed it from a loose and unruly confederation into a disdplined army of conquest subservient to 4. PARTHA s. GHOSH, Cooperation and Conflict in South Asia, 1989, Rs 230 Partha Ghosh in this painstaking analysis approaches the problem of conflict in South Asia from the angle of the region's domestic politics. His central argument is that since almost all regimes in South Asia, for historical reasons or otherwise, are existentialist, they respond to political challenges—both domestic and external—in a fashion not conducive to the growth of regionalism. The unscrupulous exploitation by national elites of the region's religious, linguistic, ethnic and demographic problems to further their short-term political interests does not augur well for SAARC. Consequently the growth of regional consdousness though extremely desirable would be painfully slow. 5. IAN TALBOT, Punjab and the Raj 1849-1947, 1988, Rs 190 This volume provides fresh insights into the politics of British India during the dosing period of colonial rule. In particular, it describes as never before, the role played by the Punjab as a bastion of imperial interests, as well as that of the rural idiom of Islam in popularising the Pakistan message. Crucial to both the Muslim League breakthrough and the loyalty of the region was political predominance of the landowners. Their evolving relationship with the British held the key to the region's politics. For this reason, it lies at the heart of this work. • For libraries and individuals 10% discount, post-paid. • Special additional discount for Social Scientist subscribers. Please quote your subscription number with orders.