STATE IN THE MUGHAL INDIA 45 efficient than the musket. The pay scales of the "muskteers" mentioned by Bernier at another place (p.217) indicate that the military personnel to whom he is referring were musket- carrying horsemen. His statement, therefore, should only mean that mouted archers were more efficient than musket-carrying horsemen. 98. See my article, 'Muskets in the Mawas: Instruments of Peasant Resistance' in Making of History: Essays presented to Irfan Habib, ed. K.N.Panikkar, Terence J. Byres and Utsa Patnaik, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 81-2, 92-7. iCENT MANOHAR Anegondi: Architectural Ethnography of a Royal Village Natalie Tobert. Illustrations by Graham Reed This innovative multidisciplinary study, which draws on anthropology, architecture and ethno-archaeology, focuses on the inhabitants and dwellings of a royal village in central Karnataka, only a short distance away from the ruins of Vijayanagara. The volume presents a detailed survey of over fifty houses, ranging from simple one-roomed dwellings to elaborate mansions inhabited by the descendants of the ruling house Anegondi. This volume looks at how people use and understand mythic, historical and present day space through the built forms of their homes and village and also through their pilgrimages to nearby shrines and sacred sites. DR. NATALIE TOBERT is Associate Lecturer with the Open University and the Richmond Upon Thames College. Previously a curator at London's Horniman Museum, she produced a popular exhibition on Indian Village Life, accompanied by a catalogue which featured many photographs of Anegondi. GRAHAM REED, the illustrator responsible for the drawings and maps, currently works in London. ISBN 81-7304-280-2 2000 Demy 4 to 256p. Rs. 1000 Managing Distress: Possession andTherapeutic Cults in South Asia Edited by Marine Carrin Can religious cults be therapeutic? Does therapy just imply that the patient gets relief, or does it enable him to cope with his own imbalance? Do certain traumas result from conflicts with kin, or from ritual transgressions, specific to the culture? These questions concern the relation of the individual to his culture, and the imagery of the person to that of illness and mental disturbance. The contributors to this volume draw on anthropology as well as psychotherapy in their case studies from South and South-East Asia. Possession, in various forms, is at the core of such healing rituals. Exploring multiple therapy systems, including allopathy, astrology and exorcism, this book shows that healing rituals allow communication between cultural codes. MARINE CARRIN, a senior researcher of the CNRS based at Toulouse, has worked among the Santals of Bengal and Orissa since the early seventies, and is the author of La fleur et'os, on Santal ritual and symbolism, and Enfants de la Deesse, dealing, with marginal priesthood on the frontier of tribal and caste society. She is currently working on ritual and the image of the forest in coastal Karnataka. ISBN 81-7304-212-0 Demy 8vo 1999 203p. Rs. 400 MANOHAR PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS 2/6 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110002 Phones: 3275162, 3284848 • Fax: 3265162 e-mail: MANBOOKS@GIASDL01 .VSNLNET.IN