Some impressions of modern Turkey

General

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660–1760. By K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii+629. Tables. Figs. Maps. Appendices. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £37.50.

Dictionary of Asian Philosophies. By St Elmo Nauman (Jr). New York, Philosophical Library, Inc., 1978. Pp. 372. Chron. Tables. Pref. $20.00.

Middle East

Middle East Contemporary Surrey Vol. I: 1976–77. Edited by Colin Legum and Haim Shaked. New York and London, Holmes and Meier Publishers Inc., 1978. (For The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University) 1978. Pp. 684. Maps. Tables. Notes. Graphs. Index. £32.50.

Pasargadae. A Report on the Excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. By David Stronach. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xii+326. Figs. Fold‐outs. Plates. Maps. Preface. Appendices. Index. £25.00.

The Islamic Pious Foundations in Jerusalem: Origins, History and Usurpation by Israel. By A. L. Tibawi. London, The Islamic Cultural Centre, 1978. Pp. 72. Maps. Illus. Notes. Appendices. £3.00.

Western Civilisation through Muslim Eyes. By Sayid Mujtaba Rukni Musawi Lari of Iran. Trans, by F. J. Goulding. Tehran, Sadr Publishing House, 1977. Optimus Books, Worthing, Sussex. Pp. xii+146. Foreword. Note. Gloss. £1.00.

Gertrude Bell. By H. V. F. Winstone. London, Jonathan Cape, 1978. Pp. 332. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

South Asia

Politics Mainly Indian. By W. H. Morris‐Jones. Orient Longman, Bombay, 1978. Pp. 392. Intro. Index. Rs. 60.

The Making of the Indian Princes. By Edward Thompson. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1978. First published Oxford University Press, 1943. Pp. 304. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

Khyber. By Charles Miller. Macmillan, New York, 1977. Macdonald and Janes, London, 1977. Pp. xix+393. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

Family Web. A Story of India. By Sarah Hobson. London, John Murray, 1978. Pp. 284. Illus. Gloss. £5.95.

The Ganges in Myth and History. By Steven G. Darian. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1978. Pp. 219. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $9.95.

USSR

Soviet Political Elites. By Ronald J. Hill. London, Martin Robertson, 1977. Pp. 226. Map. Figs. Tables. Graphs. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £8.25.

The Circumpolar North: A Political and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Sub‐Arctic. By Terence Armstrong, George Rogers and Graham Rowley. Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, 1978. Pp. 303. Maps. Tables. Gloss. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £5.95 (paper).

Central Asia

The Gilgit Game. The Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1865–95. By John Keay. John Murray, London, 1979. Pp. 277. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Illus. Gloss. £7.95.

South‐East Asia

The Army and Politics in Indonesia. By Harold Crouch. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1978. Pp. 356. Appendix. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £13.00.

The Indonesian Tragedy. By Brian May. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, Henley &; Boston, 1978. Pp. xvii+413. Illus. Maps. Notes. Gloss. Index. £8.95.

The Politics of Administration. The Malaysian Experience. By Mavis Puthucheary. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford, New York and Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xii+170. Notes. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £15.25.

Many Reasons Why. The American Involvement in Vietnam. By Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrief. Scolar Press, London, 1978. Pp. 250. Maps. Notes. Indices. £10.00 (cloth), £4.50 (paper).

A Concise Legal History of South‐East Asia. By M. B. Hooker. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. 289. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £12.50.

Far East

Revolution and History ‐ Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919–37. By Arif Dirlik. Berkeley, San Francisco and London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. ix+299. Bibliog. Index. £12.25.

Chang Tso‐lin in Northeast China, 1911–1928: China, Japan and the Manchurian Idea. By Gavan McCormack. Folkestone, Dawson, 1977. Pp. 334. Illus. Maps. Index. £12.50.

Militarism in Modern China: The Career of Wu P'ei‐fu 1916–39. By Odoric Y. K. Wou. (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) Folkestone, Dawson; Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978. Pp. 346. Index. £12.50.

Sociology and Socialism in Contemporary China. By Siu‐lun Wong. London, Boston and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. xvi+147. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

The China Station. War and Diplomacy 1830–1860. By Gerald S. Graham. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978. Pp. 444. Maps. Notes. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £15.00.

Ancient China. The Making of the Past. By Patrick FitzGerald. Oxford, Phaidon Press Ltd., 1978. Pp. 151. Illus. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £4.95.

Rural Development: Learning from China. By Sartaj Aziz. London, The Macmillan Press, 1978. Pp. 201. Ulus. Intro. Appendices. Notes. References. Bibliog. Index. £8.95 (hardback) £5.50 (paperback).

Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars. By Edward H. Schafer. Berkeley, Los Angeles. London, California University Press, 1978. Pp. xi+352. Illus. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £18.75.

Confucianism and Christianity; a comparative study. By Julia Cheng. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, Kodansha International in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Religions of Sophia University, Tokyo 1977. (Distributed by Phaidon Press, Oxford, in the United Kingdom). Pp. 234. Notes. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £8.25.

Economic Development of South Korea. The Political Economy of Success. By L. L. Wade and B. S. Kim. Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1978. Pp. 270. Figs. Index. Notes. £12.50.     

Afghanistan since the revolution

Buddhism under Mao. By Holmes Welch. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. 666. Illus.     

Afghanistan in the Great War

The period of the Great War in Afghanistan was one of the most transformational periods of her entire history. Less than a year after the end of the Great War, both Afghanistan and her relations with the rest of the world had changed forever. The article covers Afghanistan and the outbreak of war, the Niedermayer-Hentig mission from Germany, pressure on the frontier and at court, and the aftermath of the Assassination of Amir Habibullah. At Kabul, the emergence of a ‘War Party’, which favoured the declaration of war on India on the side of the Central Powers, caused difficulties for Habibullah's attempt to remain neutral. Although the War Party was to have some support from the Niedermayer-Hentig Mission to Kabul, it was never strong enough to act until the Great War itself was over. On the other side of the frontier, the tribes were expecting to be called to fight at any moment. Keen to raid into the plains, they initially moved too early and were rebuffed but low-level tribal activity took place all over the frontier, though not at the intensity seen in previous large uprisings. At the same time, the Indian Army was taking out the best troops to send to Europe and other fronts, leaving a comparatively small force to protect the frontier. Large scale response to tribal raiding was not possible but the Indian Army was able to deploy aeroplanes, artillery and machine guns as force multipliers to help make up for the lack of fighting men. The cumulative experience was one of change which needed to be understood and accommodated in short order. Men like Sir Denys Bray of the Foreign Department and Mahmud Tarzi and Abdul Quddus Khan in Kabul were able to do this and, in so doing, facilitated Afghanistan's emergence to independence and nationhood.