Book reviews

AUSTRALIAN ABC Historical Dictionary of Australia, James C. Docherty, Oceanian Historical Dictionaries, No 1, The Scarecrow Press, Inc, Metuchen, NJ, and London, 1992. SOUTH PACIFIC STABILITY Regional Security in the South Pacific The Quarter‐century 1970–1995, Ken Ross, Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No 100, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 1993, 206pp, ISBN 0 7315 1597 8. NEED FOR NEW REALISM South Asia in a Changing International Order, Gowher Rizvi, Sage Publications, New Delhi, Newbury Park, CA and London, 1993, 183 pp, Rs 120. PRE‐HISTORY OF PAKISTAN The Political Inheritance of Pakistan, D. A. Low (editor), Macmillan, London, 1991. Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia: The Communalization of Class Politics in East Bengal, 1920–1947, Taj ul‐Islam Hashmi,…