Book Reviews : DAVID N. GELLNER, The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 397

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mentality and methods were too Indian for an increasingly racist East India Company army. The last thematic section on ’Military Revolutions’ consists of Simon Digby’s essay ’The Problems of the Military Ascendancy of the Delhi Sultanate (from his War Horse and Elephant, 1971 ), Iqtidar Alam Khan’s ’Early Use of Cannon and Muskets in India, 1442-1526’, Doug Streusand’s ’The Process of Expansion’ and Jos Gommans’ ’Indian Warfare and Afghan Innovation during the Eighteenth Century’. They all contribute, in different ways, to the debate on military techniques of the Turks, the Mughals and the Afghans at the three most crucial conjunctures in medieval Indian history, namely in the thirteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Unfortunately the editors have not standardised the transliteration nor apparently checked for typos. Professor Iqtidar Alam Khan may be embarrassed to find himself the author of an article ’Metallurgy in Medieval India-the Case of the Cast-Iron Cannon’ (p. 34 n. 92; it is an early work by the present reviewer), while Professor Moosvi is referred to as ’Musir’.