the focus of Sathyamurthy's analysis is not on the pivotal role of the intelligentsia. On the contrary, he strongly argues that nationalism should not be equated with, and is not encompassed by, 'elite' nationalism where the mass of the populace is dismissed in its 'passivity'. Further criticism, in his review of academic thinking on nationalism, is directed towards perspectives that postulate an inevitable evolution for societies along a continuum from the traditional to the modern, and where the two are considered mutually exclusive. Such an approach typified US political science in the 1960s. A far more valid interpretation, derived from the work of social anthropologists and historians, is an interdisciplinary and comparative one, which seeks to connect the past, the present, and the future of a nation in relation to colonial implantation and domination. In particular, Sathyamurthy's analysis owes much to the ideas of Balandier (1970), and more specifically to Humphrey's research (1976) on nationalism and colonialism in Algeria, a work unfortunately not available in published form.Apart from the need to link indigenous social change with colonialism, and the dynamic interaction between social and political forces at different levels, ranging from the local to the national, nationalism must also be situated in the increasingly complex international order and the contradictions generated between imperialism and national liberation movements. Thus his studies of nation-states in Africa (Uganda), Asia (Burma, Bangladesh, and India) and the developed world (Scotland), the latter included to complete the world tour, demonstrate the diversity of nationalist forces, movements, and sentiments. Hence Sathyamurthy has avoided the danger of constructing general theories on the basis of specific regionalised types of nationalism arising from a particular colonial administration.Even within the same region, he rightly emphasises the differences. For example, Uganda, compared with its neighbours, Kenya and Tanzania, had relatively little anticolonial opposition, which was subordinate to the effort of ensuring or containing, depending on whose point of view, the supremacy of the dominant tribe, the Buganda. The study of Burma, a country with a short period of colonial adminstration, illustrates the important role played by organised Buddhism in influencing nationalist priorities in the interwar period. Furthermore, the "motley crew of men with Western education" (page 157) were only one of three centres of nationalist power in this period, all unable to create a coherent nationalist ideology.An altogether less satisfactory account of substate nationalism is given for the developed world for which "it would be reasonable to conclude that the basic difficulties are confined to the economic sphere of participation and surplus extraction" (page 81). The choice of Scotland would seem to correspond more closely to his thesis than other more politically successful nationalisms, such as the Basque with its much greater support for n...