| 2 | Director's note Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS) |

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| 1 - 4 | Crises of governance / Imran Ali |
| 3 | Pakistan, an abundance of problems and scant knowledge / Kristoffel Lieten |
| 5 - 6 | Lords of a Dubai labour camp: Pakistani migrants in the Gulf / Magnus Marsden |
| 6 - 7 | The quiet evolution: Islam and women's rights in Pakistan / Martin Lau |
| 8 - 9 | Primary education, lagging behind / Afke de Groot & Kristoffel Lieten |
| 10 | Violence and love: the mobilisation of Karachi's Mohajir youth / Nichola Khan |
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| 11 | A lesson for Asia? Maintaining socio-economic security in old age: a European perspective / Alan Walker |
| 12 - 13 | ‘Stilled to silence at 500 metres': making sense of historical change in Southeast Asia / James C. Scott |
| 14 - 15 | Captive elephant management, the Tharu, and the Nepali state / Piers Locke |
| 16 | In conversation with Kunal Basu / Rituparna Roy |
| 17 | Ancient corpus under digital scrutiny: deciphering lexical structure of the Veda / Alexandre Sotov |
| 18 - 19 | National monuments and social construction in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan / Irina Morozova |
| 20 - 21 | Early adopters: debunking stereotypes of Buddhist attitudes towards technology / Andrew Glass |
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| 22 - 23 | Singapore Indians, a brief note / Vidya Murthy |
| 24 - 25 | Pioneering portraits: early photography in Japan / Tani Akiyoshi & Oliver Moore |
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| 26 | New For Review |
| 27 | Bookmarked |
| 27 | Write a review on newasiabooks.org / Thomas Voorter |
| 28 | How the West will cope with the ‘Asian century' / Thomas S. Wilkins |
| 29 | Two journeys to the centre of the colonial project / Joost Cote |
| 30 - 31 | Audible lessons in self / Constantine Sandis |
| 31 | After Alexander / Andrew Glass |
| 32 | ‘You don't have to be English to play Elgar': the globalisation of Western music / Nicholas Tarling |
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| 33 - 34 | Network Asia |
| 35 | Announcements |
| 36 - 37 | IIAS Research |
| 37 | The ‘ICAS miracle': Preparing for ICAS 6 in Daejeon in August 2009 / Paul van der Velde |
| 38 | IIAS Fellows |
| 39 | International Conference Agenda |
| 40 | Colophon |