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December 2001, Volume 38, Issue 4
- 473-474 Book Reviews : PHILIPPE CADÈNE and DENIS VIDAL, eds, Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, pp. 196
by Tirthankar Roy - 475-477 Book Reviews : UDAY SINGH MEHTA, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 232
by Amiya Kumar Bagchi - 478-480 Book Reviews : NITA KUMAR, Lessons from Schools: The History of Education in Banaras, New Delhi, Sage, 2000, pp. 233
by Clare Talwalker - 480-482 Book Reviews : EDWIN GREEN and SARA KINSEY, The Paradise Bank: The Mercantile Bank of India, 1893-1984, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999, pp. 272
by Prabhu Guptara - 482-484 Book Reviews : MUZAFFAR ALAM and SEEMA ALAVI, trs and eds, A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The I'jâz-i Arsalânî (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. xvi + 422
by Michael H. Fisher - 484-486 Book Reviews : AJAY PRATAP, The Hoe and the Axe: An Ethnohistory of Shifting Cultivation in Eastern India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 157
by Upinder Singh - 487-489 Book Reviews : PETER ANDREW, Felt Tents and Pavilions: The Nomadic Tradition and its Interaction with Princely Tentage, London, Melisende, 1999, 2 vols, pp. 1,472
by Ebba Koch - 490-492 Book Reviews : PREM CHOWDHRY, Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000
by T. Muraleedharan - 492-495 Book Reviews : BRADLEY R. HERTEL and CYNTHIA ANN HUMES, eds, Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context, New Delhi, Manohar, 1998, pp. 320
by Nita Kumar
September 2001, Volume 38, Issue 3
- 223-248 Gender politics and the Urdu ghazal: Exploratory observations on Rekhta versus Rekhti
by Carla Petievich - 249-270 Scientific experiments in British India: Scientists, indigo planters and the state, 1890-1930
by Prakash Kumar - 271-297 Homeless in Gujarat and India: On the curious love of Indulal Yagnik
by Ajay Skaria - 299-324 Kings and commerce on an agrarian frontier: Kalketu's story in Mukunda's Candimangal
by David L. Curley - 325-327 Book Reviews : Wim Van Spengen, Tibetan Border Worlds: A Geohistorical Analysis of Trade and Traders, London/New York, Kegan Paul International, 2000, pp. 307
by Bernardo A. Michael - 327-329 Book Reviews : Raka Ray, Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 2000, pp. 217
by Kalpana Viswanath - 329-330 Book Reviews : Javeed Alam, India, Living with Modernity, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 241
by Ranabir Samaddar - 330-333 Book Reviews : John Zavos, The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 245
by Bidyut Chakrabarty - 333-335 Book Reviews : Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999
by Nivedita Menon - 335-337 Book Reviews : D.L. Sheth and Gurpreet Mahajan, eds, Minority Identities and the Nation-State, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 334
by Sanjay Palshikar - 337-339 Book Reviews : Mariam Dossal and Ruby Maloni, eds, State Intervention and Popular Response: Western India in the Nineteenth Century, Mumbai, Popular Prakashan, 1999
by Padma Anagol - 340-342 Book Reviews : Sucheta Mahajan, Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2000, pp. 425
by Bidyut Chakrabarty - 342-344 Book Reviews : David Arnold, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 234
by Nasir Tyabji - 344-347 Book Reviews : David Ludden, The New Cambridge History of India IV. 4: An Agrarian History of South Asia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 261
by Chetan Singh - 347-348 Book Reviews : Bipan Chandra, Essays on Colonialism, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 1999, pp. 365
by Biswamoy Pati - 349-352 Book Reviews : Parnendu S. Kavoori, Pastoralism in Expansion: The Transhuming Herders of Rajasthan, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 210, and Arun Agrawal, Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 219
by Marcia J. Frost
June 2001, Volume 38, Issue 2
- 105-145 Remains of the race: Archaeology, nationalism, and the yearning for civilisation in the Indus valley
by Sumathi Ramaswamy - 147-179 Development and death: Reinterpreting malaria, economics and ecology in British India
by Ira Klein - 181-205 Imperial policy and the decline of the Bengal salt industry under colonial rule: An episode in the 'de-industrialisation' process
by Indrajit Ray - 207-209 Book Reviews : MADHU KISHWAR, Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Indian Women, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 290
by Nivedita Menon - 209-211 Book Reviews : RAMACHANDRA GUHA and JONATHAN P. PARRY, eds, Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of André Béteille, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 302
by Carol Upadhya - 211-214 Book Reviews : TIRTHANKAR ROY, Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xi + 252
by Douglas E. Haynes - 214-216 Book Reviews : INDRANI CHATTERJEE, Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 286
by David Gilmartin - 216-218 Book Reviews : ALF HILTEBEITEL, Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims and Dalits, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 560
by Cynthia Talbot - 218-220 Book Reviews : PRADIP KUMAR DATTA, Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Twentieth-Century Bengal, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 312
by Gail Minault - 220-222 Book Reviews : BONNIE C. WADE, Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art and Culture in Mughal India, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1998
by Pulin Nayak
March 2001, Volume 38, Issue 1
- 3-31 New intellectuals in seventeenth-century India
by Sheldon Pollock - 33-58 'Through throats where many rivers meet': The ecology of Hindi in the world of Persian
by Shantanu Phukan - 59-79 Vernacular histories in late nineteenth-century Banaras: Folklore, PurÄ nas and the new antiquarianism
by Vasudha Dalmia - 81-103 Languages, families and the plural learning of the nineteenth-century intelligentsia
by Nita Kumar
December 2000, Volume 37, Issue 4
- 383-422 Sitting on the school verandah: The ideology and practice of 'untouchable' educational protest in late nineteenth-century western India
by Philip Constable - 423-445 Debt, time and extravagance: Money and the making of 'primitives' in colonial Bengal
by Prathama Banerjee - 447-478 Leaders and publics: Stories in the time of transition
by Ranabir Samaddar - 479-481 Book Reviews : A.R. VASAVI, Harbingers of Rain: Land and Life in South India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 178
by Haruka Yanagisawa - 481-484 Book Reviews : NEERA CHANDHOKE, Beyond Secularism: The Rights of Religious Minorities, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999,pp. 321
by Javeed Alam - 484-486 Book Reviews : PAUL ERIK BAAK, Plantation, Production and Political Power: Plantation Devel opment in South-west India in a Long Term Historical Perspective, 1743-1963, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 370
by V.J. Varghese - 486-488 Book Reviews : M. MUFAKHARUL ISLAM, Irrigation, Agriculture and the Raj: Punjab, 1887-1947, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, pp. 180
by David Gilmartin - 488-490 Book Reviews : S. IRFAN HABIB and DHRUV RAINA, eds, Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 358
by Nasir Tyabji - 490-491 Book Reviews : MEENA BHARGAVA, State, Society and Ecology: Gorakhpur in Transition,1750-1830, Delhi, Manohar, 1999,pp. 279
by Tirthankar Roy - 491-494 Book Reviews : ARTHUR KLEINMAN, VEENA DAS and MARGARET LOCK, eds, Social Suffering, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 404
by Suvir Kaul - 494-496 Book Reviews : GEOFFREY ODDIE, Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal, 1814-1887, Richmond, Curzon Press, 1999, pp. xiv + 261
by Prabhu Guptara
September 2000, Volume 37, Issue 3
- 259-294 Language and power in pre-colonial western India: Textual hierarchies, literate audiences and colonial philology
by Veena Naregal - 295-329 Coping with scarcity: Wild foods and common lands: Kheda district (Gujarat, India), 1824/5
by Marcia J. Frost - 331-359 'Beyond the reach of monkeys and men'? O'Shaughnessy and the telegraph in India c. 1836-56
by Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury - 361-364 Book Reviews : MATTHEW H. EDNEY, Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843, Chicago/London, University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 458
by Kapil Raj - 364-366 Book Reviews : VASANT SABERWAL, Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats and Conservation in the Western Himalaya, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 246
by Chetan Singh - 366-368 Book Reviews : ROBERT DELIÈGE, (Nora Scott, tr.), The Untouchables of India, London, Berg, 1999, pp. 229
by Vijay Prashad - 368-371 Book Reviews : E.R.HAMBYE, History of Christianity, Volume III, Eighteenth Century, Bangalore, The Christian History Association of India, 1997, pp. 562
by Suguna Ramanathan - 371-372 Book Reviews : CHETAN SINGH, Natural Premises: Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalaya, 1800-1950, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 252
by Nandini Sundar - 372-374 Book Reviews : TESSA J. BARTHOLOMEUSZ, Women under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, 1994
by Richard H. Davis - 374-376 Book Reviews : G. BALACHANDRAN, The Reserve Bank of India, 1951-1967, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 1190
by Nasir Tyabji - 377-378 Book Reviews : HOWARD L. TURNER, Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 262
by Iqbal G. Khan - 378-381 Book Reviews : GAURI VISWANATHAN, Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity and Belief, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 332
by Sasheej Hegde
June 2000, Volume 37, Issue 2
- 121-149 Hindu women, Muslim men: Cleavages in shared spaces of everyday life, United Provinces, c. 1890-1930
by Charu Gupta - 151-183 Valorising the 'vulgar': Nationalist appropriations of colloquial Bengali traditions, c. 1870-1905
by Anindita Ghosh - 185-213 Science, nationalism, and colonial contestations: P.C. Ray and his Hindu Chemistry
by Pratik Chakraborty - 215-237 Representing 'his' women: MirzĀ Abū Talib KhĀn's 1801 'Vindication of the liberties of Asiatic women'
by Michael H. Fisher - 239-241 Book Reviews : PATRICIA JEFFERY and AMRITA BASU, eds, Resisting the Sacred and the Secular: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1999, pp. 276. RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN, ed., Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1999, pp. 381
by Carol Upadhya - 241-243 Book Reviews : RADHIKA SINGHA, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998
by Sandria Freitag - 244-245 Book Reviews : SUZANNE LEWIS, The Rhetoric of Power in the Bayeux Tapestry, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 169
by Mani Shekhar Singh - 246-247 Book Reviews : GEORGE MICHELL and MARK ZEBROWSKI, Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates. The New Cambridge History of India I: 7, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 297
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 247-249 Book Reviews : S.M. MICHAEL, ed., Dalits in Modern India: Vision and Values, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 355
by Vijay Prashad - 249-251 Book Reviews : MEENAKSHI THAPAN, ed., Anthropological Journeys. Reflections on Fieldwork, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1998
by Roma Chatterji - 251-253 Book Reviews : Arthur G. Rubinoff, The Construction of a Political Community: Integration and Identity in Goa, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998, pp. 173
by Rowena Robinson - 253-255 Book Reviews : RANABIR SAMADDAR, The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998, pp. 227
by Bidyut Chakrabarty - 255-257 Book Reviews : BEATRICE VOGT, Skill and Trust: The Tovil Healing Ritual of Sri Lanka as Culture-Specific Psychotherapy, translated from the Dutch by Michael J. Kohn, Sri Lanka Studies no. 6, Amsterdam, VU University Press, 1999, pp. 358
by Renu Addlakha
March 2000, Volume 37, Issue 1
- 1-25 Credit, work and race in 1790s Calcutta: Early colonialism through a contemporary European view
by Peter Robb - 27-50 Smallpox and the impact of vaccination among the Parsees of Bombay
by Jayant Banthia & Tim Dyson - 53-86 A slave's quest for selfhood in eighteenth-century Hindustan
by Indrani Chatterjee - 87-88 Book Reviews : MICHAEL R. ANDERSON and SUMIT GUHA, eds, Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 288
by Nita Kumar - 88-91 Book Reviews : M. ATHAR ALI, The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 294
by Munis D. Faruqui - 91-92 Book Reviews : VÉRONIQUE ROUILLIER, Ascètes et Rois—Un monastère de Kanphata Yogis au Népal, Paris, CNRS Editions, 1997
by Dominique-Sila Khan - 92-94 Book Reviews : UMA CHAKRAVARTI, Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1998, pp. 370
by Rajat Kanta Ray - 94-96 Book Reviews : CHARLES R. EPP, The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 326; GURPREET MAHAJAN, Identities and Rights: Aspects of Liberal Democracy in India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 190; SATISH SABERWAL and HEIKO SIEVERS, eds, Rules, Laws, Constitutions, New Delhi, Sage, 1998, pp. 289; and STANLEY YEO, Unrestrained Killings and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the Laws of Provocation and Excessive Self-Defence in India, England and Australia, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 210
by Neera Chandhoke - 97-99 Book Reviews : V. GEETHA and S.V. RAJADURAI, Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar, Calcutta, Samya, 1998, pp. 556
by Sumathi Ramaswamy - 99-102 Book Reviews : IRINA GLUSHKOVA and ANNE FELDHAUS,eds, House and Home in Maharashtra, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 243
by Aniket Jaaware - 102-104 Book Reviews : J.S. GREWAL, Contesting Interpretations of the Sikh Tradition, New Delhi, Manohar, 1998, pp. 315
by J.P.S. Uberoi - 104-105 Book Reviews : MUSHIRUL HASAN, ed., Islam, Communities and the Nation: Muslim Identities in South Asia and Beyond, New Delhi, Manohar, 1998, pp. 530
by Steven Wilkinson - 106-107 Book Reviews : MUSHIRUL HASAN, ed., Knowledge, Power & Politics—Educational Institutions in India, Delhi, Roli Books: Lotus collection, 1998, pp. 463
by Suresh Chandra Shukla - 108-109 Book Reviews : ROGER JEFFERY, ed., The Social Construction of Indian Forests, New Delhi/ Edinburgh, Manohar Publishers, Centre for South Asian Studies, 1998
by Ann Grodzins Gold - 109-111 Book Reviews : MARY E. JOHN and JANAKI NAIR, eds, A Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1998, pp. 412
by Kalpana Viswanath - 111-114 Book Reviews : OM PRAKASH, European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-colonial India: The New Cambridge History of India, Vol. II (5), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 377
by Chetan Singh - 114-116 Book Reviews : SUMATHI RAMASWAMY, Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970, California, University of California Press, 1997, pp. 303
by Lakshmi Subramanian - 116-118 Book Reviews : BHARATI RAY and APARNA BASU, eds, From Independence Towards Freedom Since 1947, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 248
by Kalpana Viswanath - 118-119 Book Reviews : MRINALINI SINHA, Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1997
by Susan Visvanathan
December 1999, Volume 36, Issue 4
- 407-429 Re-forming the Indian: Treatment regimes in the lunatic asylums of British India, 1857-1880
by James H. Mills - 431-459 Coinage, trade and economy in early South India and its Southeast Asian neighbours
by Kenneth R. Hall - 461-484 Suffragism and internationalism: The enfranchisement of British and Indian women under an imperial state
by Mrinalini Sinha - 485-486 Book Reviews : GUNNEL CEDERLÖF, Bonds Lost: Subordination, Conflict and Mobilisation in Rural South India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 276
by A.R. Venkatachalapathy - 486-488 Book Reviews : SATHIANATHAN CLARKE, Dalits and Christianity: Subaltern Religion and Liberation Theology in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1998, pp. 256. RAYMOND WILLIAMS, Christian Pluralism in the United States, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 315
by Suguna Ramanathan - 488-490 Book Reviews : ANTONY COPLEY, Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late Colonial India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 279
by Meena Radhakrishna - 490-492 Book Reviews : CHRISTOPHER V. HILL, River of Sorrow: Environment and Social Control in Riparian North India, 1770-1994, Association For Asian Studies, Michigan, 1997, pp. 200
by Meena Bhargava - 492-494 Book Reviews : SUBRATA K. MITRA and DIETMAR ROTHERMUND, eds, Legitimacy and Conflict in South Asia, Manohar, New Delhi, pp. 279
by Sudha Pai - 494-497 Book Reviews : NARIAKI NAKAZATO, Agrarian System in Eastern Bengal c. 1870-1910, K.P. Bagchi and Company, Calcutta/New Delhi, 1994, pp. 337. CHITTA PANDA, The Decline of the Bengal Zamindars. Midnapore 1870-1920, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 231
by Alok Sheel - 497-500 Book Reviews : PETER ROBB, Ancient Rights and Future Comfort in Bihar: The Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 and British Rule in India, Curzon Press, Richmond, 1997, pp. 378
by B.B. Chaudhuri - 500-501 Book Reviews : VINAY KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 314
by Arun Agrawal - 501-503 Book Reviews : LAKSHMI SUBRAMANIAN, Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 380
by Asiya Siddiqi - 504-505 Book Reviews : DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI, Historical Roots of Industrial Entrepreneurship in India and Japan: A Comparative Interpretation, Manohar, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 162
by Tirthankar Roy
August 1999, Volume 36, Issue 3
- 271-273 Editors' note: Markets in history—Concepts and outcomes of commercialisation in South Asia
by Jairus Banaji & Tirthankar Roy - 275-302 Market formation in Khandesh, c. 1820-1930
by Douglas E. Haynes - 303-333 Colonial ideologies of the market and famine policy in Ahmednagar district, Bombay Presidency, c. 1870-1884
by David Hall-Matthews - 335-353 Weak states and strong markets in South Asian development, c. 1700-1970
by Sumit Guha - 355-387 Market success or community failure? Common property resources in colonial north India and a case illustration from a cluster
by Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul - 389-391 Book Reviews : ARUN BANERJI, Finances in the Early Raj: Investments and the External Sector, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1995, 338 pp
by Tirthankar Roy - 391-392 Book Reviews : LINDSEY HARLAN and PAUL B. COURTRIGHT, eds, From the Margins of Hindu Marriage : Essays on Gender, Religion and Culture, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995, 250 pp
by Kumkum Roy - 393-395 Book Reviews : ANITA RAINA THAPAN, Understanding Ganapati: Insights into the Dynamics of a Cult, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, 304 pp
by Greg Bailey - 395-397 Book Reviews : RANABIR SAMADDAR, Memory, Identity, Power: Politics in the Jungle Mahals (West Bengal) 1890-1950, Chennai, Orient Longman, 1998, 290 pp
by Biswamoy Pati - 397-399 Book Reviews : RALPH SHLOMOWITZ with LANCE BRENNAN and JOHN McDONALD, Mortality and Mi gration in the Modern World, Aldershot, Variorum, 1996, x + 339 pp
by Waltraud Ernst - 399-402 Book Reviews : SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 400 pp
by Asiya Siddiqi - 403-406 Short Notices
by N/A
June 1999, Volume 36, Issue 2
- 131-163 The reinvention of a tradition: Nationalism, Carnatic music and the Madras Music Academy, 1900-1947
by Lakshmi Subramanian - 165-186 Slave-queen, waif-prince: Slavery and social capital in eighteenth-century India
by Indrani Chatterjee & Sumit Guha - 187-237 Making of a popular debate: The Indian Forester and the emerging agenda of state forestry in India, 1875-1904
by Satpal Sangwan - 239-257 Artisans and monastic credit in early twentieth century Himachal
by Mahesh Sharma - 259-260 Book Reviews : Dharma Kumar, Colonialism, Private Property, and the State, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 385
by David Ludden - 260-263 Book Reviews : Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 229
by Nivedita Menon - 263-263 Book Reviews : Adrian Hastings, The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 235
by T.N. Madan - 263-265 Book Reviews : Jamal Malik, Colonialization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan, Delhi, Manohar, 1996, pp. 349
by Nita Kumar - 265-266 Book Reviews : Lynette Olson, ed., Religious Change, Conversion and Culture, Sydney, Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, 1996, pp. 273
by T.N. Madan - 266-268 Book Reviews : Peter Robb, ed., Meanings of Agriculture, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 389
by Tirthankar Roy - 269-270 Book Reviews : Wendy Salmond, The Arts and Crafts in Late Imperial Russia: Reviving the Kustar Art Industries, 1870-1917, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 270
by Madhavan K. Palat
March 1999, Volume 36, Issue 1
- 1-34 Transition zones: Changing landscapes and local authority in south-west Bengal, 1880s-1920s
by K. Sivaramakrishnan - 35-67 Conceiving mobility: Weavers' migrations in pre-colonial and colonial India
by Douglas E. Haynes & Tirthankar Roy - 69-113 Friday's child: Or how Tej Singh became Tecinkurajan
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 115-119 Book Reviews : RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE and LAKSHMI SUBRAMANIAN, eds, Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 281
by Dietmar Rothermund - 119-120 Book Reviews : ZAHEER BABER, The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 298
by Nasir Tyabji - 120-122 Book Reviews : RAJEEV BHARGAVA, ed., Secularism and Its Critics, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 562
by P.K. Dutta - 123-125 Book Reviews : IAN COPLAND, The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 302
by Partha Sarathi Gupta - 125-126 Book Reviews : DIPANKAR GUPTA, Rivalry and Brotherhood: Politics in the Life of Farmers in Northern India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 218
by Amita Baviskar - 127-128 Book Reviews : DAMAN SINGH, The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram, New Delhi. Tata Energy Research Institute, 1996, pp. 301
by Mahesh Rangarajan
December 1998, Volume 35, Issue 4
- 359-378 Sikka and the crown: Genesis of the Native Coinage Act, 1876
by Sanjay Garg - 381-404 Labour unsettled: Mobility and protest in the Madras region, 1750-1800
by Ravi Ahuja - 405-419 Trading activities of Indians in East Africa (with special reference to slavery) in the nineteenth century
by N. Benjamin - 421-442 Bubonic plague in south Bihar: Gaya and Shahabad districts, 1900-1924
by Alok Sheel - 443-444 Book Reviews : HENRIETTE BUGGE, Mission and Tamil Society: Social and Religious Change in South India (1840-1900), Surrey, Curzon Press, 1994, in collaboration with Nordisk Institut for Asienstudier (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), Copenhagen, Monograph Series # 65, pp. xiv + 223, Price not mentioned
by Susan Visvanathan - 444-445 Book Reviews : PARTHA CHATTERJEE, A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 301, Rs. 495. PARTHA CHATTERJEE, The Present History of West Bengal: Essays in Political Criticism, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 223, Rs. 375
by Partho Datta - 445-447 Book Reviews : DAVID LUDDEN, ed., Making India Hindu: Religion, Community and the Politics of Democracy in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 346 pp, Rs. 495
by T.N. Madan - 447-449 Book Reviews : SHAIL MAYARAM, Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 298, Rs. 475
by Badri Narayan - 449-451 Book Reviews : ANTHONY GORDON O'BRIEN, The Ancient Chronology of Thar: The Bhattika, Laukika and Sindh Eras, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 211 + 16 plates and 2 maps, Rs. 450
by Upinder Singh - 451-455 Book Reviews : CHRISTOPHER SHACKLE and JAVED MAJEED, Hali's Musaddas: The Flow and Ebb of Islam, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, 262 pp, Rs. 395
by C.M. Naim
September 1998, Volume 35, Issue 3
- 229-245 The limited adoption of European-style military forces by eighteenth century rulers in India
by Stewart Gordon - 247-273 Collective bargaining under the common law tradition in Madras in the interwar period
by M. Lakshmanan - 275-292 The English doctor in Sri Lanka
by M.M.M. Mahroof - 293-335 Who was Himmat Bahadur? Gosains, Rajputs and the British in Bundelkhand, ca. 1800
by William R. Pinch - 337-339 Book Reviews : G. BALACHANDRAN, John Bullion's Empire: Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars, Curzon Press, Richmond, pp. xii + 252, 1996
by Tirthankar Roy - 339-341 Book Reviews : VASUDHA DALMIA, The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra andNineteenth-centuryBanaras, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. xii + 490, Rs 575
by Nita Kumar - 341-347 Book Reviews : JOHN KEEGAN, A History of Warfare, Vintage, New York, 1994, pp. xvi + 432, Special Indian Price Rs 400. GEOFFREY PARKER, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp. viii + 408, Special Indian Price Rs 950. CHARLES TOWNSHEND, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997, pp. xii + 354, Price not stated
by Kaushik Roy - 347-349 Book Reviews : CHARLES MALAMOUD, Cooking the World: Ritual and Thought in Ancient India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, translated from the French by David White (French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society), pp. viii + 354, Rs 550
by Kumkum Roy - 350-351 Book Reviews : DESIDERIO PINTO, Piri-Muridi Relationship: A Study of the Nizamuddin Dargah, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1995, pp. vii + 346, Rs 450
by Meenakshi Khanna - 352-353 Book Reviews : HARISH C. SHARMA, Artisans of the Punjab: A Study of Social Change in Historical Perspective 1849-1947, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 167
by Tirthankar Roy - 353-356 Book Reviews : BRUCE G. TRIGGER and WILCOMB E. WASHBURN, eds, The Cambridge History ofthe Native Peoples of tbe Americas, Volume I, North America, Parts I & II, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. xix + 564 (Part I); pp. xix + 500 (Part II)
by Meena Bhargava
June 1998, Volume 35, Issue 2
- 97-123 Coastal trade and voyages in Konkan: The early medieval scenario
by Ranabir Chakravarti - 125-146 Commercialisation of forests, environmental negligence and alienation of tribal rights in Madras Presidency: 1792-1882
by Velayutham Saravanan - 147-177 Towards Dussehra 1831: The revolt of Lallaji Patel
by Amar Farooqui - 179-210 Drawing a line: K. Venkatappa and his publics
by Janaki Nair - 211-212 Book Reviews : DANIEL BROWN, Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought, Cam bridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. x + 185, £30, $49.95
by David Gilmartin - 213-214 Book Reviews : KATE BRITTLEBANK, Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and King ship in a Hindu Domain, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. xxii + 184, Rs 450
by Michael H. Fisher - 214-216 Book Reviews : KRISHNA DUTTA and ANDREW ROBINSON (eds), Selected Letters of Rabin dranath Tagore, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997, pp. xxx + 561, Rs 550
by Sisir Kumar Das - 216-219 Book Reviews : PIETER GORTER, Small Industrialists, Big Ambitions: Economic and Poli tical Networks on a Large Industrial Estate in West India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 216, Rs 395
by Gijsbert Oonk - 219-221 Book Reviews : WILLIAMSON MURRAY and ALAN R. MILLETT (ed.), Military Innovation in the Interwar Period, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1996, pp. ix + 428, £45
by Kaushik Roy - 222-224 Book Reviews : SUMIT SARKAR, Writing Social History, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. 390, Rs 495
by Rajat Kanta Ray - 224-226 Book Reviews : NANDINI SUNDAR, Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar, 1854-1996, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. 256 Rs 495
by David Baker
March 1998, Volume 35, Issue 1
- 1-22 South Asian demographic archaeology and Harappan population estimates: A brief reassessment
by Nayanjot Lahiri - 23-33 Household size and household structure in western India c. 1700-1950: Beginning an exploration
by Sumit Guha - 35-51 Approach towards birth control: Indian women in the early twentieth century
by Mausumi Manna - 53-68 Short-run variation in vital events in Kerala: The role of economic factors
by K.S. James & S. Irudaya Rajan - 69-95 Understanding pre-transitional fertility in colonial Malabar
by Ravindran Gopinath
December 1997, Volume 34, Issue 4
- 405-435 State, forests and graziers in the hills of Uttar Pradesh: Impact of colonial forestry on peasants, Gujars and Bhotiyas
by Dhirendra Datt Dangwal - 437-463 Capitalism and community: A study of the Madurai Sourashtras
by Tirthankar Roy - 465-498 Bureaucratic agendas and conservation policy in Himachal Pradesh, 1865-1994
by Vasant K. Saberwal - 499-500 Book Reviews : DAVID CHANDLER (General Editor), Ian Beckett (Associate Editor), The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army, Oxford, 1994
by Kaushik Roy - 501-503 Book Reviews : KUMKUM CHATTERJEE, Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India Bihar: 1733-1820, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1996, pp. 273
by Lakshmi Subramanian - 503-505 Book Reviews : GERALDINE FORBES, Women in Modern India, in New Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV, 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 289, price not mentioned; KUMARI JAYAVARDENA and MALATHI DE ALWIS (eds), Embodied Violence: Communalising Women's Sexuality in South Asia, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 299, Rs 325; DAGMAR ENGELS, Beyond Purdah? Women in Bengal 1890-1939, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 282, Rs 450
by Rajat Kanta Ray - 506-507 Book Reviews : WILLIAM R. PINCH, Peasants and Monks in British India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 242, Rs 395
by Seema Alavi - 507-510 Book Reviews : AMIYA P. SEN, Hindu Revivalism in Bengal 1872-1905: Some Essays in Interpretation, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1993, pp. xiii + 456
by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay - 510-513 Book Reviews : M.N. SRINIVAS, Indian Society through Personal Writings, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996. pp. 245, Rs 395. M.N. SRINIVAS, Village, Caste, Gender and Method: Essays in Indian Social Anthropology, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 244, Rs 395
by Ghanshyam Shah - 513-514 Book Reviews : H. YANAGISAWA, A Century of Change: Caste and Irrigated Lands in Tamil Nadu 1860s-1970s, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 337, Rs 450
by Dharma Kumar - 515-516 Short Notices
by N/A
September 1997, Volume 34, Issue 3
- 275-287 Textiles, bullion and other trades of Goa: Commerce with Surat, other areas of India, Luso-Brazilian ports, Macau and Mozambique, 1816-1819
by Rudy Bauss - 289-320 A matter of two shares: A daughter's claim to patrilineal property in rural north India
by Prem Chowdhry - 321-354 Recruitment doctrines of the colonial Indian Army: 1859-1913
by Kaushik Roy - 355-376 Between power and 'purdah': The white woman in British India, 1858-1900
by Indrani Sen - 377-379 Book Reviews : JAN BREMAN, Footloose Labour, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 278 pp
by Tirthankar Roy - 379-379 Book Reviews : SATISH CHANDRA, Historiography, Religion and State in Medieval India, Har Anand Publications, Delhi, 1996, 240 pp., Rs 295
by Shalin Jain - 379-382 Book Reviews : SUSHIL CHAUDHURY, From Prosperity to Decline: Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Manohar, Delhi,1995, 377 pp. , Rs 500
by Lakshmi Subramanian - 382-384 Book Reviews : Jos J.L. GOMMANS, The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, C 1710-1780, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1995, xvii + 219 pp
by Kaushik Roy - 385-387 Book Reviews : MICHAEL H. FISHER, The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, xviii + 368 pp. , Rs 425
by Indrani Chatterjee - 387-389 Book Reviews : JACK GOODY, The East in the West, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 295 pp
by Tirthankar Roy - 389-391 Book Reviews : RICHARD SAUMAREZ SMITH, Rule by Records: Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Panjab, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, Rs 695
by Minoti Chakravarty Kaul