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September 1997, Volume 34, Issue 3
- 391-393 Book Reviews : TESSIE P. LIU, The Weaver's Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750-1914, Cornell Univer sity Press, Ithaca, 1994, xiv + 279 pp., $46.75 (c), $19.75 (pb)
by G. Balachandran - 393-394 Book Reviews : D.A. Low, The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa 1950-1980, Cam bridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, 145 pp
by Dharma Kumar - 394-395 Book Reviews : GEOFFREY A. ODDIE, Popular Religion, Elites and Reform: Hook-Swinging and its Prohibition in Colonial India, 1800-1894, Manohar Publica tions, Delhi, 1995, 210 pp., Rs 300
by Dharma Kumar - 395-397 Book Reviews : DAVID SHULMAN, ed., Syllables of Sky: Studies in South Indian Civilization in Honour of Velcheru Narayana Rao, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, xi + 478 pp., Rs 525
by C.J. Fuller - 397-400 Book Reviews : DILIP SIMEON, The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928-1939, Manohar, Delhi, 1995 , 398 pp. , Rs 450
by Sumit Sarkar - 400-403 Book Reviews : NASIR TYABJI, Colonialism, Chemical Technology and Industry in Southern India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, ix + 242 pp
by Deepak Kumar
June 1997, Volume 34, Issue 2
- 113-168 Revised estimates of the national income of India, 1900-1901 to 1946-47
by S. Sivasubramonian - 169-197 Mughal state formation: The Mewati counter-perspective
by Shail Mayaram - 199-216 A demographic study of Portuguese India and Macau as well as comments on Mozambique and Timor, 1750-1850
by Rudy Bauss - 217-250 The strength of a scientific culture: Interpreting disorder in colonial science
by Satpal Sangwan - 251-252 Book Reviews : S.B. CooK, Imperial Affinities: Nineteenth Century Analogies and Exchanges between India and Ireland, Sage, New Delhi, 1993, 162 pp. , Rs 195
by S. Ambirajan - 253-254 Book Reviews : PETER WARD FAY, The Forgotten Army, India's Armed Struggle for Inde pendence, 1942-45, Rupa, by arrangement with the University of Michigan, New Delhi, 1994, ix + 573 pp., Rs 295
by Kaushik Roy - 254-256 Book Reviews : K.S. MATHEW, ed., Mariners, Merchants and Oceans: Studies in, Maritime History, Manohar, Delhi, 1995, Rs 425
by Lakshmi Subramaniam - 257-258 Book Reviews : SHIREEN MOOSVI, Episodes in the Life of Akbar: Contemporary Records and Reminiscences, National Book Trust, New Delhi, 1994, xv + 133 pp., 9 reproductions, Rs 45
by Tasneem Suhrawardy - 258-260 Book Reviews : RAJAT K. RAY, ed., Mind, Body and Society: Life and Mentality in Colonial Bengal, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1995, 486 pp. , Rs 575
by Swaraj Basu - 260-262 Book Reviews : BRIAN ROBSON, ed., Roberts in India, The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893, Alan Sutton for the Army Records Society, UK, USA, 1993, xxviii + 478 pp., £40
by Kaushik Roy - 262-264 Book Reviews : KUMKUM ROY, Emergence of Monarchy in North India, Eighth-Fourth Centuries BC: As Reflected in the Brahmanical Tradition, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, xii + 344 pp., Rs 450
by Nayanjot Lahiri - 264-266 Book Reviews : YUNUS SAMAD, A Nation in Turmoil, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Pakistan 1937-1958, Sage, Delhi, 1995, 232 pp., Rs 165
by Neera Chandhoke - 267-268 Book Reviews : ANURADHA SENEVIRATNA, ed., King Aśoka and Buddhism: Historical and Literary Studies, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, 1994, xi + 161 pp
by Nayanjot Lahiri - 269-270 Book Reviews : A.R. VENKATACHALAPATHY, ed., Bharatiyin Karutthuppadangal India, 1906-1910, Narmada Pathippakam, Madras, 1994, 209 pp., Rs 50
by S. Ambirajan - 271-272 Letter to the Editor from Professor Dilip Simeon
by Dilip Simeon - 273-274 Reply from Dr Vinay Bahl
by Vinay Bahl
March 1997, Volume 34, Issue 1
- 1-20 Muttahidah qaumiyat in aqalliat Bihar: The Imarat i Shariah, 1921-1947
by Papiya Ghosh - 21-51 The museumised relic: Archaeology and the first museum of colonial India
by Tapati Guha-Thakurta - 53-67 Domesticating the novel: Society and culture in inter-War Tamil Nadu
by A.R. Venkatachalapathy - 69-94 Intransigent shroffs and the English East India Company's currency reforms in Bengal, 1757-1800
by Shubhra Chakrabarti - 95-96 Book Reviews : NIGEL CROOK, India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1993, pp. vi + 181, Rs 240
by Nasir Tyabji - 97-98 Book Reviews : WALTER HAUSER, ed., Swami Sahajanand and the Peasants of Jharkhand: A View from 1941, Manohar, 1995 pp. xxiii + 369. Map, Rs 450
by N/A - 99-101 Book Reviews : C.G. HENNING, The Indentured Indian in Natal (1860-1917), Promilla and Co., New Delhi, 1993, pp. 242, Rs 600
by Rana P. Behal - 101-104 Book Reviews : JEFFREY J. KRIPAL, Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1995, pp. 386
by Rajat Ray - 104-106 Book Reviews : HERMANN KULKE, ed., The State in India, 1000-1700, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995. pp. x + 367, Rs 450
by Chetan Singh - 106-109 Book Reviews : FELIX PADEL The Sacrifice of Human Being: British Rule and the Khonds of Orissa, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 428, Rs 595
by Savyasachi - 109-111 Book Reviews : M. ATCHI REDDY, Lands and Tenants in South India: A Study of Nellore District 1850-1990, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 215, Rs 345
by Sumit Guha
December 1996, Volume 33, Issue 4
- 373-401 The role of the state in initiating development: A study of interwar South and Southeast Asia
by Tirthankar Roy - 403-435 The unwanted pregnancy in colonial Bengal1
by Supriya Guha - 437-457 Information and incentives: Pringle's Ricardian experiment in the nineteenth-century Deccan countryside
by Neeraj Hatekar - 459-479 Crowd vigour and social identity: The Quit India Movement in western India
by Shri Krishan - 481-483 Book Reviews : VASUDHA DALMIA AND HEINRICH VON STIETENCRON, eds, Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious Traditions and National Identity, Sage, New Delhi, 1995, 467 pp., Rs 475/275
by C.J. Fuller - 483-484 Book Reviews : SHARADA DWIVEDI AND RAHUL MEHROTRA, Bombay: The Cities Within, India Book House, Bombay, 1995, 336 pp., Rs 1500
by Narayani Gupta - 484-486 Book Reviews : CHRISTOPHER R. KING, One Language, Two Scripts: The Hindi Movement in Nineteenth-Century North India, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1994, 232 pp. , Rs 375
by Vir Bharat Talwar - 486-486 Book Reviews : A.R. KULKARNI, M.A. NAYEEM AND T.R. DE SOUZA, eds, Mediaeval Deccan History: Commemoration Volume in Honour of P. M. Joshi, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1996, xiii + 316 pp., Rs 500
by Sumit Guha - 486-487 Book Reviews : TIMUR KURAN, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995
by Bhaskar Dutta - 487-488 Book Reviews : B.N. NAIDU, Intellectual History of Colonial India, Mysore 1831-1920, Rawat Publications, Jaipur and New Delhi, 1996, 261 pp., Rs 400
by Dharma Kumar - 488-490 Book Reviews : DOUGLAS M. PEERS, Between Mars and Mammon, Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in India, 1819-1835, Tauris Academic Studies, I.B. Tauris Publishers, London, New York, 1995, xxi + 289 pp., £39.50
by Kaushik Roy - 490-492 Book Reviews : BRUCE CARLISLE ROBERTSON, Raja Rammohan Roy, The Father of Modern India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 210 pp., Rs 295
by Amiya P. Sen - 493-495 Book Reviews : ANAND A. YANG, The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. xii + 271, Rs 185
by Arun Kumar - 495-495 Book Reviews : WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL, (ed), Francis Buchanan in Southeast Bengal (1798), Manohar, 1992, pp. xxx + 209, Rs 300
by Tirthankar Roy
September 1996, Volume 33, Issue 3
- 225-242 Robes of honour: A 'transactional' kingly ceremony
by Stewart Gordon - 243-282 British imperium and forested zones of anomaly in Bengal, 1767-1833
by K. Sivaramakrishnan - 283-307 Multiple meanings: Changing conceptions of matrilineal kinship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malabar
by G. Arunima - 309-343 Making the domestic more domestic: Criminal law and the 'head of the household', 1772-1843
by Radhika Singha - 345-347 Book Reviews : AMITA BAVISKAR, In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 286 pp., Rs. 475
by Nandini Sundar - 347-349 Book Reviews : JOYA CHATTERJI, Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, 303 pp
by Indivar Kamtekar - 349-351 Book Reviews : EUGENE F. IRSCHICK, Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1994
by Haruka Yanagisawa - 351-353 Book Reviews : SHASHI JOSHI, Struggle for Hegemony in India 1920-47. The Colonial State, the Left and the National Movement, Vol. I: 1920-34, Sage, New Delhi, 1992, pp. 376, Rs. 325. BHAGWAN JOSH, Struggle for Hegemony in India. The Colonial State, the Left and the National Movement, Vol. II: 1934-41, Sage, New Delhi, 1992, pp. 331, Rs. 325. SHASHI JOSHI and BHAGWAN JOSH, Struggle for Hegemony in India 1920-47. Culture, Community and Power, Vol. III, Sage, New Delhi, pp. 403, Rs. 375
by Biswamoy Pati - 353-355 Book Reviews : RAVI KALIA, Bhubaneswar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City, Delhi, 1994, pp. xx + 236, Rs. 375
by Narayani Gupta - 355-357 Book Reviews : IAN J. KERR, Building the Railways of the Raj 1850-1900, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 254 pp., Rs. 395
by Dilip Simeon - 357-359 Book Reviews : JOHN KOMLOS, ed., The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History, Boulder, Westview Press, 1995, pp. ix + 225
by Ralph Shlomowitz - 359-360 Book Reviews : DAVID LUDDEN, ed., Agricultural Production and Indian History, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, pp. 382, Rs. 395
by Mahesh Rangarajan - 360-362 Book Reviews : THOMAS R. METCALF, The New Cambridge History of India III, 4. Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, pp. ix + 244
by Meena Radhakrishna - 363-365 Book Reviews : TAZEEN M. MURSHID, The Sacred and the Secular: Bengal Muslim Discourses, 1871-1977, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1995, Rs. 675
by Gopal Krishna - 365-368 Book Reviews : JOHN F. RICHARDS, Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India, Variorum, Hampshire/Vermont, 1993
by Chetan Singh - 368-370 Book Reviews : PETER ROBB, ed., The Concept of Race in South Asia, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. ix + 354, Rs. 395
by Andre Beteille - 370-371 Book Reviews : TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA, ed., Discoveries, Missionary Expansion and Asian Cultures, New Delhi, Concept, 1994
by Suguna Ramanathan
June 1996, Volume 33, Issue 2
- 115-131 Australian gold and the finance of India's exports during World War I : A case study of imperial control and coordination
by Andrew Pope - 133-153 Forest polities and agrarian empires: The Khandesh Bhils,c. 1700-1850
by Sumit Guha - 155-173 English private trade on the Coromandel coast, 1660-1690: Diamonds and country trade
by Søren Mentz - 175-207 Hopes and disillusionment: Recruitment, demobilisation and the emergence of discontent in the Indian armed forces after the Second World War
by Anirudh Deshpande - 209-218 Book Reviews : ASHIN DASGUPTA, Merchants of Maritime India 1500-1800, Variorium, 1994. SINAPPAH ARASARATNAM, Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century, OUP, 1994. OM PRAKASH, Precious Metals and Commerce. The Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean Trade, Variorium, 1994. SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM (ed.), Money and the Market in India 1100-1700, Oxford in India Readings, OUP, 1994
by Lakshmi Subramanian - 219-221 Book Reviews : QEYAMUDDIN AHMAD, The Wahhabi Movement in India. Second Revised Edition, New Delhi, Manohar, 1994
by Richard M. Eaton - 221-223 Book Reviews : SEEMA ALAVI, The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770-1830, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, pp. xvi + 315, Rs. 390
by Michael Fisher - 223-224 Book Reviews : RALPH RUSSELL, Hidden in the Lane: An Anthology of Two Centuries of Urdu Literature, Delhi, Viking, 1995, pp. 312, Rs. 250
by Mushirul Hasan
March 1996, Volume 33, Issue 1
- 1-35 Sanchi: The history of the patronage of an ancient Buddhist establishment
by Upinder Singh - 37-58 Ecology, land use and colonisation: The canal colonies of Punjab
by Indu Agnihotri - 59-68 Famines in Kashmir, 1586-1819: The policy of the Mughal and Afghan rulers
by Mushtaq A. Kaw - 73-91 Marginalisation and appropriation: Jogis, Brahmins and Sidh shrines
by Mahesh Sharma - 93-103 Secularists, subalterns and the stigma of 'communalism': Partition historiography revisited
by Ayesha Jalal - 105-106 Book Reviews : SHAHID AMIN, Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, pp. 244 plus bibliography, index
by Majid Siddiqi - 106-108 Book Reviews : BRAJADULAL CHATROPADHYAYA, The Making of Early Medieval India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1994
by Richard M. Eaton - 108-111 Book Reviews : FATIMA DA SILVA GRACIAS, Health and Hygiene in Colonial Goa (1510-1961), Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1994, pp. 300, Rs. 450
by Mariam Dossal - 111-112 Book Reviews : ARUN MUKHERJEE, Crime and Public Disorder in Colonial Bengal 1861-1912, K.P. Bagchi and Co., Calcutta, pp. 320, Rs. 250
by Joya Chatterji - 113-113 Book Reviews : G. THIMMAIAH, Power Politics and Social Justice: Backward Castes in Karnataka, Sage Publications, 1993, pp. 203, Rs. 225
by Dharma Kumar
December 1995, Volume 32, Issue 4
- 413-427 The Islamic state as telos: Mumtaz Shah Nawaz's narrative of Pakistan and modernity
by David Willmer - 429-446 Peasant mobilisation, political organisations and modes of interaction: The Bombay countryside 1934-1941
by Shri Krishan - 447-473 Opium enterprise and colonial intervention in Malwa and western India, 1800-1824
by Amar Farooqui - 475-487 The persecution of Ramanuja: A view from the Srirangam temple complex
by A. Srivathsan - 489-490 Book Reviews : DAVID ARNOLD and RAMACHANDRA GUHA, eds., Nature, Culture and Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 376 pp., Rs 495
by Mahesh Rangarajan - 491-493 Book Reviews : SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM (ed.), Money and the Market in India 1100-1700, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, Rs 300
by H.W. van Santen - 493-495 Book Reviews : HIMANSHU P. RAY, The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia, OUP, Delhi, 1994, x + 234 pp., Rs 350
by Upinder Singh - 495-496 Book Reviews : J.E. LLEWELLYN, The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement: A Study in Comparative Fundamentalism, Manohar, New Delhi, 1993, xii + 288 pp., Rs 350
by T.N. Madan - 497-499 Book Reviews : RAJNARAYAN CHANDAVARKAR, The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940, Foundation Books, New Delhi, 1994, xviii + 468 pp., Rs 450
by Douglas E. Haynes
September 1995, Volume 32, Issue 3
- 287-325 The killing of Bala Shah and the birth of Valmiki: Hinduisation and the politics of religion
by Vijay Prashad - 327-343 Old wine in new bottles? Kartabhaja (Vaishnava) converts to Evangelical Christianity in Bengal, 1835-1845
by Geoffrey A. Oddie - 345-374 The dreaded Danteswari: Annals of alleged sacrifice
by Nandini Sundar - 375-390 The Reang rebellion in Tripura, 1943-45 and the birth of an ethnic identity
by Harihar Bhattacharyya - 391-392 Book Reviews : MiR AMMAN, A Tale of Four Dervishes, translated from Urdu with an introduction by Mohammed Zakir, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 1994, xvi + 158 pp., Rs 100
by Mushirul Hasan - 392-394 Book Reviews : DAVID ARNOLD and DAVID HARDIMAN, eds., Subaltern Studies VIII: Essays in honour of Ranajit Guha, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, ix + 240 pp. , Rs 340
by Dilip M. Menon - 394-396 Book Reviews : PREM CHOWDHRY, The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana 1880-1990, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, 461 pp., Rs 475
by G. Arunima - 396-398 Book Reviews : JOHN CROOK and HENRY OSMASTON, eds, Himalayan Buddhist Villages. Environment, Resources, Society and Religious Life in Zangskar, Ladakh, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, 1994, xxx + 866 pp., 115 illustrations, Rs 800
by Janet Rizvi - 398-399 Book Reviews : KAMALA GANESH, Boundary Walls: Caste and Women in a Tamil Com munity, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Delhi, 1993, xvi + 182 pp
by C.J. Fuller - 399-402 Book Reviews : MARK HARRISON, Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914, Cambridge History of Medicine Series, Cam bridge University Press, 1994, xix + 324 pp., £19.95. DAVID ARNOLD, Colonising the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1993, xii + 354 pp. , Rs 390
by V.R. Muraleedharan - 402-404 Book Reviews : JOHN HALDON, The State and the Tributary Mode of Production, Verso, London and New York, 1993, x + 339 pp
by Harbans Mukhia - 404-406 Book Reviews : MARK JUERGENSMEYER, Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, xiv + 292, pp. index and biblio, Rs 300
by Dipankar Gupta - 406-407 Book Reviews : DILIP M. MENON, Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India. Malabar, 1900-1948, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, 209 pp., Rs 295
by Robin Jeffrey - 407-409 Book Reviews : UPINDER SINGH, Kings, Brahmanas and Temples in Orissa. An Epigraphic Study AD 300-1147, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd, Delhi, 1994, 370 pp., Rs 300
by Nayanjot Lahiri - 410-411 Book Reviews : SUSAN VISHVANATHAN, The Christians of Kerala, Oxford University Press, Madras, 1993
by Suguna Ramanathan
June 1995, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 135-153 Honour in chains: The problem of hitti-bitti-chakri in jamma tenure in Coorg, 1800-1930
by T.P. Vijaya - 155-176 Constructing a plantation labour force: The plantation-village nexus in south India
by Barbara Evans - 177-217 The politics of fiscal decline: A reconsideration of Maratha Tanjavur, 1676-1799
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 219-244 India's history revealed in a dream
by Bhudev Mukhopadhyay - 245-269 A permanent settlement for the Ceded and Conquered provinces: Revenue administration in north India, 1801-1833
by Michael Mann - 271-273 Book Reviews : IQBAL HUSAIN, The Rise and Decline of the Ruhela Chieftaincies in 18th Century India, Oxford University Press, 1995, 253 pp., Rs 250
by Seema Alavi - 273-274 Book Reviews : AJIT K. DASGUPTA, A History of Indian Economic Thought, Routledge, London and New York, 1993, xii + 206 pp., Rs 400
by S. Ambirajan - 274-276 Book Reviews : CLIVE DEWEY, Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Civil Service, Hambledon Press, London, 1993, xxvi + 292 pp., price not stated
by Ramachandra Guha - 276-278 Book Reviews : ROSALIND O'HANLON, A Comparison between Women and Men: Tarabai Shinde and the Critique of Gender Relations in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, Madras, 1994, 147 pp. , Rs 200
by Meera Kosambi - 279-280 Book Reviews : MINTURN LEIGH, Sita's Daughters: Coming Out of Purdah, Oxford Univer sity Press, New York, 1993, 371 pp., price not stated (special Indian price Rs 395)
by Meera Kosambi - 280-284 Book Reviews : GYAN PRAKASH, Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, xvi + 250 pp., Cambridge South Asian Studies No. 44
by Jacques Pouchepadass - 284-285 Book Reviews : WALTER HAUSER, ed., Sahajanand on Agricultural Labour and the Rural Poor, Manohar Publications, Delhi, 1994, xviii + 239 pp
by Majid H. Siddiqi
March 1995, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 1-21 British steamshipping and the Indian coastal trade, 1870-1915
by Andrew Pope - 23-49 Public sector investment and technology choice in the transportation industry in Madras
by Nasir Tyabji - 51-93 Migration in eastern India: A segmented labour market
by Arjan de Haan - 95-117 Bhadralok perceptions of science, technology and cultural nationalism
by Dhruv Raina & S. Irfan Habib - 119-121 Book Reviews : JOHN R. McLANE, Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Cambridge University Press, 1993
by Radhika Singha - 121-123 Book Reviews : HARJOT OBEROI, The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition. Delhi, 1994, xxii + 494 pp., Rs 475
by T.N. Madan - 123-125 Book Reviews : BISWAMOY PATI, Resisting Domination: Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement in Orissa 1920-50, Manohar 1993
by Rohan D'Souza - 125-128 Book Reviews : VELCHERU NARAYANA RAO, DAVID SHULMAN, SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1992. NOBORU KARASHIMA, Towards a New Formation: South Indian Society under Vijayanagara Rule, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1992
by Dilip M. Menon - 129-130 Book Reviews : VEENA SACHDEVA, Polity and Economy of the Punjab during the Late- Eighteenth Century, Manohar, 1993, xi + 229 pp., Rs 200
by Meena Bhargava - 130-131 Book Reviews : MANISHA ROY, Bengali Women, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992, 213 pp
by Mukul Mukherjee - 131-132 Book Reviews : CHITRA SIVA KUMAR and S. SIVA KUMAR, Peasants and Nabobs: Agrarian Radicalism in Late Eighteenth Century Tamil Country, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Delhi, 1993, xii + 110 pp
by M. Atchi Reddy
December 1994, Volume 31, Issue 4
- 413-460 The emergence of large-scale steel industry in India under British colonial rule, 1880-1907
by Vinay Bahl - 461-490 Foreign trade and the artisans in colonial India: A study of leather
by Tirthankar Roy - 491-518 Imperialism, ecology and disease: Cholera in India, 1850-1950
by Ira Klein - 519-524 Theatre state or box office state? A note on the political economy of eighteenth century India
by Sumit Guha - 525-526 Book Reviews : CATHERINE B. ASHER, The New Cambridge History of India, I: 4, Architec ture of Mughal India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, xxxi + 368 pp. Illustrations: 226 Black and White Plates; Bibliogra phical essay
by Nuzhat Kazmi - 526-529 Book Reviews : MILO CLEVELAND BEACH, The New Cambridge History of India, I: 3, Mughal and Rajput Painting, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, xxxi + 252 pp. Illustrations: 179 Black and White Plates; 16 Colour Plates; Bibliographical essay
by Nuzhat Kazmi - 529-530 Book Reviews : SURENDRA BHANA, Indentured Indian Emigrants to Natal, 1860-1902: A Study Based on Ships' Lists, Promilla & Co., New Delhi, 1991
by Rana P. Behal - 531-533 Book Reviews : SUGATA BOSE, Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital. Rural Bengal since 1770 (The New Cambridge History of India), Foundation Books, Delhi, 1993, xvi + 203 pp., Rs 275
by Tirthankar Roy - 533-534 Book Reviews : V.D. DIVEKAR, South India in 1857: War of Independence, Lokamanya Tilak Smarak Trust, Pune, 1993, xv + 412 pp., Rs 300
by D. Veeraraghavan - 534-535 Book Reviews : FREDERICK S. DOWNS, North East India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: History of Christianity in India, Vol. V, Part V, CHAI, Bangalore, 1992
by Susan Visvanathan - 535-538 Book Reviews : MUSHIRUL HASAN AND NARAYANI GUPTA, eds, India's Colonial Encounter: Essays in Memory of Eric Stokes, Manohar, Delhi, 1993, 412 pp
by Douglas E. Haynes - 538-539 Book Reviews : T.S. MAXWELL, ed., Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 1992, 252 + xii pp., plates 80, Rs 415
by Himanshu Prabha Ray - 540-541 ADRIAN SEVER, Nepal under the Ranas, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi, 1993, x + 506 pp., Rs 950
by Pratyoush R. Onta
September 1994, Volume 31, Issue 3
- 261-289 Political intermediaries in Kakatiya Andhra, 1175-1325
by Cynthia Talbot - 291-310 Reordering the earth: The emergence of geology as a scientific discipline in colonial India
by Satpal Sangwan - 311-348 The East India Company's 'suppression of the native dak'
by Michael H. Fisher - 349-391 From alienation to integration: Changes in the politics of caste in Bengal, 1937-47
by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay - 393-394 Book Reviews : BASUDEV CHATTERJI, Trade, Tariffs, and Empire: Lancashire and British Policy in India, 1919-1939, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992, xiv + 521 pp., Rs. 490
by G. Balachandran - 394-396 Book Reviews : TAPATI CUHA-THAKURTA, The Making of a New 'Indian' Art. Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal c. 1850-1920, Cambridge Uni versity Press, Cambridge, 1992, 352 pp., 96 Illustrations, Rs. 595
by Samita Gupta - 396-397 Book Reviews : ALF HILTEBEITEL, ed., Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism, Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1990, xii + 491 pp. + Index, Rs. 400
by T.N. Madan - 397-398 Book Reviews : S.R.B. LEADBEATER, The Politics of Textiles: The Indian Cotton-Mill Industry and the Legacy of Swadeshi, 1900-1985, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1993, 312 pp., Rs. 285
by Tirthankar Roy - 399-400 Book Reviews : R.S. McGREGOR, ed., Devotional Literature in South Asia. Current Research, 1985-1988 (Papers of the Fourth Conference on Devotional Liter ature in New Indo-Aryan Languages, held at Wolfson College, Cam bridge,1-4 September 1988),Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, xvi + 322 pp
by Timothy Raeside - 400-402 Book Reviews : PARSHOTAM MEHRA, An 'Agreed' Frontier: Ladakh and India's Northern- most Borders, 1846-1947, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1992, xii + 248 pp., Rs. 300
by Janet Rizvi - 402-404 Book Reviews : GEOFFREY A. ODDIE, Hindu and Christian in South-east India (London Studies on South Asia No. 6), Curzon Press, London, 1991, x + 280 pp
by C.J. Fuller - 404-405 Book Reviews : DIETMAR ROTHERMUND, India in the Great Depression, 1929-1939, Manohar Publications, Delhi, 1992; xiii + 292 pp., Rs. 300
by G. Balachandran - 405-407 Book Reviews : SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History, Longman, London and New York, 1993, xiii + 320 pp., glossary, bibliography, index, maps
by Anthony Disney - 408-410 Book Reviews : ELEANOR ZELLIOT, From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1992, 350 pp., Rs. 320
by P. Radhakrishnan
June 1994, Volume 31, Issue 2
- 117-145 West Africa and the Pondicherry textile industry
by Richard Roberts - 147-167 Imperial agendas and India's forests: The early history of Indian forestry, 1800-1878
by Mahesh Rangarajan - 169-215 The demography of the Bengal famine of 1943-44: A detailed study
by Arup Maharatna - 217-237 Peasant class assertions in Nalgonda and Warangal districts of Telangana, 1930-1946
by I. Thirumali - 239-241 Book Reviews : INDU BANGA, ed., Ports and Their Hinterlands in India 1700-1950, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 1992
by Ruchira Banerjee - 241-243 Book Reviews : V. BEGLEY and R.D. DE PUMA, eds., Rome and India—The Ancient Sea Trade, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992, 266 + xix pp., Rs. 800
by Himanshu Prabha Ray - 243-244 Book Reviews : PAUL R. BRASS, Ethnicity and Nationalism (Theory and Comparison), Sage, 1991, 358 pp., Rs. 280
by Bishnu N. Mohapatra - 244-246 Book Reviews : VASUDHA DHAGAMWAR, Law, Power and Justice: The Protection of Per sonal Rights in the Indian Penal Code, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1992, 392 pp., Rs. 150
by Indrani Chatterjee - 247-249 Book Reviews : JEAN DRÈZE and AMARTYA SEN, eds., The Political Economy of Hunger, Volume 3, 1991, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 385 pp., Rs. 400
by Arup Mitra - 249-251 Book Reviews : NAIMUR RAHMAN FAROOQI, Mughal-Ottoman Relations: A Study of the Political and Diplomatic Relations between Mughal India and the Ottoman Empire, 1556-1748, Delhi, Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1989, xii + 264 pp., Rs. 175
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 251-252 Book Reviews : JOHN FFORDE, The Bank of England and Public Policy 1941-1958, Cam bridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, xx + 861 pp
by G. Balachandran - 252-254 Book Reviews : JAMES F. FISHER, Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1990, xxv + 205 pp., Rs. 275
by Pratyoush R. Onta - 254-257 Book Reviews : DOUGLAS HAYNES and GYAN PRAKASH, eds., Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1991, 307 pp
by Rana P. Behal - 257-259 Book Reviews : B.R. TOMLINSON, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970, Cambridge University Press, Foundation Books, New Delhi, 1993,235 pp., Rs. 325
by Tirthankar Roy
March 1994, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 1-26 The 'discovery' of malnutrition and diet in colonial India
by David Arnold - 27-64 The trans-Karakoram trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
by Janet Rizvi - 65-88 The western Indian Ocean and the early maritime links of the Indian subcontinent
by Himanshu Prabha Ray - 89-100 The social role of a caste association
by Sibsankar Mukherjee - 101-103 Book Reviews : ARUN BANDOPADHYAY, The Agrarian Economy of Tamil Nadu, 1820-1855, K.P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1992, Rs. 250
by G.N. Rao - 103-104 Book Reviews : P.K. BARDHAN ed., Conversations Between Economists and Anthropo logists : Methodological Issues in Measuring Economic Change in Rural India, Delhi, OUP, 1989
by Jean Drèze - 105-107 Book Reviews : SUDHIR CHANDRA, The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Conscious ness in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, 1992
by Meenakshi Mukherjee - 107-108 Book Reviews : BASUDEB CHATTOPADHYAY, HARI S. VASUDEVAN and RAJAT KANTA RAY eds. , Dissent and Consensus: Social Protest in Pre-Industrial Societies, K.P. Bagchi & Co., Calcutta, 1989, 299 pp., Rs. 180
by Partho Datta - 108-110 Book Reviews : NICHOLAS B. DIRKS, The Hollow Crown, Ethnohistory of an Indian King dom,1987, CUP. 406 pp. plus appendix
by Majid H. Siddiqi - 110-111 Book Reviews : THOMAS PANTHAM and KENNETH L. DEUTSCH eds., Political Thought in Modern India, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1986, pp. 362, Rs. 175
by Gurpreet Mahajan - 112-113 Book Reviews : M.S.S. PANDIAN, The Image Trap: M.G. Ramachandran in Film and Politics, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1992, 166 pp. , Rs. 190 (hb), Rs. 85 (pb)
by Ravi Vasudevan - 114-115 Book Reviews : H. VAN WERSCH, Bombay Textile Strike 1982-83, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1992, xxiv + 463, Rs. 450
by Tirthankar Roy
December 1993, Volume 30, Issue 4
- 383-411 Idioms of authority and engendered agendas: The Satnami Mahasabha, , Chhattisgarh, 1925-1950
by Saurabh Dube - 413-436 England and India: The Ilbert Bill, 1883: A case study of the metropolitan press
by Chandrika Kaul - 437-466 The makings of Company power: James Skinner in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces, 1802-1840
by Seema Alavi - 467-488 The 1947 united Bengal movement: A thesis without a synthesis
by Bidyut Chakrabarty - 489-491 Book Reviews : DAVID N. GELLNER, Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest, Newar Bud dhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual, Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 428 pp
by Veronique Bouillier - 491-493 Book Reviews : OMKAR GOSWAMI, Industry, Trade, and Peasant Society: The Jute Economy of Eastern India, 1900-1947, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991, xxi + 283 pp., Rs. 225
by Morris David Morris - 493-495 Book Reviews : DONALD F. MILLER, The Reason of Metaphor: A Study in Politics, Sage, New Delhi, 1992, 268 pp., Rs. 250
by Rabindra Ray - 495-496 Book Reviews : HELENA NORBERG-HODGE, Ancient Futures—Learning from Ladakh, Oxford University Press, 1992, Rs. 150
by Janet Rizvi - 496-498 Book Reviews : GEORGE ROSEN, Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992, xiii + 168 pp
by Tirthankar Roy - 498-502 Book Reviews : ANDRÉ WINK, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Vol. I, Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam (7th-11th Centuries), E.J. Brill and OUP, Leiden and New Delhi, 1990, 396 pp.., Rs. 300
by B.D. Chattopadhyaya
September 1993, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 261-281 Production regimes, cultural processes: Industrial labour in Mysore
by Janaki Nair - 283-310 Collaboration and conflict: Bankers and early colonial rule in India: 1757-1813
by Kumkum Chatterjee - 311-335 The great TISCO strike and lockout of 1928, Part 2: The enigmatic settlement and its aftermath
by Dilip Simeon - 337-372 The 1837-38 famine in U.P.: Some dimensions of popular action
by Sanjay Sharma - 373-375 Book Reviews : J.S. GREWAL, The New Cambridge History of India, II. 3, The Sikhs of the Punjab, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, XXV + 264 pp
by Andrew J. Major - 375-376 Book Reviews : ROSIE LLEWELLYN JONES, A Very Ingenious Man: Claude Martin in Early Colonial India, OUP, Delhi, 1992, 241 pp. , Rs. 325
by Seema Alavi