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September 1989, Volume 26, Issue 3
- 368-372 Reply
by Irfan Habib - 373-374 Book Reviews : B.P. BARUA ed., Raja Rammohun Roy and the New Learning, Orient Longmans, New Delhi, 1988, pp. 123, Rs. 110
by Indrani Chatterjee - 374-376 Book Reviews : V.N. DUTTA, Sati, Widow Burning in India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1988, pp. 277, Rs. 188
by Aparna Basu - 376-377 Book Reviews : AHSAN JAN QAISAR, Building Construction in Mughal India: The Evidence from Painting, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1988, pp. 43, 3 appendices, end notes, 22 plates, Rs. 150
by Sunil Kumar - 377-379 Book Reviews : MARTIN RAVALLION, Markets and Famines, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987, pp. 203, Rs. 150
by B. Gopalakrishna Kumar - 380-385 Book Reviews : D. WESUMPERUMA, Indian Immigrant Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka: A Historical Perspective, 1880-1910, Vidyalankara Press, Kelaniya
by Michael Roberts
June 1989, Volume 26, Issue 2
- 131-166 Madras handlooms in the nineteenth century
by Konrad Specker - 167-201 The population history of Berar since 1881 and its potential wider significance
by Tim Dyson - 203-233 Warfare and state finance in Wodeyar Mysore, 1724-25: A missionary perspective
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 235-257 Arumuka Navalar: Religious reformer or national leader of Eelam
by Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam - 259-260 Book Reviews : MEERA ABRAHAM, Two Medieval Merchant Guilds of South India, South Asian Studies, No. XVIII, Manohar, New Delhi, 1988, pp. xii + 273, Rs. 200
by Himanshu P. Ray - 261-263 Book Reviews : UMA CHAKRAVARTI, The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987
by Romila Thapar - 263-264 Book Reviews : S. MUTHIAH ed., A Social and Economic Atlas of India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987
by Saroj K. Pal - 264-265 Book Reviews : O.P. KEJARIWAL, The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India's Past, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1988, pp. xvi + 293
by Arthur Charles Staples - 266-267 Book Reviews : J.F. RICHARDS, Document Forms for Official Orders of Appointment in the Mughal Empire: Translation, Notes and Text, E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series, New Series, XXIX, Cambridge, 1986, pp. 78 + photocopies of 50 manuscript pages
by Muzaffar Alam
March 1989, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 1-28 Sailors and the crowd: popular protest in Karachi, 1946
by Anirudh Deshpande - 29-59 Labour, capital, and the Congress: Delhi Cloth Mills, 1928-38
by Nita Kumar - 61-79 Memoirs of William Prinsep: Calcutta years, 1817-1842
by A.C. Staples - 81-99 Aspects of women and work in early South India
by Vijaya Ramaswamy - 101-110 Coromandel revisited: problems and issues in Indian maritime history
by S. Arasaratnam - 111-112 Book Reviews : SERGIO AIOLFI, Calicos und gedrucktes Zeug. Die Entwicklung der englischen Textilveredelung und der Tuchhandel der East India Company, 1650-1750, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1987, 441 pp
by Dietmar Rotermund - 113-114 Book Reviews : SATISH CHANDRA ed., The Indian Ocean: Explorations in History, Commerce and Politics, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1987, 334 pp. , Rs. 190
by OM Prakash - 114-117 Book Reviews : BERNARD S. COHN, An Anthropologist Among Historians and Other Essays, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1987, xxvi + 682pp., Rs. 295
by Rashmi Pant - 117-119 Book Reviews : CLIVE DEWEY ed., Arrested Development in India: The Historical Dimension, New Delhi, Manohar, 1988, Rs. 250
by Sumit Guha - 119-121 Book Reviews : N. VIJAY JAGANNATHAN, Informal Markets in Developing Countries, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1987, viii + 139 pp
by Kaushik Basu - 121-123 Book Reviews : XINRU LIU, Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges A.D. 1-600, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1988. xxi + 231 pp. 7 figs., 7 maps (price not stated)
by Shereen Ratnagar - 123-124 Book Reviews : TORU MATSUI, British Rule and Indian Society: A North Indian District in the First Half of the 19th Century, Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 1987, 405 pp. (in Japanese)
by Koi Wakimura - 124-125 Book Reviews : DAVID C. POTTER, India's Political Administrators, 1919-1983, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986, 289 pp., Rs 190
by Ramaswamy R. Iyer - 126-127 Book Reviews : SATINDER SINGH BAWA ed., The Letters of the First Viscount Hardinge of Lahore to Lady Hardinge and Sir Walter and Lady James: 1844-1847, Camden Society Fourth Series, Volume 32, London, The Royal Historical Society, 1986
by Sumit Guha - 127-129 Book Reviews : KRISHNA MOHAN SHRIMALI, Agrarian Structure in Central India and the Northern Deccan (c.A.D. 300-500). A Study of VÄ kÄ taka Inscriptions, New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1987, 134 pp., 7 appendices, 5 maps. Price Rs. 110
by Aloka Parasher
December 1988, Volume 25, Issue 4
- 399-399 Note from the Editor
by Dharma Kumar - 401-424 Portfolio capitalists and the political economy of early modern India
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam & C.A. Bayly - 425-442 Burhanpur: entrepot and hinterland, 1650-1750
by Stewart Gordon - 443-473 The state and the rural grain market in eighteenth century eastern Rajasthan
by Madhavi Bajekal - 475-491 On coinage in Mughal India
by Om Prakash - 493-519 Agrarian commercialism in eighteenth century south India: evidence from the 1823 Tirunelveli census
by David Ludden - 521-523 Book Reviews : MUZAFFAR ALAM, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India. Awadh and the Punjab, 1707-48, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986, Rs. 175
by C.A. Bayly - 523-527 Book Reviews : C.A. BAYLY, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (The New Cambridge History of India, II,1), Cambridge, Cambridge Uni versity Press, 1988, xi + 230pp., 5 maps, glossary, price not stated
by Chetan Singh - 527-531 Book Reviews : ANDRE WINK, Land and Sovereignty in India—Agrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth Century Maratha Svarajya, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986, xviii + 417pp., £27.50 (Rupee price not stated)
by Irfan Habib
September 1988, Volume 25, Issue 3
- 263-318 The bazaar: changing structural characteristics of the indigenous section of the Indian economy before and after the Great Depression
by Rajat Kanta Ray - 319-340 Conformity and conflict: tribes and the 'agrarian system' of Mughal India
by Chetan Singh - 341-370 The institution of marriage and position of women in eighteenth century Maharashtra
by V.S. Kadam - 371-384 Industrialisation before industrialisation? rural industries in Europe and the genesis of capitalism
by Hans Medick - 385-387 Book Reviews : LAWRENCE A. BABB, Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu Tradition, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1987, xiv+257 pp., Rs. 190
by C.J. Fuller - 387-387 Book Reviews : ELEANOR HARTMANN and IAN MONTAGNES, eds., The Thesis and the Book, New Delhi, Vistaar Publications, 1987, 59 pp., Rs. 35
by Dharma Kumar - 387-389 Book Reviews : EUGENE F. IRSCHICK, Tamil Revivalism in the 1930s, Madras, 1986, 372 pp., Rs. 160
by D. Veeraraghavan - 389-391 Book Reviews : S.C. MALIK ed., Determinants of Social Status in India, Simla, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1986, xi+191 pp., Rs. 120
by Uma Chakravarti - 391-394 Book Reviews : CLAUDE MARKOVITZ, Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1937-39: The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 230. pp
by Rajat KantaRay - 394-394 Book Reviews : I. RAESIDE (transl.), The Decade of Panipat (1751-61): Marathi Historical Papers and Chronicles, Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1984, 175 pp
by André Wink - 395-396 Book Reviews : D. ROTHERMUND, The German Intellectual Quest for India, New Delhi, Manohar, 1986, 63 pp
by André Wink - 396-398 Book Reviews : S.J. TAMBIAH, Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986, xi+198 pp
by S. Arasaratnam
June 1988, Volume 25, Issue 2
- 113-132 Becoming a diarist: Amar Singh's construction of an Indian personal document
by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph & Lloyd I. Rudolph - 133-169 The delay in the formation of the Reserve Bank of India: the India Office Perspective
by Rajul Mathur - 171-204 The communalisation of class struggle: East Bengal peasantry, 1923-29
by Tajul-Islam Hashmi - 205-235 Bihar, the colonial state and agricultural development in India, 1880-1920
by Peter Robb - 237-247 Review Article
by N/A - 249-251 Book Reviews : AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI, The Evolution of the State Bank of India (The Roots 1806-1876), Part I: The Early Years, 1806-1860, pp. 535; Part II: Diversity and Regrouping, 1860-1876, pp. 515; Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1987, Rs. 300 (2 volume set of Parts I and II)
by Anand Chandavarkar - 251-253 Book Reviews : DAVID HARDIMAN, The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987, pp. xii + 248, Rs. 140
by C.J. Fuller - 253-257 Book Reviews : AYESHA JALAL, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and tne Demand for Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985, pp. 310, £ 15
by Mushirul Hasan - 257-258 Book Reviews : GERALD M. MEIER and DUDLEY SEERS, eds., Pioneers in Development, published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press, New York, 1984, pp. x + 372
by Suresh D. Tendulkar - 258-260 Book Reviews : UTSA PATNAIK and MANJARI DINGWANEY, Chains of Servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India, Sangam Books, Madras, 1985, 377 pp, Rs. 110
by Dharma Kumar - 260-261 Book Reviews : ATIUR RAHMAN, Peasants and Classes, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp.1 XLVI + 295, Rs. 140
by N. Krishnaji - 261-262 Book Reviews : HENRY SCHOLBERG, Encyclopedias of India, Promilla, New Delhi, 1986, pp. ix + 109
by B.S. Kesavan
March 1988, Volume 25, Issue 1
- 1-24 Size and structure of handloom weaving in the mid-thirties
by Tirthankar Roy - 25-60 Canal irrigation and agrarian change in colonial Andhra: a study of Godavari district, c.1850-1890
by G.N. Rao - 61-77 The useful and the ornamental: architecture in India in the last two centuries
by Narayani Gupta - 79-96 Henry Conybeare and the politics of centralised water supply in mid-nineteenth century Bombay
by Mariam Dossal - 97-100 Book Reviews : S.BHATTACHARYA and R. THAPAR eds., Situating Indian History, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp. 463
by André Wink - 100-101 Book Reviews : LEELA DUBE, ELEANOR LEACOCK and SHIRLEY ARDENER eds., Visibility and Power: Essays on Women in Society and Development, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp. i + 361, Rs. 180
by Mukul Mukherjee - 101-103 Book Reviews : ALAIN DE JANVRY and K. SUBBARAO, Agricultural Price Policy and Income Distribution in India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp. 113, Rs. 75
by Kirit S. Parikh - 103-107 Book Reviews : SHIREEN MOOSVI, The Economy of the Mughal Empire, c. 1595: A Statistical Study, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987, pp. xi + 442, Rs. 195
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 107-109 Book Reviews : K.S. SINGH, Tribal Society in India: An Anthropo-historical Perspective, Manohar, New Delhi, 1985, Rs. 175
by Arvind N. Das - 109-111 Book Reviews : ERIC STOKES, The Peasant Armed. The Indian Rebellion of 1857, edited by C.A. Bayly, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986, pp. 261
by Majid Hayat Siddiqi
December 1987, Volume 24, Issue 4
- 349-366 The Jewish diaspora in India: eighth to thirteenth centuries
by André Wink - 367-393 The forgotten sector: services in Madras Presidency in the first half of the nineteenth century
by Dharma Kumar - 395-409 A dominant class in upheaval: the zamindars of a North Indian region in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
by R.P. Rana - 411-421 The share of mansabdars in state revenue resources: a study of the maintenance of animals
by K.K. Trivedi - 423-430 Land transactions as seen in the DrÄ kshÄ rÄ ma inscriptions
by M. Krishna Kumari - 431-432 Book Reviews : JAN BREMAN, Control of Land and Labour in Colonial Java: A Case Study of Agrarian Crisis and Reform in the Region of Cirebon During the First Decades of the 20th Century, Foris Publications, Holland/USA, 1983, pp. xii + 159
by OM Prakash - 432-434 Book Reviews : CARL BRIDGE, Holding India to the Empire: The British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution, Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1986, pp. xii + 210 + bibliography. Asian Studies Association of Australia: South Asian Publications Series, no. 1
by Partha Saratm Gupta - 434-435 Book Reviews : UMA CHAKRAVARTI and NANDITA HAKSAR, The Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation, Lancer International, New Delhi, 1987, pp. 662, Rs. 300
by Gurpreet Mahajan - 436-437 Book Reviews : EDWARD DUYKER, Tribal Guerillas: The Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite Movement, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987, pp. xvii + 201, Rs. 120
by Suranjan Sinha - 437-439 Book Reviews : R.E. FRYKENBERG ed., Delhi Through the Ages: Essays in Urban History, Culture and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp. xli + 524, Rs. 230
by Shahid Amin - 440-440 Book Reviews : S.S. JHA, Structure of Urban Poverty: The Case of Bombay Slums, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1986
by Arup Mitra - 441-441 Book Reviews : SITAKANT MAHAPATRA, Modernization and Ritual: Identity and Change in Santal Society, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1986, pp. ix + 170, Rs. 170
by Christopher Lakra - 442-443 Book Reviews : A. MADDISON, Two Crises: Latin America and Asia, 1929-38 and 1973-83, O.E.C.D., Paris, 1985, pp. 105
by Manmohan Lal Aggarwal - 443-447 Book Reviews : HIMANSHU P. RAY, Monastery and Guild: Commerce under the Satovahonas, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1986, pp. xi + 258, Rs. 150
by Ranabir Chakravarti - 447-448 Book Reviews : J. VAN GooR ed., Trading Companies in Asia, 1600-1830, Utrecht Hes Uitgevers, 1986, pp. 167, 29.50 guilders
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
September 1987, Volume 24, Issue 3
- 233-263 Bluff, doubt and fear: The Kheiri brothers and the colonial state, 1904-45
by Majid Hayat Siddiqi - 265-289 Notes on the sixteenth century Bengal trade
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 291-322 The land market in upland Maharashtra c.1820-1960-II
by Sumit Guha - 323-334 Rural health care in Madras Pres idency : 1919-39
by V.R. Muraleedharan - 335-336 Book Reviews : HENRY BERNSTEIN and BONNIE K. CAMPBELL eds., Contradictions of Accumulation in Africa : Studies in Economy and State. Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, Inc., 1985, 312 pp., $29.95
by Anirudha Gupta - 336-339 Book Reviews : PARTHA CHATTERJEE, Bengal 1920-1947: The Land Question. Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi and Co., 1984, 276 pp., Rs. 100 and RAJAT KANTA RAY, Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875-1927. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 398 pp., Rs. 170
by Sugata Bose - 339-341 Book Reviews : K. N. CHAUDHURI, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean, An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 283 pp., £8.95
by OM Prakash - 341-342 Book Reviews : LOUIS DUMONT, A South Indian Subcaste: Social Organization and Religion of the Pramalai Kallar. Translated from the French by M. Moffatt, and L. and A. Morton. Edited with an Introduction by M. Moffatt, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986, 524 pp., Rs. 180
by Andre Beteille - 342-344 Book Reviews : NIKHILES GUHA, Pre-British State System in South India: Mysore 1761-1799, Calcutta, Ratna Prakashan, 1985, 238 pp. + Glossary, Bibliography, Appendices, Index. Rs. 125
by David Ludden - 344-345 Book Reviews : R. SOMA REDDY, Hindu and Muslim Religious Institutions-Andhra Desa, 1300-1600, Madras, New Era Publications, 1984, 253 pp. , Rs. 110
by Vijaya Ramaswamy - 346-346 Book Reviews : DWUENDRA TREPATHI ed., Business Communities of India: A Historical Perspective, New Delhi, Manohar, 1985, 304 pp
by S. Bhattacharya - 346-348 Book Reviews : ANANDA WOOD, Knowledge Before Printing and After, The Indian Tradition in Changing Kerala. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985. 199 pp., Rs. 120
by Aparna Basu
June 1987, Volume 24, Issue 2
- 117-144 The land market in upland Maharashtra c. 1820-1960-I
by Sumit Guha - 145-162 The cognitive status of caste in colonial ethnography: A review of some literature on the NorthWest Provinces and Oudh
by Rashmi Pant - 163-181 Muslim women and the control of property in North India
by Gregory C. Kozlowski - 183-203 Parsis in the commercial world of western India, 1700-1750
by David L. White - 205-213 Fertility and Fiji's Indian migrants, 1879-1919
by Ralph Shlomowitz - 214-217 The peasant economy of East and North Bengal in the 1930s: Apropos of Omkar Goswami's reply to M.M. Islam
by Manoj Kumar Sanyal - 219-220 Book Reviews : SUCHITRA ANANT, S.V. RAMANI RAO and KABITA KAPOOR, Women at Work in India: A Bibliography, published for the Institute of Social Studies Trust by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1985 (sponsored by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India), 238 pp, Rs 150
by Mukul Mukherjee - 221-224 Book Reviews : SINNAPPAH ARASARATNAM, Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast 1650-1740. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986, Rs 190
by Joseph J. Brennig - 224-226 Book Reviews : DAVID ARNOLD, Police Power and Colonial Rule, Madras 1859-1947. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986
by Elizabeth Manak - 226-228 Book Reviews : M. ATHAR ALI, The Apparatus of Empire—Awards of Ranks, Offices and Titles to the Mughal Nobility, 1574-1658. Oxford University Press, 1985, Rs. 400
by S. Nurul Hasan - 228-229 Book Reviews : RAFAT M. BILGRAMI, Religious and Quasi-Religious Departments of the Mughal Period 1556-1707. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1984, Rs. 125
by Sunil Kumar - 229-231 Book Reviews : JAN BREMAN, Of Peasants, Migrants and Paupers: Rural Labour Circulation and Capitalist Production in West India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. xxviii + 472, Rs. 195
by Pradip Kumar Bose
March 1987, Volume 24, Issue 1
- 1-33 Rich lands and poor lords: Temple lands and tenancy in Nellore district, 1860 -1986
by M. Atchi Reddy - 35-61 State formation in South India, 850 -1280
by James Heitzman - 63-80 Opium monopoly in India and Indonesia in the eighteenth century
by Om Prakash - 81-98 Real wages of agricultural labourers in the Bombay Deccan, 1874-1922
by Sunanda Krishnamurty - 99-100 Communication
by Mustafa K. Sherwani - 101-103 Book Reviews : DILIP K. BASU and RICHARD SISSON eds., Social and Economic Development in India: A Reassessment. New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1986, 243 pp., Rs 140
by Oliver Mendelsohn - 103-106 Book Reviews : SARVEPALLI GOPAL, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, Vol. III, 1956-1964. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 336pp. + bibliography, Rs 120
by Partha Sarathi Gupta - 106-107 Book Reviews : S.A. KAKRAMBE, Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil and Mass Education Movement: Its Political Impact on Maharashtra. Bombay, Somaiya Publications, 1983, xvi + 186 pp., Rs 90
by Shanti George - 107-109 Book Reviews : OM PRAKASH, The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal 1660-1720. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985, xii + 291 pp., $38.50
by Niels Steensgaard - 110-112 Book Reviews : VIJAYA RAMASWAMY, Textiles and Weavers in Medieval South India. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, xvi + 250 pp., Rs. 150
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 112-113 Book Reviews : SUDHA V. RAO, Education and Rural Development. New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1986, 334 pp., Rs 150
by Shanti George - 114-116 Book Reviews : GEORGE ROSEN, Western Economists and Eastern Societies, Agents of Change in South Asia 1950-1970. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, 270 + xxii pp., Rs 120
by S. Ambirajan
December 1986, Volume 23, Issue 4
- 333-355 Textile producers and production in late seventeenth century Coromandel
by Joseph J. Brennig - 357-377 Aspects of state formation in South India and Southeast Asia, 1500-1650
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 379-402 Merchants and peasants : A study of the structure of local trade in grain in late eighteenth century Bengal
by Rajat Datta - 403-429 Grain traders and the East India Company: Patna and its hinterland in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
by Kum Kum Banerjee - 431-432 Book reviews : MICHAEL CARRITHERS, STEVEN COLLINS and STEVEN LUKES eds., The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, x + 309 pp
by T.N. Madan - 433-434 Book reviews : BIPAN CHANDRA, Communalism in Modern India. Vikas Publishing House, Delhi, 1984, xii + 363 pp., Rs. 150
by Mushirul Hasan - 435-436 Book reviews : NEIL CHARLESWORTH, Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, xii + 319 pp., price not stated
by Sumit Guha - 437-440 Book reviews : THOMAS B. COBURN, Devi-Mahatmya: The Crystallization of the Goddess Tradition. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1984, xvi + 359 pp., bibliography, index, Rs. 125. JOHN STRATTON HAWLEY and DONNA MARIE WULFF eds., The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1984 (also published in 1982 by Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California), xviii + 414 pp., illustrations, Bibliography, index, Rs. 250
by David Shulman - 440-442 Book reviews : SUMIT GUHA, The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan 1818-1941. Delhi, Oxford University Press, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, 1985, pp. 211 (with a bibliography), Rs. 145
by Alan Heston - 442-443 Book reviews : S.K. GUPTA, The Scheduled Castes in Modern Indian Politics: Their Emergence as a Political Power . New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1985, xi + 355 pp., Rs. 190
by Andre Beteille - 443-446 Book reviews : FRIEDHELM HARDY, Viraha Bhakti: The Early History of Krishna Devotion in South India. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 692 pp., Rs. 250
by R. Nagaswamy - 446-448 Book reviews : DAVID LUDDEN, Peasant History in South India. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985, xix + 310 pp., U.S.$52
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 448-449 Book reviews : DANIEL MILLER, Artefacts as Categories: A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India. (New Studies in Archaeology series). Cambridge University Press, 1985, 253 pp., price not stated
by D.K. Bhattacharya - 449-451 Book reviews : STEPHEN NEILL, A History of Christianity in India 1707-1858. London, Cambridge University Press, 1985, XVII + 578 pp., £45
by E.R. Hambye - 451-452 Book reviews : JEAN-PHILIPPE PLATTEAU, JOSE MURICKAN and ETIENNE EELBAR, Technology, Credit and Indebtedness in Marine Fishing-A Case Study of Three Fishing Villages in South Kerala. Delhi, Hindustan Publishing Corpo ration, 1985, xii + 406 pp., Rs. 150
by P.G.K. Panikar - 452-453 Book reviews : KIRSTEN WESTERGARRD, State and Rural Society in Bangladesh: A Study in Relationship. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph Series No. 49, Curzon Press, 1985, pp. 190
by Swadesh R. Bose
September 1986, Volume 23, Issue 3
- 249-262 Exiles and renegades in early sixteenth century Portuguese India
by Maria Augusta Lima Cruz - 263-288 The advantages of backwardness: Colonial policy and agriculture in Haryana
by Prem Chowdhry - 289-302 Infant mortality and Fiji's Indian migrants, 1879-1919
by Ralph Shlomowitz - 303-312 Artisans in Himachal Pradesh circa AD 700-1440: A study based on epigraphs
by Laxman S. Thakur - 313-321 The 'Manchester School' in Yorkshire: Economic relations between India and Sheffield in the mid-nineteenth century
by Ian Inkster - 323-324 Book reviews : MEGHNAD DESAI, SUZANNE HOEBER RUDOLPH and ASHOK RUDRA eds., Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 384 pages
by A.K. Dasgupta - 324-326 Book reviews : HETUKAR JHA, Colonial Context of Higher Education in India, New Delhi, Usha, 1985, pp. 152, Rs. 75
by Aparna Basu - 326-327 Book reviews : AMARTYA SEN, Resources, Values and Development, Delhi, OUP, 1984, pp. 547, Rs. 130
by Dharma Kumar - 327-328 Book reviews : JAN VANSINA, Oral Tradition as History, James Currey, London, and Heinemann Kenya, Nairobi, 1985, pp. 247
by Majid Hayat Siddiqi - 329-330 Book reviews : SHIV VISVANATHAN, Organising for Science, The Making of an Industrial Research Laboratory, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. vii + 279, Rs. 120
by Bharat Bhushan - 330-331 Book reviews : GEORGE DAVISON WINIUS, The Black Legend of Portuguese India: Diogo do Couto, His Contemporaries and the "Soldado Prático"—A Contribution to the Study of Political Corruption in the Empires of Early Modern Europe, XCHR Studies Series No. 3, New Delhi, Concept, 1985, pp. xxxi + 123, Rs. 80
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
June 1986, Volume 23, Issue 2
- 127-149 The dynamics of continuity in Indian domestic industry: Jari manufacture in Surat, 1900-47
by Douglas Haynes - 151-186 The daughters of Aryavarta
by Madhu Kishwar - 187-205 The impact of Islam on Kashmir in the Sultanate period (1320-1586)
by Mohammad Ishaq Khan - 207-215 Merchants of Konkan
by Ranabir Chakravarti - 217-226 Discussion
by M. Mufakharul Islam - 227-227 Book reviews : JERE L. BACHARACH, A Middle East Studies Handbook, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 160 pp., £25 (h.b.), £9.95 (p.b.)
by Mushirul Hasan - 228-230 Book reviews : CHRISTOPHER JOHN BAKER, An Indian Rural Economy, 1880-1955: The Tamilnad Countryside, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 637 pp., Rs. 165
by J. Krishnamurthy - 230-232 Book reviews : KAUSHIK BASU, The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contempor ary Theory, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, Rs. 90
by Ashok Rudra - 232-233 Book reviews : ANNE BOOTH and R.M. SUNDRAM, Labour Absorption in Agriculture, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 323 pp., Rs. 100
by A. Vaidyanathan - 233-234 Book reviews : R.S. KHARE, The Untouchable as Himself: Ideology, Identity and Pragmatism among the Lucknow Chamars, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 204 pp., £19.50
by Andre Beteille - 234-237 Book reviews : FREDERIQUE APFFEL MARGLIN, Wives of the God-King. The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, 404 pp., Rs. 180
by T.N. Madan - 237-239 Book reviews : M.B. McALPIN, Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920, Princeton University Press, 1983, $49.50
by Sumit Guha - 239-241 Book reviews : BARBARA D. METCALF ed., Moral Conduct and Authority; The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984, 389 pp., £30
by Sunil Kumar - 241-243 Book reviews : B.R. NANDA, Gandhi And His Critics, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985
by Hitesranjan Sanyal - 243-245 Book reviews : VEENA TALWAR OLDENBURG, The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856- 1877, Princeton, 1984, 287 pp
by Asiya Siddiqi - 245-247 Book reviews : TIM WRIGHT, Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895-1937, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 262 pp., £30.000
by Colin Simmons
March 1986, Volume 23, Issue 1
- 1-1 Errata
by N/A - 1-40 The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic— The Indian Experience
by I.D. Mills - 41-61 The Congress in a District, 1930-46: Problems of Political Mobilization
by Zoya Hasan - 63-78 Temple Girls of Medieval Karnataka
by Aloka Parasher & Usha Naik - 93-106 Hook- Swinging and Popular Religion in South India during the Nineteenth Century
by G.A. Oddie - 107-108 Book Reviews : A. BETEILLE, (ed.), Equality and Inequality: Theory and Practice, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. xii + 302, Rs 85, hardback
by Kaushik Basu - 109-111 Book Reviews : J.L. BROCKINGTON, Righteous RÄ ma: the Evolution of an Epic, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. x + 363, Rs 180
by Rosalind Lefeber - 111-113 Book Reviews : JEAN DELOCHE, The Ancient Bridges of India, New Delhi, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Scientific Research, 1984, pp. 121
by Shirish B. Patel - 113-115 Book Reviews : MARK HOLMSTRÖM, Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour, London, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. x + 342
by Kuriakose Mamkooitam - 115-116 Book Reviews : R.M. LALA, The Heartbeat of a Trust. Fifty Years of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill, 1984, pp. 187, Price Rs 45
by Aparna Basu - 117-118 Book Reviews : STEPHEN NEILL, A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 583, Price £45
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by Omkar Goswami - 119-121 Book Reviews : DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI and PRITI MISHRA, Towards a New Frontier (History of the Bank of Baroda 1908-1983, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1985, pp. 313, Rs 160
by A.G. Chandavarkar - 121-124 Book Reviews : ANANDA WICKREMERATNE: The Genesis of an Orientalist: Thomas William Rhys Davids and Buddhism in Sir Lanka, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1984, Rs 90
by Richard Gombrich
December 1985, Volume 22, Issue 4
- 371-397 Kinship and pargana in eighteenth century Khandesh
by Stewart Gordon & John F. Richards - 399-416 Deindustrialisation in Gangetic Bihar during the nineteenth century: Another look at the evidence
by J. Krishnamurty - 417-444 Artisans in Vijayanagar Society
by Vijaya Ramaswamy - 445-463 Staying on: The Portuguese of southern Coromandel in the late seventeenth century
by Sanjay Subramanyam - 465-465 Book reviews : ISHER JUDGE AHLUWALIA, Industrial Growth in India: Stagnation since the Mid-Sixties, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, xxii + 235 pp., Rs. 120
by B.N. Goldar - 466-466 Book reviews : TOM BOTTOMORE, LAURENCE HARRIS, V.G. KIERNAN and RALPH MILIBAND eds., A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Oxford, Blackwell, 1983, xi + 587 pp., price not stated
by Andre Beteille - 466-468 Book reviews : JUDITH M. BROWN, Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, xvi + 429 pp., 2 maps, glossary, index, Rs. 140
by Narayani Gupta - 468-469 Book reviews : TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA ed., Indo-Portuguese History: Old Issues, New Questions, New Delhi, Concept, 1984, xvi + 240 pp., Rs. 100
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 470-470 Book reviews : J.S. GREWAL and INDU BANGA eds., Studies in Urban History, Amritsar Guru Nanak Dev University, 209 pp., Rs. 42 (hb.) Rs. 35 (pb.)
by Sanjay Sharma - 471-472 Book reviews : OM PRAKASH, The Dutch Factories in India, 1617-1623, Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1984, xxiv + 332 pp., Rs. 150
by Ashin Das Gupta - 472-473 Book reviews : PETER ROBB ed., Rural India: Land, Power and Society under British Rule, London, Curzon Press, 1983, viii + 314 pp., £9.50
by Majid Hayat Siddiqi - 474-475 Book reviews : IAN STONE, Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy, Cambridge South Asian Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 374 pp., price not stated
by B.D. Dhawan
September 1985, Volume 22, Issue 3
- 223-223 Errata
by N/A - 225-249 Then came the Marwaris: Some aspects of the changes in the pattern of industrial control in Eastern India
by Omkar Goswami - 251-280 Bonds of community, ties of religion: Kanpur textile workers in the early twentieth century
by Chitra Joshi - 281-306 Structural change in Indian agriculture: Land and labour in Bellary district, 1890-1980
by Bruce L Robert Jr - 307-327 The value of the Ä€dÄ b al-Muluk as a historical source: An insight into the ideals and expectations of Islamic society in the Middle Period (A.D. 945-1500)
by sunil Kumar