The Indian Economic & Social History Review

1963 - 2025

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Volume 62, issue 3, 2025

Disciplining Dakans: Witchcraft, law and everyday lives in eighteenth-century Marwar pp. 285-306

Akhila Mathew

The making of Muslim ghettos in Calcutta, 1946–64 pp. 307-333

Jonayed Rousan Mandal and Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

Khutput: Scandal, native politics and the impersonal state in colonial India pp. 335-374

Prashant Iyengar

The VÄ jasaneya brÄ hmaṇas of the Rushikulya valley, 550–1000 ce pp. 375-407

Raj Purushottam Shirode

Book review: Katherine Butler Schofield, Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India, Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858; Richard Davis Williams, The Scattered Court, Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal; Radha Kapuria, Music in Colonial Punjab, Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800–1947 pp. 409-414

Partho Datta

Book review: Peter Robb, Benign Imperialism? Proper Conduct and the Public Interest in Colonial India pp. 414-416

Michael H. Fisher

Book review: Taylor C. Sherman, Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths pp. 416-418

Prakash Kumar

Volume 62, issue 2, 2025

Scholar, interpreter, arbitrator, citizen: The many lives of Maridas Pillai pp. 149-187

Gauri Parasher

Island networks: Telecommunications in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the early twentieth century pp. 189-221

Medha Saxena

Oscillating diasporas, shifting identities: Bene Israel Indian Jews in Aden, 1839–1967 pp. 223-242

Shalva Weil

Subjects of an Orientalist despot: John Ross and the ‘Malaynesian’ people of the northeastern Indian Ocean, 1812–54 pp. 243-265

Michael Laffan

Book review: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 pp. 267-269

Evrim BinbaÅŸ

Book review: Harit Joshi, The Ceremonial of Power: The Mughal Empire under Shah Jahan pp. 270-272

Munis D. Faruqui

Book review: Maulana Da’ud, The Chandayan pp. 272-274

Francesca Orsini

Book review: A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Swadeshi Steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle against the British Maritime Empire pp. 274-277

Tirthankar Roy

Volume 62, issue 1, 2025

The rise of subaltern gurus in western India: Caste, identity and religion pp. 5-31

Parag D. Parobo

From cheri to ur: The historical geography of a Dalit village in the Tamil countryside pp. 33-66

Karthik Rao-Cavale

Limits of the adivasi category: Critical notes on writing the ‘indigenous’ in India pp. 67-99

Ngoru Nixon

Empire, epidemic, and the agrarian world: Kala-azar (Visceral leishmaniasis) in Assam, 1883–1930 pp. 101-129

N. S. Abhilasha

Book review: Joshua Ehrlich, The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge pp. 131-133

Prathama Banerjee

Book review: Reeju Ray, Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge pp. 133-136

Deepak Naorem

Book review: Farhat Hasan, Voices in Verses: Women’s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth-Century India pp. 136-139

Carla Petievich

Book review: Sharmila Purkayastha, Of Captivity and Resistance: Women Political Prisoners in Postcolonial India pp. 140-142

Gemma Scott

Volume 61, issue 4, 2024

Revolutionaries, coercive institutions and the crisis of collaboration in interwar India pp. 437-461

Kama Maclean

Between the Mughals and the Ahoms: The hill chieftains of Kamrup in the Brahmaputra Valley pp. 463-492

Jae-Eun Shin

Executing the unrepresented: Legal aid, trial procedure and capital punishment in colonial India pp. 493-519

Alastair McClure

An elusive line in an elusive frontier: Delineating the historical trajectory of the inner line in India’s northeast pp. 521-540

Thejalhoukho

Book review: Razak Khan, Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur pp. 541-543

Zara Ismail

Book review: Anna Sailer, Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s–1930s pp. 543-545

Shivangi Jaiswal

Book review: Ronojoy Sen, House of the People: Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy pp. 546-548

Shefali Jha

Book review: Francesca Orsini, East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature pp. 548-551

Javed Majeed

Book review: Douglas E. Haynes, The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India: Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality pp. 551-553

Carol Upadhya

Volume 61, issue 3, 2024

The making of a ‘narco-state’: Opium consumption, trade and regulations on the northeastern frontier of British India pp. 293-324

Nabanita Sharma

Writing the past, writing the present: Abd al-Qadir Badauni’s narrative of the history of the Delhi Sultanate pp. 325-348

Ikramul Haque

Magahiya Doms and untouchability pp. 349-382

Sonali Verma

Language, identity and geography: State reorganisation and the emergence of Himachal Pradesh pp. 383-414

Yogesh Snehi

Book review: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta pp. 415-417

Purbasha Das

Book review: Peter Robb, Agrarian Development in Colonial India: The British and Bihar pp. 418-420

Prakash Kumar

Book review: Prachi Deshpande, Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India pp. 420-423

Ahona Panda

Book review: Suvobrata Sarkar, ed., History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India pp. 423-425

Tirthankar Roy

Volume 61, issue 2, 2024

Venereal diseases, public health and sanitary measures in the mid-nineteenth-century Madras Presidency pp. 149-177

Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan

Thinking with two heads: The poetics of asat in early-modern India pp. 179-201

Yigal Bronner and David Shulman

Frontiersmen in imperial Delhi: Regulating Afghans and their moneylending, 1912–49 pp. 203-229

Priyanka Sharma

The genesis of Suket Satyagraha and the birth of Himachal Pradesh pp. 231-252

Laxman S. Thakur

Divided by blood: Race and religion in early-modern Iberia pp. 253-277

Mercedes García-Arenal

Book review: Amit Kumar, Precious Threads and Precarious Lives: Histories of Shawl and Silk Industries of Kashmir, 1846–1950 pp. 279-281

Suchitra Choudhury

Book review: Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony pp. 281-284

Dilip M. Menon

Volume 61, issue 1, 2024

An elusive quest for a region: Darbhanga Raj, caste and language in late colonial India pp. 5-31

Aryendra Chakravartty

The politics of commerce in eighteenth-century Bengal: A reappraisal pp. 33-66

Anirban Karak

Religion-making in South Asia: An interstitial perspective pp. 67-96

Nirvikar Singh

Caste, food and colonialism: ‘Outcaste’ domestics in the European houses of Madras Presidency pp. 97-131

S. Gunasekaran

Book review: Guido van Meersbergen, Ethnography and Encounter: The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia pp. 133-135

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book review: Amanda Weidman, Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India pp. 135-137

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book review: Claude Markovits, India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750–2000 pp. 138-140

Michael O’Sullivan

Book review: Samuel Wright, A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India 1500–1700 CE pp. 140-143

Tyler W. Williams