The Indian Economic & Social History Review

1963 - 2025

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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

Volume 60, issue 4, 2023

‘Horn Please’: The evolution and regulation of traffic in twentieth-century India pp. 381-410

Purbasha Das

The limits of the ethnographic state in British India: The case of ‘foreign Asiatic vagrants’, c. 1860–1900 pp. 411-430

Claude Markovits

Salt, smuggling and citizenship: Redefining princely sovereignty through salt in Baroda, 1870–1920 pp. 431-450

Kate Boehme

Untouchability, caste, and the electorate: Revisiting legacies of the Poona Pact in Pakistan pp. 451-476

Sadia Mahmood

Book review: Ebba Koch, The Planetary King: Humayun Padshah, Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne pp. 477-479

Ali Anooshahr

Book review: Farhat Hasan, Paper, Performance, and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India pp. 479-481

Abhishek Kaicker

Book review: Neeti Nair, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia pp. 481-483

Sunny Kumar

Book review: Neilesh Bose, ed, South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Global Lives pp. 483-485

Uditi Sen

Index to Volume LX pp. 486-487

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Volume 60, issue 3, 2023

Classifying and counting the Dalits in the late colonial period: The conundrum of the Jatavs pp. 245-273

Ian Duncan

Linguistic minorities and strategic mobilisation in eastern India: Bengali-Biharis during the era of linguistic territorialism (1935–57) pp. 275-300

Medha Bhattacharya

Information and price convergence: Government telegraphs in British India pp. 301-334

Tahir Andrabi, Sheetal Bharat and Michael Kuehlwein

The idea of competition: Contextualising the debate over changing methods of recruitment in the Indian civil service during company rule pp. 335-363

Gautam Chandra

Book review: Aditya Pratap Deo, Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State pp. 365-367

Budhaditya Das

Book review: Blain Auer, In the Mirror of Persian Kings: The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India pp. 368-371

Corinne Lefèvre

Book review: Muzaffar Alam, The Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750 pp. 371-373

Alexandre Papas

Book review: Santosh Kumar Rai, Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces pp. 373-375

Tirthankar Roy

Volume 60, issue 2, 2023

Phule’s Gulamgiri: Turning Puranic memory on its head pp. 125-157

Mahesh Gavaskar

A Himalayan prince between India and Europe: Suchet Singh of Chamba and the limits of colonial subjectivity pp. 159-183

Arik Moran and Michal Hasson

Indian shawls in nineteenth-century Britain: A fashionable proposition? pp. 185-206

Suchitra Choudhury

Book review: Sangeeta Dasgupta, Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory pp. 229-231

Aditya Pratap Deo

Book review: Asiya Alam, Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia pp. 231-234

Rochisha Narayan

Book review: Thomas Simpson, The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century pp. 234-236

Anandaroop Sen

Book review: Nira Wickramasinghe, Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka pp. 236-238

Jonathan Spencer

Volume 60, issue 1, 2023

Commercialisation and landed proprietorship on the Malabar Coast in the eighteenth century pp. 5-36

Abhilash Malayil

Probing early Pakistan: East Bengal politicians and their exchanges with Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, 1947–51 pp. 37-58

Rakesh Ankit

Debating nationalism: Bihari intelligentsia and the Swadeshi movement of Bengal pp. 59-79

Sanjay Kumar

A study of the socio-economic context and impact of influenza pandemic of 1918–19 on Bihar pp. 81-104

Sudhanshu Kumar Jha

Book review: Radha Kumar, Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 pp. 105-107

David Arnold

Book review: Abhishek Kaicker, The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi pp. 107-109

Naveen Kanalu

Book review: Mytheli Sreenivas, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India pp. 110-112

Durba Mitra

Book review: Upinder Singh, ed., The World of India’s First Archaeologist: Letters from Alexander Cunningham to J. D. M. Beglar pp. 112-114

Uthara Suvrathan