The Indian Economic & Social History Review

1963 - 2026

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Volume 63, issue 3, 2026

Viewing the world from the Karnatak: Place and caste in Kannada and Persian warrior narratives in the long eighteenth century pp. 301-328

Subah Dayal and Naveen Kanalu

Reading the realm: Divination, warfare and political authority in the Ahom kingdom pp. 329-367

Ronit Konch

Regimental prostitution in provincial cantonment: A case study of chaklas, lock hospitals and colonial governance in Faizabad pp. 369-390

Richa Singh and Preeti Sharma

Faraway futures: Life insurance and the human lifespan as a commercial time-horizon in colonial India pp. 391-415

Poorva Rajaram

Book review: Shikha Jhingan, The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology pp. 417-419

Vebhuti Duggal

Book review: Aakriti Mandhwani, Everyday Reading: Hindi Middlebrow and the North Indian Middle Class pp. 420-422

Charu Gupta

Book review: Divya Cherian, Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia pp. 422-424

Akhila Mathew

Book review: Prem Poddar and Lisa Lindkvist Zhang, Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas pp. 424-427

Shubhanga Pandey

Volume 63, issue 2, 2026

Trade, treaty and territoriality: British empire on the high roads of Central Asia pp. 149-173

Fayaz Ali

Babel: Participatory media for children and its early travails in India, 1940–1950s pp. 175-206

Hia Sen

Capital and community: Syrian Christian agrarian enterprise in Travancore, c. 1880–1950 ce pp. 207-252

Emil Manu Oommen

Convenient lies and inconvenient truths: Commissioner Lin Zexu and western perceptions of Qing China (1793–1860) pp. 253-277

David Atwill

Book review: Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee, Eds. The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns Across History pp. 279-281

Pratik Chakrabarti

Book review: Aditya Balasubramanian, Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India pp. 282-284

Meghna Chaudhuri

Book review: Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Mirrors of Empire: Courtiers, Diplomats and Intellectuals in Mughal India pp. 284-288

Rosalind O’Hanlon

Book review: Prakash Kumar, A History of India’s Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy pp. 289-291

Benjamin R. Siegel

Volume 63, issue 1, 2026

Mizos in unexpected places: Northeast Indian travellers in the Raj and beyond, 1870s–1930s pp. 5-53

Kyle Jackson

Pre-colonial Duars as Indo-Bhutan borderland: Towards a historical reconstruction pp. 55-75

Somoshree De

(Dis)Connecting the Andamans: Cyclones, colonial telecommunication and the making of meteorological networks in the Bay of Bengal pp. 77-102

Zhenwu Qiu

The power of peasant poets: Writing rural histories in South India (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) pp. 103-132

S. Gunasekaran

Book review: Sanghamitra Misra, The Long Conquest: Territorialisation, Rebellion and the ‘Tribe’ in Eastern India, Circa 1760–1900 pp. 133-135

Uday Chandra

Book review: Saagar Tewari, Islands against Civilisation: Anthropology, Nationalism and the Politics of Scheduling, 1918–1950 pp. 136-138

Gitika De

Book review: Gregory Goulding, Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literature pp. 138-140

Aakriti Mandhwani

Book review: Charu Gupta, Hindi Hindu Histories: Caste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early-Twentieth-Century India pp. 140-143

Preetha Mani

Volume 62, issue 4, 2025

The many tellings of Sassi and Punnun: A history of language order in Sindh and Punjab pp. 429-451

Shayan Rajani

Ethnography and law: The archive of colonial violence, Garo Hills circa 1830–70 pp. 453-479

Sanghamitra Misra

Sugar in eastern India: Commercial agriculture and the Indian Ocean trade, c. 1600–1800 pp. 481-506

Murari Kumar Jha

Partners in Empire: Indigenous business, imperial technology, and the Indian Radio Telegraph Company pp. 507-524

Danish Khan

Book review: Ruchika Sharma, Concubinage, Race, and Law in Early Colonial Bengal: Bequeathing Intimacy, Servicing the Empire pp. 525-527

Swapna M. Banerjee

Book review:Faisal Chaudhry, South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Towards a Historical Ontology of the Law pp. 527-530

Rahul Govind

Book review: Sugata Bose, Asia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century pp. 530-532

Dilip M. Menon

Book review: Gyanendra Pandey, Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India pp. 532-534

Amrita Tulika

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