The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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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

Volume 59, issue 4, 2022

Partitioning the University of the Panjab, 1947 pp. 423-445

Yaqoob Khan Bangash and Pippa Virdee

A jar of pure poetry over the head of a polluted god: On the cultural economy of TiruniḻalmÄ la pp. 447-470

Cezary Galewicz

Taming the ‘rude’ and ‘barbarous’ tongues of the frontier: Bor Saheps, Sutu Saheps and their encounters with languages, scripts, and texts (1835–1904) pp. 471-506

Deepak Naorem

Contending claims and uses of land: Unpacking the trajectory of a mortgage in Thane pp. 507-533

Priya Sangameswaran

Book review: Ebba Koch, ed., in collaboration with Ali Anooshahr, The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan: Art, Architecture, Politics, Law and Literature pp. 535-538

Subah Dayal

Book review: Edward A. Alpers and Chhaya Goswami, eds., Transregional Trade and Traders: Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from Early Times to 1900 pp. 538-541

Shireen Hamza

Book review: Radhika Singha, The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict (1914–1921) pp. 541-543

Rachel Sturman

Book review: Christopher Fleming, Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence pp. 544-546

Samuel Wright

Index to Volume LIX pp. 547-549

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Volume 59, issue 3, 2022

Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita: An independent poet of the Kaveri delta, or: The forgotten model of genealogical authorship pp. 273-298

Talia Ariav

Literary and religious history from the middle: Merchants and bhakti in early modern North India pp. 299-334

Tyler W. Williams

Floods, aridity and rivers: An environmental history of pargana Mandalghat in eighteenth-century Bengal pp. 335-371

Ujjayan Bhattacharya

Widowhood revisited: Nature of landholding and women’s work in colonial agrarian Bengal pp. 373-400

Ishita Chakravarty and Deepita Chakravarty

Book review: Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Voices of Komagata Maru: Imperial Surveillance and Workers from Punjab in Bengal pp. 401-403

Preet S. Aulakh

Book review: Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor pp. 403-406

Arun Kumar

Book review: Pasha M. Khan, The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu pp. 406-408

Francesca Orsini

Book review: Peter Robb, Ideas Matter: Debating the Impact of British Rule on India pp. 408-411

Tirthankar Roy

Book review: Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity pp. 411-414

Mudit Trivedi

Volume 59, issue 2, 2022

Exilic journeys and lives: Paths leading to a Mughal grave in Rangoon pp. 133-169

Teren Sevea

Reconfiguring colonial hierarchies: Examining the ‘European versus native wrestling’ debate in the late nineteenth-century India pp. 171-198

Ajay Jacob Thomas

Partition’s orphaned and abandoned children in Pakistan pp. 199-222

Ilyas Chattha

Supply of labour during early industrialisation: Agricultural systems, textile factory work and gender in Japan and India, ca. 1880–1940 pp. 223-255

Aditi Dixit and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

Book review: Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat and Rachel Dwyer, eds, Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos pp. 257-259

Sheetal Chhabria

Book review: Megan Eaton Robb, Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India pp. 259-262

Walter N. Hakala

Book review: Manu V. Devadevan, ed, Clio and Her Descendants: Essays for Kesavan Veluthat pp. 262-264

Kumkum Roy

Book review: Annie Devenish, Debating Women’s Citizenship in India, 1930–1960 pp. 264-267

Mrinalini Sinha

Volume 59, issue 1, 2022

Trustees of the nation? Business, philanthropy and changing modes of legitimacy in colonial and postcolonial western India pp. 5-36

Kena Wani

Keeping the master cool, every day, all day: Punkah-pulling in colonial India pp. 37-73

Ritam Sengupta

Commodities trade, river transport and colonialism: The Brahmaputra river valley in the nineteenth century pp. 75-94

Nabanita Sharma

Science journalism in Hindi in pre-independence India: A study of Hindi periodicals pp. 95-117

Sandipan Baksi

Book review: Devika Sethi, War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930–1960 pp. 119-121

Deana Heath

Book review: Sahara Ahmed, Woods, Mines and Minds: Politics of Survival in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals, 1860–1970 pp. 121-123

Lipika Kamra

Book review: Uma Das Gupta, ed., Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’: Andrews, Tagore and Gandhi—An Epistolary Account, 1912–1940 pp. 123-125

Amiya P. Sen

Book review: Benjamin Robert Siegel, Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India pp. 125-127

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