The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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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

Srimanjari Sss

Volume 58, issue 4, 2021

The Ghaznavid Empire of India pp. 441-476

Ali Anooshahr

Is Indian sedition law colonial? J. F. Stephen and the jurisprudence on free speech pp. 477-504

Sunny Kumar

Janabai and Gangakhed of Das Ganu: Towards ethnic unity and religious cohesion in a time of transition pp. 505-532

Irina Glushkova

Tax Raj: Koyas, migration and adivasi frontiers in the central provinces pp. 533-559

Rakesh M. Krishnan

Book review: Suhita Sinha Roy, The Cultural Economy of Land: Rural Bengal, Circa 1860–1940 pp. 561-563

Rajarshi Dasgupta

Book review: Rakesh Ankit, India in the Interregnum: Interim Government, September 1946–August 1947 pp. 563-565

Saumya Gupta

Book review: Awadhendra Sharan, Dust and Smoke: Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism, India, c.1860–c.1940 pp. 565-567

Sopan Joshi

Book review: Tarangini Sriraman, In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India pp. 568-570

Aprajita Sarcar

Index to Volume LVIII pp. 571-572

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Volume 58, issue 3, 2021

The early decades of the Bata Shoe Company in India: From establishment to economic and social integration pp. 297-332

Milan Balaban, Jan Herman and Dalibor Savic´

Management science and nation building: The sociotechnical imaginary behind the making of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad pp. 333-359

Lourens van Haaften

Wilding the domestic: Camp servants and glamping in British India pp. 361-391

Ezra D. Rashkow

Baptising Pandita Ramabai: Faith and religiosity in the nineteenth-century social reform movements of colonial India pp. 393-424

Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati, Prithvi Sinha and Sneha Garg

Book review: Osmund Bopearachchi and Suchandra Ghosh, eds, Early Indian History and Beyond: Essays in Honour of B. D. Chattopadhyaya pp. 425-427

Daud Ali

Book review: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, c. 1400–1650 pp. 427-429

Manan Ahmed Asif

Book review: Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon, eds, Capitalisms: Towards a Global History pp. 429-432

Jairus Banaji

Book review: Ryosuke Furui, Land and Society in Early South Asia: Eastern India 400–1250 AD pp. 432-434

Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

Volume 58, issue 2, 2021

Once bitten, twice shy: A French traveller and go-between in Mughal India, 1648–67 pp. 153-212

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

‘Hindu Communism’: Satyabhakta, apocalypses and utopian Ram Rajya pp. 213-248

Charu Gupta

Motherhood on display: The child welfare exhibition in colonial Calcutta, 1920 pp. 249-277

Ranjana Saha

Book review: Durba Mitra, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought pp. 279-281

Charu Gupta

Book review: A. D. Jhala, An Endangered History: Indigeneity, Religion, and Politics on the Borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh pp. 281-283

Joy L. K. Pachuau

Book review: Sanjib Baruah, In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast pp. 283-286

Ahona Panda

Book review: A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Who Owns That Song? The Battle for Subramania Bharati’s Copyright pp. 286-289

Devika Sethi

Volume 58, issue 1, 2021

Obituary: Professor Sunil Kumar (1956–2021) pp. 5-5

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Sweet, sweet language: Prakrit and MaṇipravÄ á¸·am in premodern Kerala pp. 7-27

Sivan Goren-Arzony

Idiom and innovation in the ‘Gupta Period’: Revisiting Eran and Sondhni pp. 29-71

Elizabeth A. Cecil and Peter C. Bisschop

Narratives of a place named Ellora: Myths, culture and politics pp. 73-111

Mahesh Sharma

Grape wine in ancient and early Medieval India: The view from the centre pp. 113-144

James McHugh