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Volume 40, issue 4, 2003

The rhetorical strategy of an autobiography: Reading Satyavati's A tmacaritamu pp. 377-402

Vakulabharanam Rajagopal

Colonial commercial forest policy and tribal private forests in Madras Presidency: 1792-1881 pp. 403-423

Velayutham Saravanan

Crisis, charisma and triage: Extirpating the pox pp. 425-457

Harish Naraindas

Book Reviews: NICHOLAS B. DIRKS, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002, pp. 372 pp. 459-461

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: BISWAMOY PATI and MARK HARRISON, eds, Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspec tives on Colonial India, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 2001, pp. 408. ARABINDA SAMANTA, Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal, 1820-1939, Kolkata, Firma KLM, 2002, pp. 271 pp. 461-464

Satadru Sen

Book Reviews: PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA and ANIRUDH DESHPANDE, eds, The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002 pp. 464-467

Douglas M. Peers

Book Reviews: CHANNA WICKREMESEKERA, 'Best Black Troops in the World': British Perceptions and the Making of the Sepoy, 1746-1805, New Delhi, Manohar, 2002, pp. 212 pp. 467-469

Michael H. Fisher

Book Reviews: PARTHA CHATTERJEE and ANJAN GHOSH, eds, History and the Present, Delhi, Perman ent Black, 2002, pp.273 pp. 469-471

Sasheej Hegde

Book Reviews: RAJAT KANTA RAY, Exploring Emotional History: Gender, Mentality and Literature in the Indian Awakening, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 333 pp. 472-474

Anindita Mukhopadhyay

Book Reviews: KIRIT K. SHAH, The Problem of Identity: Women in Early Indian Inscriptions, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 194 pp. 474-476

K.M. Shrimali

Book Reviews: KRISHNA KUMAR, Prejudice and Pride: School Histories of the Freedom Struggle in India and Pakistan, New Delhi: Viking, Penguin India, Rs 395 pp. 477-481

V. Geetha

Book Reviews: GYAN PRAKASH, Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 304 pp. 481-483

Banu Subramaniam

Volume 40, issue 3, 2003

Old Tamil Cahkam literature and the so-called Cankam period pp. 247-278

Herman Tieken

From caste to category: Colonial knowledge practices and the Depressed/Scheduled Castes of Bihar pp. 279-310

Awadhendra Sharan

Meeting at the threshold, at the edge of the carpet or somewhere in between? Questions of ceremonial in princely India pp. 311-333

Dick Kooiman

Colonial contact in the 'hidden land': Oral history among the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh pp. 335-365

Stuart Blackburn

Book Reviews: NANDINI GOOPTU, The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth Century India. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. xxiii + 464 pp. 367-370

Janaki Nair

Book Reviews: PRASANNAN PARTHASARATHI, The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Mer chants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society 7), Cambridge, CUP, 2001, pp. xii + 165 pp. 370-373

Ravi Ahuja

Book Reviews: KATHLEEN TAYLOR, Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal: 'An Indian Soul in a European Body', Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001, pp. 319 pp. 373-376

Gautam Chakravarty

Volume 40, issue 2, 2003

Turning the stones over: Sixteenth-century millenarianism from the Tagus to the Ganges pp. 129-161

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

'White women degrading themselves to the lowest depths': European networks of prostitution and colonial anxieties in British India and Ceylon ca. 1880-1914 pp. 163-190

Harald Fischer-Tiné

The nautee in 'the second city of the Empire' pp. 191-235

Rimli Bhattacharya

Book Reviews: J.L. GOMMANS and D.H.A. KOLFF, eds, Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia: 1000-1800, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 395 pp. 237-239

Iqbal Ghani Khan

Book Reviews: DAVID N. GELLNER, The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 397 pp. 239-242

Sasheej Hegde

Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN and NARIAKI NAKAZATO, eds, The Unfinished Agenda. Nation- building in South Asia, New Delhi, Manohar, 2001, pp. 536 pp. 242-245

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: JAYMALA DIDDEE and SAMITA GUPTA, Pune: Queen of the Deccan, Pune, Elephant Design Pvt Ltd., 2000, pp. 304 pp. 245-246

James W. Laine

Volume 40, issue 1, 2003

Europeans in late Mughal south Asia: The perceptions of Italian missionaries pp. 1-31

David N. Lorenzen

Cattle, crime and colonialism: Property as negotiation in north India pp. 33-56

David Gilmartin

Face value: Ravi Varma's portraiture and the project of colonial modernity pp. 57-79

G. Arunima

Damming the Mahanadi river: The emergence of multi-purpose river valley development in India (1943-46) pp. 81-105

Rohan D'Souza

Book Reviews: ANDREW ABBOTT, Chaos of Disciplines, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 259 pp. 107-109

Harish Naraindas

Book Reviews: TIRTHANKAR ROY, The Economic History of India, 1857-1947. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2000, pp. 318 pp. 109-111

David Ludden

Book Reviews: SANJAY JOSHI, Fractured Modernity. Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 187 pp. 111-113

Francesca Orsini

Book Reviews: RAJEN SAIKIA, Social and Economic History of Assam, 1853-1921, Manohar, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 258 pp. 113-114

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: SANJAY SHARMA, Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 256 pp. 114-116

Visalakshi Menon

Book Reviews: CATHERINE A. ROBINSON, Tradition and Liberation: The Hindu Tradition in the Indian Women's Movement, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1999, pp. 230 pp. 116-118

Charu Gupta

Book Reviews: MEENA RADHAKRISHNA, Dishonoured by History? Criminal Tribes and British Colonial Policy, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2001, pp. 192 pp. 119-121

Ravi Ahuja

Book Reviews: SHAMITA BASU, Religious Revivalism as Nationalist Discourse. Swami Vivekananda and New Hinduism in Nineteenth Century Bengal, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 202 pp. 122-124

Amiya P. Sen

Book Reviews: HARIPRIYA RANGAN, Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 272. AKHILESHWAR PATHAK, Laws, Strategies and Ideologies: Legislating Forests in Colonial India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 185 pp. 124-127

Archana Prasad

Volume 39, issue 4, 2002

The 'hut' and the 'axe': The 1947 Sylhet referendum pp. 317-350

Bidyut Chakrabarty

State formation and 'famine policy' in early colonial south India pp. 351-380

Ravi Ahuja

Relic or Springboard? A note on the 'rebirth' of Portuguese Hughli, ca. 1632-1820 pp. 381-395

Jorge Manuel Flores

Indian political economy and the early British industrial revolution: A fresh look for 1753-1794 pp. 397-415

Neeraj Hatekar

The female jails of colonial India pp. 417-438

Satadru Sen

Book Reviews: FRANCIS ROBINSON, The 'Ulama of Farangi Mahall and Islamic Culture in South Asia, Delhi, Permanent Black, 2001, pp. 267 pp. 439-441

Barbara Metcalf

Book Reviews: VASANT MOON, Growing Up Untouchable in India. A Dalit Autobiography, Boston, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001, pp. 203 pp. 441-444

Awadhendra Sharan

Book Reviews: DAVID SHULMAN, The Wisdom of Poets Studies in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 384 pp. 444-447

Kanchana Natarajan

Book Reviews: JESSE S. PALSETIA, The Parsis of India: Preservation of Identity in Bombay City, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2001, pp. 368 pp. 447-448

Claude Markovits

Book Reviews: PETER L. SCHMITTHENNER, Telugu Resurgence: C.P. Brown and Cultural Consolid ation in Nineteenth-Century South India, Delhi: Manohar, 2001, pp. 324 pp. 448-450

A. Raghuramaraju

Book Reviews: KUNAL CHAKRABARTI. Religious Process: The PurÄ nas and the Making of a Regional Tradition. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 368 pp. 450-451

David L. Curley

Book Reviews: ROMILA THAPAR, ÅšakuntalÄ: Texts, Readings, Histories, Delhi: Kali for Women, 1999, pp. x + 272, Rs 400 pp. 452-454

David Shulman

Book Reviews: VASUDHA DALMIA, ANGELIKA MALINAR and MARTIN CHRISTOF, eds, Charisma and Canon: Essays on the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 461. ANTONY COPLEY, ed., Gurus and Their Followers: New Religious Reform Movements in Colonial India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 235. W.H. McLEOD, Exploring Sikhism: Aspects of Sikh Identity, Culture and Thought, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 288 pp. 454-458

Daniel Gold

Book Reviews: AYESHA JALAL, Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 630 pp. 458-460

David Gilmartin

Book Reviews: UPINDER SINGH, Ancient Delhi, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 114 pp. 460-462

Sunil Kumar

Volume 39, issue 2-3, 2002

Making sense of Indian historiography pp. 121-130

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Cooperation and conflict among European traders in the Indian Ocean in the late eighteenth century pp. 131-148

Om Prakash

The opium industry in British India pp. 149-180

John F. Richards

Claims on the commons: Political power and natural resources in pre-colonial India pp. 181-196

Sumit Guha

Profiles in transition: Of adventurers and administrators in south India, 1750-1810 1 pp. 197-231

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Spectres of agrarian territory in southern India pp. 233-257

David Ludden

From mirasidar to pattadar: South India in the late nineteenth century pp. 259-284

Tsukasa Mizushima

Madras handkerchiefs in the interwar period pp. 285-300

Tirthankar Roy

'In those days there was no coffee': Coffee-drinking and middle-class culture in colonial Tamilnadu pp. 301-316

A.R. Venkatachalapathy

Volume 39, issue 1, 2002

Drugs, health, bodies and souls in the tropics: Medical experiments in sixteenth-century Portuguese India1 pp. 1-43

Ines G. Županov

Horrid sights and customary rights: The Toda funeral on the colonial Nilgiris pp. 45-70

Deborah Sutton

Conflicts in the international maritime labour market: British and Indian seamen, employers, and the state, 1890-1939 pp. 71-100

G. Balachandran

Intersecting paths in early South Asian historiography: A review pp. 101-111

James Heitzman

Book Reviews: S. SIVASUBRAMONIAN, The National Income of India in the Twentieth Century, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 655 pp. 113-115

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: SUVIR KAUL, ed., The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India, Delhi, Permanent Black, 2001, pp. 301 pp. 115-117

David Gilmartin

Book Reviews: JEAN MARIE LAFONT, Chitra, Cities and Monuments of Eighteenth Century India from French Archives, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 162 pp. 117-119

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book Reviews: MEERA KOSAMBI, compiled, edited and partly translated, Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 337 pp. 119-120

Sumit Guha