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Volume 38, issue 4, 2001

First grammarian, first poet: A south Indian vision of cultural origins pp. 353-373

David Shulman

Dr Johnson and the pandits: Imagining the perfect dictionary in colonial Madras pp. 375-397

Thomas R. Trautmann

The nation in heterogeneous time pp. 399-418

Partha Chatterjee

Motor or millstone? The managing agency system in Bombay and Ahmedabad, 1850-1930 pp. 419-452

Gijsbert Oonk

Review Article: Whispers and shouts: Some recent writings on medieval south India pp. 453-465

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Reviews: NIVEDITA MENON, ed., Gender and Politics in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 539 pp. 467-469

Lata Singh

Book Reviews: JOAN-PAU RUBIÈS, Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xxii + 443 pp. 469-471

Angela Barreto Xavier

Book Reviews: CHHANDA CHATTOPADHYAY, Ecology, the Sikh Legacy and the Raj: Punjab, 1849-1887, Calcutta, Minerva Associates, 1997, pp. xi + 89 pp. 471-473

Amar Farooqui

Book Reviews: PHILIPPE CADÈNE and DENIS VIDAL, eds, Webs of Trade: Dynamics of Business Communities in Western India, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, pp. 196 pp. 473-474

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: UDAY SINGH MEHTA, Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 232 pp. 475-477

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Book Reviews: NITA KUMAR, Lessons from Schools: The History of Education in Banaras, New Delhi, Sage, 2000, pp. 233 pp. 478-480

Clare Talwalker

Book Reviews: EDWIN GREEN and SARA KINSEY, The Paradise Bank: The Mercantile Bank of India, 1893-1984, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999, pp. 272 pp. 480-482

Prabhu Guptara

Book Reviews: MUZAFFAR ALAM and SEEMA ALAVI, trs and eds, A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The I'jâz-i Arsalânî (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. xvi + 422 pp. 482-484

Michael H. Fisher

Book Reviews: AJAY PRATAP, The Hoe and the Axe: An Ethnohistory of Shifting Cultivation in Eastern India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 157 pp. 484-486

Upinder Singh

Book Reviews: PETER ANDREW, Felt Tents and Pavilions: The Nomadic Tradition and its Interaction with Princely Tentage, London, Melisende, 1999, 2 vols, pp. 1,472 pp. 487-489

Ebba Koch

Book Reviews: PREM CHOWDHRY, Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000 pp. 490-492

T. Muraleedharan

Book Reviews: BRADLEY R. HERTEL and CYNTHIA ANN HUMES, eds, Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context, New Delhi, Manohar, 1998, pp. 320 pp. 492-495

Nita Kumar

Volume 38, issue 3, 2001

Gender politics and the Urdu ghazal: Exploratory observations on Rekhta versus Rekhti pp. 223-248

Carla Petievich

Scientific experiments in British India: Scientists, indigo planters and the state, 1890-1930 pp. 249-270

Prakash Kumar

Homeless in Gujarat and India: On the curious love of Indulal Yagnik pp. 271-297

Ajay Skaria

Kings and commerce on an agrarian frontier: Kalketu's story in Mukunda's Candimangal pp. 299-324

David L. Curley

Book Reviews: Wim Van Spengen, Tibetan Border Worlds: A Geohistorical Analysis of Trade and Traders, London/New York, Kegan Paul International, 2000, pp. 307 pp. 325-327

Bernardo A. Michael

Book Reviews: Raka Ray, Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 2000, pp. 217 pp. 327-329

Kalpana Viswanath

Book Reviews: Javeed Alam, India, Living with Modernity, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 241 pp. 329-330

Ranabir Samaddar

Book Reviews: John Zavos, The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 245 pp. 330-333

Bidyut Chakrabarty

Book Reviews: Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999 pp. 333-335

Nivedita Menon

Book Reviews: D.L. Sheth and Gurpreet Mahajan, eds, Minority Identities and the Nation-State, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 334 pp. 335-337

Sanjay Palshikar

Book Reviews: Mariam Dossal and Ruby Maloni, eds, State Intervention and Popular Response: Western India in the Nineteenth Century, Mumbai, Popular Prakashan, 1999 pp. 337-339

Padma Anagol

Book Reviews: Sucheta Mahajan, Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2000, pp. 425 pp. 340-342

Bidyut Chakrabarty

Book Reviews: David Arnold, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 234 pp. 342-344

Nasir Tyabji

Book Reviews: David Ludden, The New Cambridge History of India IV. 4: An Agrarian History of South Asia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 261 pp. 344-347

Chetan Singh

Book Reviews: Bipan Chandra, Essays on Colonialism, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 1999, pp. 365 pp. 347-348

Biswamoy Pati

Book Reviews: Parnendu S. Kavoori, Pastoralism in Expansion: The Transhuming Herders of Rajasthan, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 210, and Arun Agrawal, Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 219 pp. 349-352

Marcia J. Frost

Volume 38, issue 2, 2001

Remains of the race: Archaeology, nationalism, and the yearning for civilisation in the Indus valley pp. 105-145

Sumathi Ramaswamy

Development and death: Reinterpreting malaria, economics and ecology in British India pp. 147-179

Ira Klein

Imperial policy and the decline of the Bengal salt industry under colonial rule: An episode in the 'de-industrialisation' process pp. 181-205

Indrajit Ray

Book Reviews: MADHU KISHWAR, Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Indian Women, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 290 pp. 207-209

Nivedita Menon

Book Reviews: RAMACHANDRA GUHA and JONATHAN P. PARRY, eds, Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of André Béteille, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 302 pp. 209-211

Carol Upadhya

Book Reviews: TIRTHANKAR ROY, Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xi + 252 pp. 211-214

Douglas E. Haynes

Book Reviews: INDRANI CHATTERJEE, Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 286 pp. 214-216

David Gilmartin

Book Reviews: ALF HILTEBEITEL, Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims and Dalits, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 560 pp. 216-218

Cynthia Talbot

Book Reviews: PRADIP KUMAR DATTA, Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Twentieth-Century Bengal, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 312 pp. 218-220

Gail Minault

Book Reviews: BONNIE C. WADE, Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art and Culture in Mughal India, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1998 pp. 220-222

Pulin Nayak

Volume 38, issue 1, 2001

New intellectuals in seventeenth-century India pp. 3-31

Sheldon Pollock

'Through throats where many rivers meet': The ecology of Hindi in the world of Persian pp. 33-58

Shantanu Phukan

Vernacular histories in late nineteenth-century Banaras: Folklore, PurÄ nas and the new antiquarianism pp. 59-79

Vasudha Dalmia

Languages, families and the plural learning of the nineteenth-century intelligentsia pp. 81-103

Nita Kumar

Volume 37, issue 4, 2000

Sitting on the school verandah: The ideology and practice of 'untouchable' educational protest in late nineteenth-century western India pp. 383-422

Philip Constable

Debt, time and extravagance: Money and the making of 'primitives' in colonial Bengal pp. 423-445

Prathama Banerjee

Leaders and publics: Stories in the time of transition pp. 447-478

Ranabir Samaddar

Book Reviews: A.R. VASAVI, Harbingers of Rain: Land and Life in South India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 178 pp. 479-481

Haruka Yanagisawa

Book Reviews: NEERA CHANDHOKE, Beyond Secularism: The Rights of Religious Minorities, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999,pp. 321 pp. 481-484

Javeed Alam

Book Reviews: PAUL ERIK BAAK, Plantation, Production and Political Power: Plantation Devel opment in South-west India in a Long Term Historical Perspective, 1743-1963, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 370 pp. 484-486

V.J. Varghese

Book Reviews: M. MUFAKHARUL ISLAM, Irrigation, Agriculture and the Raj: Punjab, 1887-1947, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, pp. 180 pp. 486-488

David Gilmartin

Book Reviews: S. IRFAN HABIB and DHRUV RAINA, eds, Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 358 pp. 488-490

Nasir Tyabji

Book Reviews: MEENA BHARGAVA, State, Society and Ecology: Gorakhpur in Transition,1750-1830, Delhi, Manohar, 1999,pp. 279 pp. 490-491

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: ARTHUR KLEINMAN, VEENA DAS and MARGARET LOCK, eds, Social Suffering, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 404 pp. 491-494

Suvir Kaul

Book Reviews: GEOFFREY ODDIE, Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal, 1814-1887, Richmond, Curzon Press, 1999, pp. xiv + 261 pp. 494-496

Prabhu Guptara

Volume 37, issue 3, 2000

Language and power in pre-colonial western India: Textual hierarchies, literate audiences and colonial philology pp. 259-294

Veena Naregal

Coping with scarcity: Wild foods and common lands: Kheda district (Gujarat, India), 1824/5 pp. 295-329

Marcia J. Frost

'Beyond the reach of monkeys and men'? O'Shaughnessy and the telegraph in India c. 1836-56 pp. 331-359

Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury

Book Reviews: MATTHEW H. EDNEY, Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843, Chicago/London, University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 458 pp. 361-364

Kapil Raj

Book Reviews: VASANT SABERWAL, Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats and Conservation in the Western Himalaya, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 246 pp. 364-366

Chetan Singh

Book Reviews: ROBERT DELIÈGE, (Nora Scott, tr.), The Untouchables of India, London, Berg, 1999, pp. 229 pp. 366-368

Vijay Prashad

Book Reviews: E.R.HAMBYE, History of Christianity, Volume III, Eighteenth Century, Bangalore, The Christian History Association of India, 1997, pp. 562 pp. 368-371

Suguna Ramanathan

Book Reviews: CHETAN SINGH, Natural Premises: Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalaya, 1800-1950, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 252 pp. 371-372

Nandini Sundar

Book Reviews: TESSA J. BARTHOLOMEUSZ, Women under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, 1994 pp. 372-374

Richard H. Davis

Book Reviews: G. BALACHANDRAN, The Reserve Bank of India, 1951-1967, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 1190 pp. 374-376

Nasir Tyabji

Book Reviews: HOWARD L. TURNER, Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 262 pp. 377-378

Iqbal G. Khan

Book Reviews: GAURI VISWANATHAN, Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity and Belief, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 332 pp. 378-381

Sasheej Hegde

Volume 37, issue 2, 2000

Hindu women, Muslim men: Cleavages in shared spaces of everyday life, United Provinces, c. 1890-1930 pp. 121-149

Charu Gupta

Valorising the 'vulgar': Nationalist appropriations of colloquial Bengali traditions, c. 1870-1905 pp. 151-183

Anindita Ghosh

Science, nationalism, and colonial contestations: P.C. Ray and his Hindu Chemistry pp. 185-213

Pratik Chakraborty

Representing 'his' women: MirzĀ Abū Talib KhĀn's 1801 'Vindication of the liberties of Asiatic women' pp. 215-237

Michael H. Fisher

Book Reviews: PATRICIA JEFFERY and AMRITA BASU, eds, Resisting the Sacred and the Secular: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1999, pp. 276. RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN, ed., Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1999, pp. 381 pp. 239-241

Carol Upadhya

Book Reviews: RADHIKA SINGHA, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998 pp. 241-243

Sandria Freitag

Book Reviews: SUZANNE LEWIS, The Rhetoric of Power in the Bayeux Tapestry, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 169 pp. 244-245

Mani Shekhar Singh

Book Reviews: GEORGE MICHELL and MARK ZEBROWSKI, Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates. The New Cambridge History of India I: 7, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 297 pp. 246-247

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Reviews: S.M. MICHAEL, ed., Dalits in Modern India: Vision and Values, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1999, pp. 355 pp. 247-249

Vijay Prashad

Book Reviews: MEENAKSHI THAPAN, ed., Anthropological Journeys. Reflections on Fieldwork, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1998 pp. 249-251

Roma Chatterji

Book Reviews: Arthur G. Rubinoff, The Construction of a Political Community: Integration and Identity in Goa, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998, pp. 173 pp. 251-253

Rowena Robinson

Book Reviews: RANABIR SAMADDAR, The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998, pp. 227 pp. 253-255

Bidyut Chakrabarty

Book Reviews: BEATRICE VOGT, Skill and Trust: The Tovil Healing Ritual of Sri Lanka as Culture-Specific Psychotherapy, translated from the Dutch by Michael J. Kohn, Sri Lanka Studies no. 6, Amsterdam, VU University Press, 1999, pp. 358 pp. 255-257

Renu Addlakha

Volume 37, issue 1, 2000

Credit, work and race in 1790s Calcutta: Early colonialism through a contemporary European view pp. 1-25

Peter Robb

Smallpox and the impact of vaccination among the Parsees of Bombay pp. 27-50

Jayant Banthia and Tim Dyson

A slave's quest for selfhood in eighteenth-century Hindustan pp. 53-86

Indrani Chatterjee

Book Reviews: MICHAEL R. ANDERSON and SUMIT GUHA, eds, Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 288 pp. 87-88

Nita Kumar

Book Reviews: M. ATHAR ALI, The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 294 pp. 88-91

Munis D. Faruqui

Book Reviews: VÉRONIQUE ROUILLIER, Ascètes et Rois—Un monastère de Kanphata Yogis au Népal, Paris, CNRS Editions, 1997 pp. 91-92

Dominique-Sila Khan

Book Reviews: UMA CHAKRAVARTI, Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1998, pp. 370 pp. 92-94

Rajat Kanta Ray

Book Reviews: CHARLES R. EPP, The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 326; GURPREET MAHAJAN, Identities and Rights: Aspects of Liberal Democracy in India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 190; SATISH SABERWAL and HEIKO SIEVERS, eds, Rules, Laws, Constitutions, New Delhi, Sage, 1998, pp. 289; and STANLEY YEO, Unrestrained Killings and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the Laws of Provocation and Excessive Self-Defence in India, England and Australia, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 210 pp. 94-96

Neera Chandhoke

Book Reviews: V. GEETHA and S.V. RAJADURAI, Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar, Calcutta, Samya, 1998, pp. 556 pp. 97-99

Sumathi Ramaswamy

Book Reviews: IRINA GLUSHKOVA and ANNE FELDHAUS,eds, House and Home in Maharashtra, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 243 pp. 99-102

Aniket Jaaware

Book Reviews: J.S. GREWAL, Contesting Interpretations of the Sikh Tradition, New Delhi, Manohar, 1998, pp. 315 pp. 102-104

J.P.S. Uberoi

Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN, ed., Islam, Communities and the Nation: Muslim Identities in South Asia and Beyond, New Delhi, Manohar, 1998, pp. 530 pp. 104-105

Steven Wilkinson

Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN, ed., Knowledge, Power & Politics—Educational Institutions in India, Delhi, Roli Books: Lotus collection, 1998, pp. 463 pp. 106-107

Suresh Chandra Shukla

Book Reviews: ROGER JEFFERY, ed., The Social Construction of Indian Forests, New Delhi/ Edinburgh, Manohar Publishers, Centre for South Asian Studies, 1998 pp. 108-109

Ann Grodzins Gold

Book Reviews: MARY E. JOHN and JANAKI NAIR, eds, A Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1998, pp. 412 pp. 109-111

Kalpana Viswanath

Book Reviews: OM PRAKASH, European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-colonial India: The New Cambridge History of India, Vol. II (5), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 377 pp. 111-114

Chetan Singh

Book Reviews: SUMATHI RAMASWAMY, Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970, California, University of California Press, 1997, pp. 303 pp. 114-116

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book Reviews: BHARATI RAY and APARNA BASU, eds, From Independence Towards Freedom Since 1947, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 248 pp. 116-118

Kalpana Viswanath

Book Reviews: MRINALINI SINHA, Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1997 pp. 118-119

Susan Visvanathan