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Volume 36, issue 4, 1999

Re-forming the Indian: Treatment regimes in the lunatic asylums of British India, 1857-1880 pp. 407-429

James H. Mills

Coinage, trade and economy in early South India and its Southeast Asian neighbours pp. 431-459

Kenneth R. Hall

Suffragism and internationalism: The enfranchisement of British and Indian women under an imperial state pp. 461-484

Mrinalini Sinha

Book Reviews: GUNNEL CEDERLÖF, Bonds Lost: Subordination, Conflict and Mobilisation in Rural South India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 276 pp. 485-486

A.R. Venkatachalapathy

Book Reviews: SATHIANATHAN CLARKE, Dalits and Christianity: Subaltern Religion and Liberation Theology in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1998, pp. 256. RAYMOND WILLIAMS, Christian Pluralism in the United States, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 315 pp. 486-488

Suguna Ramanathan

Book Reviews: ANTONY COPLEY, Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late Colonial India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 279 pp. 488-490

Meena Radhakrishna

Book Reviews: CHRISTOPHER V. HILL, River of Sorrow: Environment and Social Control in Riparian North India, 1770-1994, Association For Asian Studies, Michigan, 1997, pp. 200 pp. 490-492

Meena Bhargava

Book Reviews: SUBRATA K. MITRA and DIETMAR ROTHERMUND, eds, Legitimacy and Conflict in South Asia, Manohar, New Delhi, pp. 279 pp. 492-494

Sudha Pai

Book Reviews: NARIAKI NAKAZATO, Agrarian System in Eastern Bengal c. 1870-1910, K.P. Bagchi and Company, Calcutta/New Delhi, 1994, pp. 337. CHITTA PANDA, The Decline of the Bengal Zamindars. Midnapore 1870-1920, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 231 pp. 494-497

Alok Sheel

Book Reviews: PETER ROBB, Ancient Rights and Future Comfort in Bihar: The Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 and British Rule in India, Curzon Press, Richmond, 1997, pp. 378 pp. 497-500

B.B. Chaudhuri

Book Reviews: VINAY KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 314 pp. 500-501

Arun Agrawal

Book Reviews: LAKSHMI SUBRAMANIAN, Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 380 pp. 501-503

Asiya Siddiqi

Book Reviews: DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI, Historical Roots of Industrial Entrepreneurship in India and Japan: A Comparative Interpretation, Manohar, New Delhi, 1997, pp. 162 pp. 504-505

Tirthankar Roy

Volume 36, issue 3, 1999

Editors' note: Markets in history—Concepts and outcomes of commercialisation in South Asia pp. 271-273

Jairus Banaji and Tirthankar Roy

Market formation in Khandesh, c. 1820-1930 pp. 275-302

Douglas E. Haynes

Colonial ideologies of the market and famine policy in Ahmednagar district, Bombay Presidency, c. 1870-1884 pp. 303-333

David Hall-Matthews

Weak states and strong markets in South Asian development, c. 1700-1970 pp. 335-353

Sumit Guha

Market success or community failure? Common property resources in colonial north India and a case illustration from a cluster pp. 355-387

Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul

Book Reviews: ARUN BANERJI, Finances in the Early Raj: Investments and the External Sector, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1995, 338 pp pp. 389-391

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: LINDSEY HARLAN and PAUL B. COURTRIGHT, eds, From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion and Culture, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995, 250 pp pp. 391-392

Kumkum Roy

Book Reviews: ANITA RAINA THAPAN, Understanding Ganapati: Insights into the Dynamics of a Cult, New Delhi, Manohar, 1997, 304 pp pp. 393-395

Greg Bailey

Book Reviews: RANABIR SAMADDAR, Memory, Identity, Power: Politics in the Jungle Mahals (West Bengal) 1890-1950, Chennai, Orient Longman, 1998, 290 pp pp. 395-397

Biswamoy Pati

Book Reviews: RALPH SHLOMOWITZ with LANCE BRENNAN and JOHN McDONALD, Mortality and Mi gration in the Modern World, Aldershot, Variorum, 1996, x + 339 pp pp. 397-399

Waltraud Ernst

Book Reviews: SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 400 pp pp. 399-402

Asiya Siddiqi

Short Notices pp. 403-406

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Volume 36, issue 2, 1999

The reinvention of a tradition: Nationalism, Carnatic music and the Madras Music Academy, 1900-1947 pp. 131-163

Lakshmi Subramanian

Slave-queen, waif-prince: Slavery and social capital in eighteenth-century India pp. 165-186

Indrani Chatterjee and Sumit Guha

Making of a popular debate: The Indian Forester and the emerging agenda of state forestry in India, 1875-1904 pp. 187-237

Satpal Sangwan

Artisans and monastic credit in early twentieth century Himachal pp. 239-257

Mahesh Sharma

Book Reviews: Dharma Kumar, Colonialism, Private Property, and the State, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 385 pp. 259-260

David Ludden

Book Reviews: Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 229 pp. 260-263

Nivedita Menon

Book Reviews: Jamal Malik, Colonialization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan, Delhi, Manohar, 1996, pp. 349 pp. 263-265

Nita Kumar

Book Reviews: Adrian Hastings, The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 235 pp. 263-263

T.N. Madan

Book Reviews: Lynette Olson, ed., Religious Change, Conversion and Culture, Sydney, Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, 1996, pp. 273 pp. 265-266

T.N. Madan

Book Reviews: Peter Robb, ed., Meanings of Agriculture, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 389 pp. 266-268

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: Wendy Salmond, The Arts and Crafts in Late Imperial Russia: Reviving the Kustar Art Industries, 1870-1917, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 270 pp. 269-270

Madhavan K. Palat

Volume 36, issue 1, 1999

Transition zones: Changing landscapes and local authority in south-west Bengal, 1880s-1920s pp. 1-34

K. Sivaramakrishnan

Conceiving mobility: Weavers' migrations in pre-colonial and colonial India pp. 35-67

Douglas E. Haynes and Tirthankar Roy

Friday's child: Or how Tej Singh became Tecinkurajan pp. 69-113

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Reviews: RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE and LAKSHMI SUBRAMANIAN, eds, Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 281 pp. 115-119

Dietmar Rothermund

Book Reviews: ZAHEER BABER, The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 298 pp. 119-120

Nasir Tyabji

Book Reviews: RAJEEV BHARGAVA, ed., Secularism and Its Critics, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 562 pp. 120-122

P.K. Dutta

Book Reviews: IAN COPLAND, The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 302 pp. 123-125

Partha Sarathi Gupta

Book Reviews: DIPANKAR GUPTA, Rivalry and Brotherhood: Politics in the Life of Farmers in Northern India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 218 pp. 125-126

Amita Baviskar

Book Reviews: DAMAN SINGH, The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram, New Delhi. Tata Energy Research Institute, 1996, pp. 301 pp. 127-128

Mahesh Rangarajan

Volume 35, issue 4, 1998

Sikka and the crown: Genesis of the Native Coinage Act, 1876 pp. 359-378

Sanjay Garg

Labour unsettled: Mobility and protest in the Madras region, 1750-1800 pp. 381-404

Ravi Ahuja

Trading activities of Indians in East Africa (with special reference to slavery) in the nineteenth century pp. 405-419

N. Benjamin

Bubonic plague in south Bihar: Gaya and Shahabad districts, 1900-1924 pp. 421-442

Alok Sheel

Book Reviews: HENRIETTE BUGGE, Mission and Tamil Society: Social and Religious Change in South India (1840-1900), Surrey, Curzon Press, 1994, in collaboration with Nordisk Institut for Asienstudier (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), Copenhagen, Monograph Series # 65, pp. xiv + 223, Price not mentioned pp. 443-444

Susan Visvanathan

Book Reviews: PARTHA CHATTERJEE, A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 301, Rs. 495. PARTHA CHATTERJEE, The Present History of West Bengal: Essays in Political Criticism, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 223, Rs. 375 pp. 444-445

Partho Datta

Book Reviews: DAVID LUDDEN, ed., Making India Hindu: Religion, Community and the Politics of Democracy in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 346 pp, Rs. 495 pp. 445-447

T.N. Madan

Book Reviews: SHAIL MAYARAM, Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 298, Rs. 475 pp. 447-449

Badri Narayan

Book Reviews: ANTHONY GORDON O'BRIEN, The Ancient Chronology of Thar: The Bhattika, Laukika and Sindh Eras, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 211 + 16 plates and 2 maps, Rs. 450 pp. 449-451

Upinder Singh

Book Reviews: CHRISTOPHER SHACKLE and JAVED MAJEED, Hali's Musaddas: The Flow and Ebb of Islam, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, 262 pp, Rs. 395 pp. 451-455

C.M. Naim

Volume 35, issue 3, 1998

The limited adoption of European-style military forces by eighteenth century rulers in India pp. 229-245

Stewart Gordon

Collective bargaining under the common law tradition in Madras in the interwar period pp. 247-273

M. Lakshmanan

The English doctor in Sri Lanka pp. 275-292

M.M.M. Mahroof

Who was Himmat Bahadur? Gosains, Rajputs and the British in Bundelkhand, ca. 1800 pp. 293-335

William R. Pinch

Book Reviews: G. BALACHANDRAN, John Bullion's Empire: Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars, Curzon Press, Richmond, pp. xii + 252, 1996 pp. 337-339

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: VASUDHA DALMIA, The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra andNineteenth-centuryBanaras, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. xii + 490, Rs 575 pp. 339-341

Nita Kumar

Book Reviews: JOHN KEEGAN, A History of Warfare, Vintage, New York, 1994, pp. xvi + 432, Special Indian Price Rs 400. GEOFFREY PARKER, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp. viii + 408, Special Indian Price Rs 950. CHARLES TOWNSHEND, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997, pp. xii + 354, Price not stated pp. 341-347

Kaushik Roy

Book Reviews: CHARLES MALAMOUD, Cooking the World: Ritual and Thought in Ancient India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, translated from the French by David White (French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society), pp. viii + 354, Rs 550 pp. 347-349

Kumkum Roy

Book Reviews: DESIDERIO PINTO, Piri-Muridi Relationship: A Study of the Nizamuddin Dargah, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1995, pp. vii + 346, Rs 450 pp. 350-351

Meenakshi Khanna

Book Reviews: HARISH C. SHARMA, Artisans of the Punjab: A Study of Social Change in Historical Perspective 1849-1947, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 167 pp. 352-353

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: BRUCE G. TRIGGER and WILCOMB E. WASHBURN, eds, The Cambridge History ofthe Native Peoples of tbe Americas, Volume I, North America, Parts I & II, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. xix + 564 (Part I); pp. xix + 500 (Part II) pp. 353-356

Meena Bhargava

Volume 35, issue 2, 1998

Coastal trade and voyages in Konkan: The early medieval scenario pp. 97-123

Ranabir Chakravarti

Commercialisation of forests, environmental negligence and alienation of tribal rights in Madras Presidency: 1792-1882 pp. 125-146

Velayutham Saravanan

Towards Dussehra 1831: The revolt of Lallaji Patel pp. 147-177

Amar Farooqui

Drawing a line: K. Venkatappa and his publics pp. 179-210

Janaki Nair

Book Reviews: DANIEL BROWN, Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought, Cam bridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. x + 185, £30, $49.95 pp. 211-212

David Gilmartin

Book Reviews: KATE BRITTLEBANK, Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and King ship in a Hindu Domain, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. xxii + 184, Rs 450 pp. 213-214

Michael H. Fisher

Book Reviews: KRISHNA DUTTA and ANDREW ROBINSON (eds), Selected Letters of Rabin dranath Tagore, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997, pp. xxx + 561, Rs 550 pp. 214-216

Sisir Kumar Das

Book Reviews: PIETER GORTER, Small Industrialists, Big Ambitions: Economic and Poli tical Networks on a Large Industrial Estate in West India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 216, Rs 395 pp. 216-219

Gijsbert Oonk

Book Reviews: WILLIAMSON MURRAY and ALAN R. MILLETT (ed.), Military Innovation in the Interwar Period, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1996, pp. ix + 428, £45 pp. 219-221

Kaushik Roy

Book Reviews: SUMIT SARKAR, Writing Social History, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. 390, Rs 495 pp. 222-224

Rajat Kanta Ray

Book Reviews: NANDINI SUNDAR, Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar, 1854-1996, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. 256 Rs 495 pp. 224-226

David Baker

Volume 35, issue 1, 1998

South Asian demographic archaeology and Harappan population estimates: A brief reassessment pp. 1-22

Nayanjot Lahiri

Household size and household structure in western India c. 1700-1950: Beginning an exploration pp. 23-33

Sumit Guha

Approach towards birth control: Indian women in the early twentieth century pp. 35-51

Mausumi Manna

Short-run variation in vital events in Kerala: The role of economic factors pp. 53-68

K.S. James and S. Irudaya Rajan

Understanding pre-transitional fertility in colonial Malabar pp. 69-95

Ravindran Gopinath