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Volume 34, issue 4, 1997

State, forests and graziers in the hills of Uttar Pradesh: Impact of colonial forestry on peasants, Gujars and Bhotiyas pp. 405-435

Dhirendra Datt Dangwal

Capitalism and community: A study of the Madurai Sourashtras pp. 437-463

Tirthankar Roy

Bureaucratic agendas and conservation policy in Himachal Pradesh, 1865-1994 pp. 465-498

Vasant K. Saberwal

Book Reviews: DAVID CHANDLER (General Editor), Ian Beckett (Associate Editor), The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army, Oxford, 1994 pp. 499-500

Kaushik Roy

Book Reviews: KUMKUM CHATTERJEE, Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India Bihar: 1733-1820, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1996, pp. 273 pp. 501-503

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book Reviews: GERALDINE FORBES, Women in Modern India, in New Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV, 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 289, price not mentioned; KUMARI JAYAVARDENA and MALATHI DE ALWIS (eds), Embodied Violence: Communalising Women's Sexuality in South Asia, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 299, Rs 325; DAGMAR ENGELS, Beyond Purdah? Women in Bengal 1890-1939, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 282, Rs 450 pp. 503-505

Rajat Kanta Ray

Book Reviews: WILLIAM R. PINCH, Peasants and Monks in British India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 242, Rs 395 pp. 506-507

Seema Alavi

Book Reviews: AMIYA P. SEN, Hindu Revivalism in Bengal 1872-1905: Some Essays in Interpretation, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1993, pp. xiii + 456 pp. 507-510

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

Book Reviews: M.N. SRINIVAS, Indian Society through Personal Writings, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996. pp. 245, Rs 395. M.N. SRINIVAS, Village, Caste, Gender and Method: Essays in Indian Social Anthropology, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 244, Rs 395 pp. 510-513

Ghanshyam Shah

Book Reviews: H. YANAGISAWA, A Century of Change: Caste and Irrigated Lands in Tamil Nadu 1860s-1970s, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1996, pp. 337, Rs 450 pp. 513-514

Dharma Kumar

Short Notices pp. 515-516

N/a

Volume 34, issue 3, 1997

Textiles, bullion and other trades of Goa: Commerce with Surat, other areas of India, Luso-Brazilian ports, Macau and Mozambique, 1816-1819 pp. 275-287

Rudy Bauss

A matter of two shares: A daughter's claim to patrilineal property in rural north India pp. 289-320

Prem Chowdhry

Recruitment doctrines of the colonial Indian Army: 1859-1913 pp. 321-354

Kaushik Roy

Between power and 'purdah': The white woman in British India, 1858-1900 pp. 355-376

Indrani Sen

Book Reviews: JAN BREMAN, Footloose Labour, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 278 pp pp. 377-379

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: SUSHIL CHAUDHURY, From Prosperity to Decline: Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Manohar, Delhi,1995, 377 pp., Rs 500 pp. 379-382

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book Reviews: SATISH CHANDRA, Historiography, Religion and State in Medieval India, Har Anand Publications, Delhi, 1996, 240 pp., Rs 295 pp. 379-379

Shalin Jain

Book Reviews: Jos J.L. GOMMANS, The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, C 1710-1780, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1995, xvii + 219 pp pp. 382-384

Kaushik Roy

Book Reviews: MICHAEL H. FISHER, The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, xviii + 368 pp., Rs 425 pp. 385-387

Indrani Chatterjee

Book Reviews: JACK GOODY, The East in the West, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, x + 295 pp pp. 387-389

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: RICHARD SAUMAREZ SMITH, Rule by Records: Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Panjab, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, Rs 695 pp. 389-391

Minoti Chakravarty Kaul

Book Reviews: TESSIE P. LIU, The Weaver's Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750-1914, Cornell Univer sity Press, Ithaca, 1994, xiv + 279 pp., $46.75 (c), $19.75 (pb) pp. 391-393

G. Balachandran

Book Reviews: D.A. Low, The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa 1950-1980, Cam bridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, 145 pp pp. 393-394

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: GEOFFREY A. ODDIE, Popular Religion, Elites and Reform: Hook-Swinging and its Prohibition in Colonial India, 1800-1894, Manohar Publica tions, Delhi, 1995, 210 pp., Rs 300 pp. 394-395

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: DAVID SHULMAN, ed., Syllables of Sky: Studies in South Indian Civilization in Honour of Velcheru Narayana Rao, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, xi + 478 pp., Rs 525 pp. 395-397

C.J. Fuller

Book Reviews: DILIP SIMEON, The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928-1939, Manohar, Delhi, 1995, 398 pp., Rs 450 pp. 397-400

Sumit Sarkar

Book Reviews: NASIR TYABJI, Colonialism, Chemical Technology and Industry in Southern India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, ix + 242 pp pp. 400-403

Deepak Kumar

Volume 34, issue 2, 1997

Revised estimates of the national income of India, 1900-1901 to 1946-47 pp. 113-168

S. Sivasubramonian

Mughal state formation: The Mewati counter-perspective pp. 169-197

Shail Mayaram

A demographic study of Portuguese India and Macau as well as comments on Mozambique and Timor, 1750-1850 pp. 199-216

Rudy Bauss

The strength of a scientific culture: Interpreting disorder in colonial science pp. 217-250

Satpal Sangwan

Book Reviews: S.B. CooK, Imperial Affinities: Nineteenth Century Analogies and Exchanges between India and Ireland, Sage, New Delhi, 1993, 162 pp., Rs 195 pp. 251-252

S. Ambirajan

Book Reviews: PETER WARD FAY, The Forgotten Army, India's Armed Struggle for Inde pendence, 1942-45, Rupa, by arrangement with the University of Michigan, New Delhi, 1994, ix + 573 pp., Rs 295 pp. 253-254

Kaushik Roy

Book Reviews: K.S. MATHEW, ed., Mariners, Merchants and Oceans: Studies in, Maritime History, Manohar, Delhi, 1995, Rs 425 pp. 254-256

Lakshmi Subramaniam

Book Reviews: SHIREEN MOOSVI, Episodes in the Life of Akbar: Contemporary Records and Reminiscences, National Book Trust, New Delhi, 1994, xv + 133 pp., 9 reproductions, Rs 45 pp. 257-258

Tasneem Suhrawardy

Book Reviews: RAJAT K. RAY, ed., Mind, Body and Society: Life and Mentality in Colonial Bengal, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1995, 486 pp., Rs 575 pp. 258-260

Swaraj Basu

Book Reviews: BRIAN ROBSON, ed., Roberts in India, The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893, Alan Sutton for the Army Records Society, UK, USA, 1993, xxviii + 478 pp., £40 pp. 260-262

Kaushik Roy

Book Reviews: KUMKUM ROY, Emergence of Monarchy in North India, Eighth-Fourth Centuries BC: As Reflected in the Brahmanical Tradition, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, xii + 344 pp., Rs 450 pp. 262-264

Nayanjot Lahiri

Book Reviews: YUNUS SAMAD, A Nation in Turmoil, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Pakistan 1937-1958, Sage, Delhi, 1995, 232 pp., Rs 165 pp. 264-266

Neera Chandhoke

Book Reviews: ANURADHA SENEVIRATNA, ed., King Aśoka and Buddhism: Historical and Literary Studies, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, 1994, xi + 161 pp pp. 267-268

Nayanjot Lahiri

Book Reviews: A.R. VENKATACHALAPATHY, ed., Bharatiyin Karutthuppadangal India, 1906-1910, Narmada Pathippakam, Madras, 1994, 209 pp., Rs 50 pp. 269-270

S. Ambirajan

Letter to the Editor from Professor Dilip Simeon pp. 271-272

Dilip Simeon

Reply from Dr Vinay Bahl pp. 273-274

Vinay Bahl

Volume 34, issue 1, 1997

Muttahidah qaumiyat in aqalliat Bihar: The Imarat i Shariah, 1921-1947 pp. 1-20

Papiya Ghosh

The museumised relic: Archaeology and the first museum of colonial India pp. 21-51

Tapati Guha-Thakurta

Domesticating the novel: Society and culture in inter-War Tamil Nadu pp. 53-67

A.R. Venkatachalapathy

Intransigent shroffs and the English East India Company's currency reforms in Bengal, 1757-1800 pp. 69-94

Shubhra Chakrabarti

Book Reviews: NIGEL CROOK, India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1993, pp. vi + 181, Rs 240 pp. 95-96

Nasir Tyabji

Book Reviews: WALTER HAUSER, ed., Swami Sahajanand and the Peasants of Jharkhand: A View from 1941, Manohar, 1995 pp. xxiii + 369. Map, Rs 450 pp. 97-98

N/a

Book Reviews: C.G. HENNING, The Indentured Indian in Natal (1860-1917), Promilla and Co., New Delhi, 1993, pp. 242, Rs 600 pp. 99-101

Rana P. Behal

Book Reviews: JEFFREY J. KRIPAL, Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1995, pp. 386 pp. 101-104

Rajat Ray

Book Reviews: HERMANN KULKE, ed., The State in India, 1000-1700, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995. pp. x + 367, Rs 450 pp. 104-106

Chetan Singh

Book Reviews: FELIX PADEL The Sacrifice of Human Being: British Rule and the Khonds of Orissa, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 428, Rs 595 pp. 106-109

Savyasachi

Book Reviews: M. ATCHI REDDY, Lands and Tenants in South India: A Study of Nellore District 1850-1990, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996, pp. 215, Rs 345 pp. 109-111

Sumit Guha