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Volume 33, issue 4, 1996

The role of the state in initiating development: A study of interwar South and Southeast Asia pp. 373-401

Tirthankar Roy

The unwanted pregnancy in colonial Bengal1 pp. 403-435

Supriya Guha

Information and incentives: Pringle's Ricardian experiment in the nineteenth-century Deccan countryside pp. 437-457

Neeraj Hatekar

Crowd vigour and social identity: The Quit India Movement in western India pp. 459-479

Shri Krishan

Book Reviews: VASUDHA DALMIA AND HEINRICH VON STIETENCRON, eds, Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious Traditions and National Identity, Sage, New Delhi, 1995, 467 pp., Rs 475/275 pp. 481-483

C.J. Fuller

Book Reviews: SHARADA DWIVEDI AND RAHUL MEHROTRA, Bombay: The Cities Within, India Book House, Bombay, 1995, 336 pp., Rs 1500 pp. 483-484

Narayani Gupta

Book Reviews: CHRISTOPHER R. KING, One Language, Two Scripts: The Hindi Movement in Nineteenth-Century North India, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1994, 232 pp., Rs 375 pp. 484-486

Vir Bharat Talwar

Book Reviews: A.R. KULKARNI, M.A. NAYEEM AND T.R. DE SOUZA, eds, Mediaeval Deccan History: Commemoration Volume in Honour of P. M. Joshi, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1996, xiii + 316 pp., Rs 500 pp. 486-486

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: TIMUR KURAN, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995 pp. 486-487

Bhaskar Dutta

Book Reviews: B.N. NAIDU, Intellectual History of Colonial India, Mysore 1831-1920, Rawat Publications, Jaipur and New Delhi, 1996, 261 pp., Rs 400 pp. 487-488

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: DOUGLAS M. PEERS, Between Mars and Mammon, Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in India, 1819-1835, Tauris Academic Studies, I.B. Tauris Publishers, London, New York, 1995, xxi + 289 pp., £39.50 pp. 488-490

Kaushik Roy

Book Reviews: BRUCE CARLISLE ROBERTSON, Raja Rammohan Roy, The Father of Modern India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 210 pp., Rs 295 pp. 490-492

Amiya P. Sen

Book Reviews: ANAND A. YANG, The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. xii + 271, Rs 185 pp. 493-495

Arun Kumar

Book Reviews: WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL, (ed), Francis Buchanan in Southeast Bengal (1798), Manohar, 1992, pp. xxx + 209, Rs 300 pp. 495-495

Tirthankar Roy

Volume 33, issue 3, 1996

Robes of honour: A 'transactional' kingly ceremony pp. 225-242

Stewart Gordon

British imperium and forested zones of anomaly in Bengal, 1767-1833 pp. 243-282

K. Sivaramakrishnan

Multiple meanings: Changing conceptions of matrilineal kinship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malabar pp. 283-307

G. Arunima

Making the domestic more domestic: Criminal law and the 'head of the household', 1772-1843 pp. 309-343

Radhika Singha

Book Reviews: AMITA BAVISKAR, In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 286 pp., Rs. 475 pp. 345-347

Nandini Sundar

Book Reviews: JOYA CHATTERJI, Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, 303 pp pp. 347-349

Indivar Kamtekar

Book Reviews: EUGENE F. IRSCHICK, Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1994 pp. 349-351

Haruka Yanagisawa

Book Reviews: SHASHI JOSHI, Struggle for Hegemony in India 1920-47. The Colonial State, the Left and the National Movement, Vol. I: 1920-34, Sage, New Delhi, 1992, pp. 376, Rs. 325. BHAGWAN JOSH, Struggle for Hegemony in India. The Colonial State, the Left and the National Movement, Vol. II: 1934-41, Sage, New Delhi, 1992, pp. 331, Rs. 325. SHASHI JOSHI and BHAGWAN JOSH, Struggle for Hegemony in India 1920-47. Culture, Community and Power, Vol. III, Sage, New Delhi, pp. 403, Rs. 375 pp. 351-353

Biswamoy Pati

Book Reviews: RAVI KALIA, Bhubaneswar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City, Delhi, 1994, pp. xx + 236, Rs. 375 pp. 353-355

Narayani Gupta

Book Reviews: IAN J. KERR, Building the Railways of the Raj 1850-1900, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 254 pp., Rs. 395 pp. 355-357

Dilip Simeon

Book Reviews: JOHN KOMLOS, ed., The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History, Boulder, Westview Press, 1995, pp. ix + 225 pp. 357-359

Ralph Shlomowitz

Book Reviews: DAVID LUDDEN, ed., Agricultural Production and Indian History, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, pp. 382, Rs. 395 pp. 359-360

Mahesh Rangarajan

Book Reviews: THOMAS R. METCALF, The New Cambridge History of India III, 4. Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, pp. ix + 244 pp. 360-362

Meena Radhakrishna

Book Reviews: TAZEEN M. MURSHID, The Sacred and the Secular: Bengal Muslim Discourses, 1871-1977, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1995, Rs. 675 pp. 363-365

Gopal Krishna

Book Reviews: JOHN F. RICHARDS, Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India, Variorum, Hampshire/Vermont, 1993 pp. 365-368

Chetan Singh

Book Reviews: PETER ROBB, ed., The Concept of Race in South Asia, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. ix + 354, Rs. 395 pp. 368-370

Andre Beteille

Book Reviews: TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA, ed., Discoveries, Missionary Expansion and Asian Cultures, New Delhi, Concept, 1994 pp. 370-371

Suguna Ramanathan

Volume 33, issue 2, 1996

Australian gold and the finance of India's exports during World War I: A case study of imperial control and coordination pp. 115-131

Andrew Pope

Forest polities and agrarian empires: The Khandesh Bhils,c. 1700-1850 pp. 133-153

Sumit Guha

English private trade on the Coromandel coast, 1660-1690: Diamonds and country trade pp. 155-173

Søren Mentz

Hopes and disillusionment: Recruitment, demobilisation and the emergence of discontent in the Indian armed forces after the Second World War pp. 175-207

Anirudh Deshpande

Book Reviews: ASHIN DASGUPTA, Merchants of Maritime India 1500-1800, Variorium, 1994. SINAPPAH ARASARATNAM, Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century, OUP, 1994. OM PRAKASH, Precious Metals and Commerce. The Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean Trade, Variorium, 1994. SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM (ed.), Money and the Market in India 1100-1700, Oxford in India Readings, OUP, 1994 pp. 209-218

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book Reviews: QEYAMUDDIN AHMAD, The Wahhabi Movement in India. Second Revised Edition, New Delhi, Manohar, 1994 pp. 219-221

Richard M. Eaton

Book Reviews: SEEMA ALAVI, The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770-1830, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, pp. xvi + 315, Rs. 390 pp. 221-223

Michael Fisher

Book Reviews: RALPH RUSSELL, Hidden in the Lane: An Anthology of Two Centuries of Urdu Literature, Delhi, Viking, 1995, pp. 312, Rs. 250 pp. 223-224

Mushirul Hasan

Volume 33, issue 1, 1996

Sanchi: The history of the patronage of an ancient Buddhist establishment pp. 1-35

Upinder Singh

Ecology, land use and colonisation: The canal colonies of Punjab pp. 37-58

Indu Agnihotri

Famines in Kashmir, 1586-1819: The policy of the Mughal and Afghan rulers pp. 59-68

Mushtaq A. Kaw

Marginalisation and appropriation: Jogis, Brahmins and Sidh shrines pp. 73-91

Mahesh Sharma

Secularists, subalterns and the stigma of 'communalism': Partition historiography revisited pp. 93-103

Ayesha Jalal

Book Reviews: SHAHID AMIN, Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, pp. 244 plus bibliography, index pp. 105-106

Majid Siddiqi

Book Reviews: BRAJADULAL CHATROPADHYAYA, The Making of Early Medieval India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1994 pp. 106-108

Richard M. Eaton

Book Reviews: FATIMA DA SILVA GRACIAS, Health and Hygiene in Colonial Goa (1510-1961), Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1994, pp. 300, Rs. 450 pp. 108-111

Mariam Dossal

Book Reviews: ARUN MUKHERJEE, Crime and Public Disorder in Colonial Bengal 1861-1912, K.P. Bagchi and Co., Calcutta, pp. 320, Rs. 250 pp. 111-112

Joya Chatterji

Book Reviews: G. THIMMAIAH, Power Politics and Social Justice: Backward Castes in Karnataka, Sage Publications, 1993, pp. 203, Rs. 225 pp. 113-113

Dharma Kumar

Volume 32, issue 4, 1995

The Islamic state as telos: Mumtaz Shah Nawaz's narrative of Pakistan and modernity pp. 413-427

David Willmer

Peasant mobilisation, political organisations and modes of interaction: The Bombay countryside 1934-1941 pp. 429-446

Shri Krishan

Opium enterprise and colonial intervention in Malwa and western India, 1800-1824 pp. 447-473

Amar Farooqui

The persecution of Ramanuja: A view from the Srirangam temple complex pp. 475-487

A. Srivathsan

Book Reviews: DAVID ARNOLD and RAMACHANDRA GUHA, eds., Nature, Culture and Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 376 pp., Rs 495 pp. 489-490

Mahesh Rangarajan

Book Reviews: SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM (ed.), Money and the Market in India 1100-1700, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, Rs 300 pp. 491-493

H.W. van Santen

Book Reviews: HIMANSHU P. RAY, The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia, OUP, Delhi, 1994, x + 234 pp., Rs 350 pp. 493-495

Upinder Singh

Book Reviews: J.E. LLEWELLYN, The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement: A Study in Comparative Fundamentalism, Manohar, New Delhi, 1993, xii + 288 pp., Rs 350 pp. 495-496

T.N. Madan

Book Reviews: RAJNARAYAN CHANDAVARKAR, The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940, Foundation Books, New Delhi, 1994, xviii + 468 pp., Rs 450 pp. 497-499

Douglas E. Haynes

Volume 32, issue 3, 1995

The killing of Bala Shah and the birth of Valmiki: Hinduisation and the politics of religion pp. 287-325

Vijay Prashad

Old wine in new bottles? Kartabhaja (Vaishnava) converts to Evangelical Christianity in Bengal, 1835-1845 pp. 327-343

Geoffrey A. Oddie

The dreaded Danteswari: Annals of alleged sacrifice pp. 345-374

Nandini Sundar

The Reang rebellion in Tripura, 1943-45 and the birth of an ethnic identity pp. 375-390

Harihar Bhattacharyya

Book Reviews: MiR AMMAN, A Tale of Four Dervishes, translated from Urdu with an introduction by Mohammed Zakir, Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 1994, xvi + 158 pp., Rs 100 pp. 391-392

Mushirul Hasan

Book Reviews: DAVID ARNOLD and DAVID HARDIMAN, eds., Subaltern Studies VIII: Essays in honour of Ranajit Guha, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, ix + 240 pp., Rs 340 pp. 392-394

Dilip M. Menon

Book Reviews: PREM CHOWDHRY, The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana 1880-1990, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, 461 pp., Rs 475 pp. 394-396

G. Arunima

Book Reviews: JOHN CROOK and HENRY OSMASTON, eds, Himalayan Buddhist Villages. Environment, Resources, Society and Religious Life in Zangskar, Ladakh, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, 1994, xxx + 866 pp., 115 illustrations, Rs 800 pp. 396-398

Janet Rizvi

Book Reviews: KAMALA GANESH, Boundary Walls: Caste and Women in a Tamil Com munity, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Delhi, 1993, xvi + 182 pp pp. 398-399

C.J. Fuller

Book Reviews: MARK HARRISON, Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914, Cambridge History of Medicine Series, Cam bridge University Press, 1994, xix + 324 pp., £19.95. DAVID ARNOLD, Colonising the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1993, xii + 354 pp., Rs 390 pp. 399-402

V.R. Muraleedharan

Book Reviews: JOHN HALDON, The State and the Tributary Mode of Production, Verso, London and New York, 1993, x + 339 pp pp. 402-404

Harbans Mukhia

Book Reviews: MARK JUERGENSMEYER, Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994, xiv + 292, pp. index and biblio, Rs 300 pp. 404-406

Dipankar Gupta

Book Reviews: DILIP M. MENON, Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India. Malabar, 1900-1948, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, 209 pp., Rs 295 pp. 406-407

Robin Jeffrey

Book Reviews: UPINDER SINGH, Kings, Brahmanas and Temples in Orissa. An Epigraphic Study AD 300-1147, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd, Delhi, 1994, 370 pp., Rs 300 pp. 407-409

Nayanjot Lahiri

Book Reviews: SUSAN VISHVANATHAN, The Christians of Kerala, Oxford University Press, Madras, 1993 pp. 410-411

Suguna Ramanathan

Volume 32, issue 2, 1995

Honour in chains: The problem of hitti-bitti-chakri in jamma tenure in Coorg, 1800-1930 pp. 135-153

T.P. Vijaya

Constructing a plantation labour force: The plantation-village nexus in south India pp. 155-176

Barbara Evans

The politics of fiscal decline: A reconsideration of Maratha Tanjavur, 1676-1799 pp. 177-217

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

India's history revealed in a dream pp. 219-244

Bhudev Mukhopadhyay

A permanent settlement for the Ceded and Conquered provinces: Revenue administration in north India, 1801-1833 pp. 245-269

Michael Mann

Book Reviews: IQBAL HUSAIN, The Rise and Decline of the Ruhela Chieftaincies in 18th Century India, Oxford University Press, 1995, 253 pp., Rs 250 pp. 271-273

Seema Alavi

Book Reviews: AJIT K. DASGUPTA, A History of Indian Economic Thought, Routledge, London and New York, 1993, xii + 206 pp., Rs 400 pp. 273-274

S. Ambirajan

Book Reviews: CLIVE DEWEY, Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Civil Service, Hambledon Press, London, 1993, xxvi + 292 pp., price not stated pp. 274-276

Ramachandra Guha

Book Reviews: ROSALIND O'HANLON, A Comparison between Women and Men: Tarabai Shinde and the Critique of Gender Relations in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, Madras, 1994, 147 pp., Rs 200 pp. 276-278

Meera Kosambi

Book Reviews: MINTURN LEIGH, Sita's Daughters: Coming Out of Purdah, Oxford Univer sity Press, New York, 1993, 371 pp., price not stated (special Indian price Rs 395) pp. 279-280

Meera Kosambi

Book Reviews: GYAN PRAKASH, Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, xvi + 250 pp., Cambridge South Asian Studies No. 44 pp. 280-284

Jacques Pouchepadass

Book Reviews: WALTER HAUSER, ed., Sahajanand on Agricultural Labour and the Rural Poor, Manohar Publications, Delhi, 1994, xviii + 239 pp pp. 284-285

Majid H. Siddiqi

Volume 32, issue 1, 1995

British steamshipping and the Indian coastal trade, 1870-1915 pp. 1-21

Andrew Pope

Public sector investment and technology choice in the transportation industry in Madras pp. 23-49

Nasir Tyabji

Migration in eastern India: A segmented labour market pp. 51-93

Arjan de Haan

Bhadralok perceptions of science, technology and cultural nationalism pp. 95-117

Dhruv Raina and S. Irfan Habib

Book Reviews: JOHN R. McLANE, Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Cambridge University Press, 1993 pp. 119-121

Radhika Singha

Book Reviews: HARJOT OBEROI, The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition. Delhi, 1994, xxii + 494 pp., Rs 475 pp. 121-123

T.N. Madan

Book Reviews: BISWAMOY PATI, Resisting Domination: Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement in Orissa 1920-50, Manohar 1993 pp. 123-125

Rohan D'Souza

Book Reviews: VELCHERU NARAYANA RAO, DAVID SHULMAN, SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1992. NOBORU KARASHIMA, Towards a New Formation: South Indian Society under Vijayanagara Rule, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1992 pp. 125-128

Dilip M. Menon

Book Reviews: VEENA SACHDEVA, Polity and Economy of the Punjab during the Late- Eighteenth Century, Manohar, 1993, xi + 229 pp., Rs 200 pp. 129-130

Meena Bhargava

Book Reviews: MANISHA ROY, Bengali Women, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992, 213 pp pp. 130-131

Mukul Mukherjee

Book Reviews: CHITRA SIVA KUMAR and S. SIVA KUMAR, Peasants and Nabobs: Agrarian Radicalism in Late Eighteenth Century Tamil Country, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Delhi, 1993, xii + 110 pp pp. 131-132

M. Atchi Reddy