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Volume 31, issue 4, 1994

The emergence of large-scale steel industry in India under British colonial rule, 1880-1907 pp. 413-460

Vinay Bahl

Foreign trade and the artisans in colonial India: A study of leather pp. 461-490

Tirthankar Roy

Imperialism, ecology and disease: Cholera in India, 1850-1950 pp. 491-518

Ira Klein

Theatre state or box office state? A note on the political economy of eighteenth century India pp. 519-524

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: CATHERINE B. ASHER, The New Cambridge History of India, I: 4, Architec ture of Mughal India, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, xxxi + 368 pp. Illustrations: 226 Black and White Plates; Bibliogra phical essay pp. 525-526

Nuzhat Kazmi

Book Reviews: MILO CLEVELAND BEACH, The New Cambridge History of India, I: 3, Mughal and Rajput Painting, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, xxxi + 252 pp. Illustrations: 179 Black and White Plates; 16 Colour Plates; Bibliographical essay pp. 526-529

Nuzhat Kazmi

Book Reviews: SURENDRA BHANA, Indentured Indian Emigrants to Natal, 1860-1902: A Study Based on Ships' Lists, Promilla & Co., New Delhi, 1991 pp. 529-530

Rana P. Behal

Book Reviews: SUGATA BOSE, Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital. Rural Bengal since 1770 (The New Cambridge History of India), Foundation Books, Delhi, 1993, xvi + 203 pp., Rs 275 pp. 531-533

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: V.D. DIVEKAR, South India in 1857: War of Independence, Lokamanya Tilak Smarak Trust, Pune, 1993, xv + 412 pp., Rs 300 pp. 533-534

D. Veeraraghavan

Book Reviews: FREDERICK S. DOWNS, North East India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: History of Christianity in India, Vol. V, Part V, CHAI, Bangalore, 1992 pp. 534-535

Susan Visvanathan

Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN AND NARAYANI GUPTA, eds, India's Colonial Encounter: Essays in Memory of Eric Stokes, Manohar, Delhi, 1993, 412 pp pp. 535-538

Douglas E. Haynes

Book Reviews: T.S. MAXWELL, ed., Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 1992, 252 + xii pp., plates 80, Rs 415 pp. 538-539

Himanshu Prabha Ray

ADRIAN SEVER, Nepal under the Ranas, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi, 1993, x + 506 pp., Rs 950 pp. 540-541

Pratyoush R. Onta

Volume 31, issue 3, 1994

Political intermediaries in Kakatiya Andhra, 1175-1325 pp. 261-289

Cynthia Talbot

Reordering the earth: The emergence of geology as a scientific discipline in colonial India pp. 291-310

Satpal Sangwan

The East India Company's 'suppression of the native dak' pp. 311-348

Michael H. Fisher

From alienation to integration: Changes in the politics of caste in Bengal, 1937-47 pp. 349-391

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

Book Reviews: BASUDEV CHATTERJI, Trade, Tariffs, and Empire: Lancashire and British Policy in India, 1919-1939, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992, xiv + 521 pp., Rs. 490 pp. 393-394

G. Balachandran

Book Reviews: TAPATI CUHA-THAKURTA, The Making of a New 'Indian' Art. Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal c. 1850-1920, Cambridge Uni versity Press, Cambridge, 1992, 352 pp., 96 Illustrations, Rs. 595 pp. 394-396

Samita Gupta

Book Reviews: ALF HILTEBEITEL, ed., Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism, Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1990, xii + 491 pp. + Index, Rs. 400 pp. 396-397

T.N. Madan

Book Reviews: S.R.B. LEADBEATER, The Politics of Textiles: The Indian Cotton-Mill Industry and the Legacy of Swadeshi, 1900-1985, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1993, 312 pp., Rs. 285 pp. 397-398

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: R.S. McGREGOR, ed., Devotional Literature in South Asia. Current Research, 1985-1988 (Papers of the Fourth Conference on Devotional Liter ature in New Indo-Aryan Languages, held at Wolfson College, Cam bridge,1-4 September 1988),Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, xvi + 322 pp pp. 399-400

Timothy Raeside

Book Reviews: PARSHOTAM MEHRA, An 'Agreed' Frontier: Ladakh and India's Northern- most Borders, 1846-1947, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1992, xii + 248 pp., Rs. 300 pp. 400-402

Janet Rizvi

Book Reviews: GEOFFREY A. ODDIE, Hindu and Christian in South-east India (London Studies on South Asia No. 6), Curzon Press, London, 1991, x + 280 pp pp. 402-404

C.J. Fuller

Book Reviews: DIETMAR ROTHERMUND, India in the Great Depression, 1929-1939, Manohar Publications, Delhi, 1992; xiii + 292 pp., Rs. 300 pp. 404-405

G. Balachandran

Book Reviews: SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History, Longman, London and New York, 1993, xiii + 320 pp., glossary, bibliography, index, maps pp. 405-407

Anthony Disney

Book Reviews: ELEANOR ZELLIOT, From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1992, 350 pp., Rs. 320 pp. 408-410

P. Radhakrishnan

Volume 31, issue 2, 1994

West Africa and the Pondicherry textile industry pp. 117-145

Richard Roberts

Imperial agendas and India's forests: The early history of Indian forestry, 1800-1878 pp. 147-167

Mahesh Rangarajan

The demography of the Bengal famine of 1943-44: A detailed study pp. 169-215

Arup Maharatna

Peasant class assertions in Nalgonda and Warangal districts of Telangana, 1930-1946 pp. 217-237

I. Thirumali

Book Reviews: INDU BANGA, ed., Ports and Their Hinterlands in India 1700-1950, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 1992 pp. 239-241

Ruchira Banerjee

Book Reviews: V. BEGLEY and R.D. DE PUMA, eds., Rome and India—The Ancient Sea Trade, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992, 266 + xix pp., Rs. 800 pp. 241-243

Himanshu Prabha Ray

Book Reviews: PAUL R. BRASS, Ethnicity and Nationalism (Theory and Comparison), Sage, 1991, 358 pp., Rs. 280 pp. 243-244

Bishnu N. Mohapatra

Book Reviews: VASUDHA DHAGAMWAR, Law, Power and Justice: The Protection of Per sonal Rights in the Indian Penal Code, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1992, 392 pp., Rs. 150 pp. 244-246

Indrani Chatterjee

Book Reviews: JEAN DRÈZE and AMARTYA SEN, eds., The Political Economy of Hunger, Volume 3, 1991, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 385 pp., Rs. 400 pp. 247-249

Arup Mitra

Book Reviews: NAIMUR RAHMAN FAROOQI, Mughal-Ottoman Relations: A Study of the Political and Diplomatic Relations between Mughal India and the Ottoman Empire, 1556-1748, Delhi, Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1989, xii + 264 pp., Rs. 175 pp. 249-251

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Reviews: JOHN FFORDE, The Bank of England and Public Policy 1941-1958, Cam bridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, xx + 861 pp pp. 251-252

G. Balachandran

Book Reviews: JAMES F. FISHER, Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1990, xxv + 205 pp., Rs. 275 pp. 252-254

Pratyoush R. Onta

Book Reviews: DOUGLAS HAYNES and GYAN PRAKASH, eds., Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1991, 307 pp pp. 254-257

Rana P. Behal

Book Reviews: B.R. TOMLINSON, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970, Cambridge University Press, Foundation Books, New Delhi, 1993,235 pp., Rs. 325 pp. 257-259

Tirthankar Roy

Volume 31, issue 1, 1994

The 'discovery' of malnutrition and diet in colonial India pp. 1-26

David Arnold

The trans-Karakoram trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries pp. 27-64

Janet Rizvi

The western Indian Ocean and the early maritime links of the Indian subcontinent pp. 65-88

Himanshu Prabha Ray

The social role of a caste association pp. 89-100

Sibsankar Mukherjee

Book Reviews: ARUN BANDOPADHYAY, The Agrarian Economy of Tamil Nadu, 1820-1855, K.P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1992, Rs. 250 pp. 101-103

G.N. Rao

Book Reviews: P.K. BARDHAN ed., Conversations Between Economists and Anthropo logists: Methodological Issues in Measuring Economic Change in Rural India, Delhi, OUP, 1989 pp. 103-104

Jean Drèze

Book Reviews: SUDHIR CHANDRA, The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Conscious ness in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, 1992 pp. 105-107

Meenakshi Mukherjee

Book Reviews: BASUDEB CHATTOPADHYAY, HARI S. VASUDEVAN and RAJAT KANTA RAY eds., Dissent and Consensus: Social Protest in Pre-Industrial Societies, K.P. Bagchi & Co., Calcutta, 1989, 299 pp., Rs. 180 pp. 107-108

Partho Datta

Book Reviews: NICHOLAS B. DIRKS, The Hollow Crown, Ethnohistory of an Indian King dom,1987, CUP. 406 pp. plus appendix pp. 108-110

Majid H. Siddiqi

Book Reviews: THOMAS PANTHAM and KENNETH L. DEUTSCH eds., Political Thought in Modern India, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1986, pp. 362, Rs. 175 pp. 110-111

Gurpreet Mahajan

Book Reviews: M.S.S. PANDIAN, The Image Trap: M.G. Ramachandran in Film and Politics, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1992, 166 pp., Rs. 190 (hb), Rs. 85 (pb) pp. 112-113

Ravi Vasudevan

Book Reviews: H. VAN WERSCH, Bombay Textile Strike 1982-83, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1992, xxiv + 463, Rs. 450 pp. 114-115

Tirthankar Roy