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Volume 30, issue 4, 1993

Idioms of authority and engendered agendas: The Satnami Mahasabha,, Chhattisgarh, 1925-1950 pp. 383-411

Saurabh Dube

England and India: The Ilbert Bill, 1883: A case study of the metropolitan press pp. 413-436

Chandrika Kaul

The makings of Company power: James Skinner in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces, 1802-1840 pp. 437-466

Seema Alavi

The 1947 united Bengal movement: A thesis without a synthesis pp. 467-488

Bidyut Chakrabarty

Book Reviews: DAVID N. GELLNER, Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest, Newar Bud dhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual, Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 428 pp pp. 489-491

Veronique Bouillier

Book Reviews: OMKAR GOSWAMI, Industry, Trade, and Peasant Society: The Jute Economy of Eastern India, 1900-1947, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991, xxi + 283 pp., Rs. 225 pp. 491-493

Morris David Morris

Book Reviews: DONALD F. MILLER, The Reason of Metaphor: A Study in Politics, Sage, New Delhi, 1992, 268 pp., Rs. 250 pp. 493-495

Rabindra Ray

Book Reviews: HELENA NORBERG-HODGE, Ancient Futures—Learning from Ladakh, Oxford University Press, 1992, Rs. 150 pp. 495-496

Janet Rizvi

Book Reviews: GEORGE ROSEN, Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992, xiii + 168 pp pp. 496-498

Tirthankar Roy

Book Reviews: ANDRÉ WINK, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Vol. I, Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam (7th-11th Centuries), E.J. Brill and OUP, Leiden and New Delhi, 1990, 396 pp.., Rs. 300 pp. 498-502

B.D. Chattopadhyaya

Volume 30, issue 3, 1993

Production regimes, cultural processes: Industrial labour in Mysore pp. 261-281

Janaki Nair

Collaboration and conflict: Bankers and early colonial rule in India: 1757-1813 pp. 283-310

Kumkum Chatterjee

The great TISCO strike and lockout of 1928, Part 2: The enigmatic settlement and its aftermath pp. 311-335

Dilip Simeon

The 1837-38 famine in U.P.: Some dimensions of popular action pp. 337-372

Sanjay Sharma

Book Reviews: J.S. GREWAL, The New Cambridge History of India, II. 3, The Sikhs of the Punjab, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, XXV + 264 pp pp. 373-375

Andrew J. Major

Book Reviews: ROSIE LLEWELLYN JONES, A Very Ingenious Man: Claude Martin in Early Colonial India, OUP, Delhi, 1992, 241 pp., Rs. 325 pp. 375-376

Seema Alavi

Book Reviews: JOHN J. PAUL, The Legal Profession in Colonial South India, OUP, Bombay, 1989, 265 pp., Rs. 250 pp. 376-377

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: RODERICH PLAK and DIETMAR ROTHERMUND eds., Emporia, Commodities and Entrepreneurs in Asian Maritime Trade c. 1400-1750, STEINER VERLAG, 1991, 509 pp pp. 377-379

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book Reviews: BIPAN CHANDRA ed., Ranade's Economic Writings, Gian Publishing House, New Delhi, 1990, XC + 460 pp., Rs. 450 pp. 379-381

S. Ambirajan

Volume 30, issue 2, 1993

The great TISCO strike and lockout of 1928-Part 1 pp. 135-161

Dilip Simeon

Money supply and asset choice in inter-war India pp. 163-180

Tirthankar Roy

The privilege of taking life: Some 'anomalies' in the law of homicide in the Bengal Presidency pp. 181-214

Radhika Singha

Perception and classification of the rights of the social classes: Gorakhpur and the East India Company in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries pp. 215-237

Meena Bhargava

Book Reviews: SARAH F.D. ANSARI, Sufi Saints and. State Power: The Pirs of Sind, 1843-1947, Cambridge University Press, Delhi, 1992 pp. 239-240

Seema Alavi

Book Reviews: A.G. CHANDAVARKAR, Keynes and India: A Study in Economics and Biography, Macmillan, London, 1989, xiv + 209 pp pp. 241-243

G. Balachandran

Book Reviews: MICHAEL H. FISHER, Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764-1858, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1991, 515 pp., Rs. 325 pp. 243-245

Mani Kamerkar

Book Reviews: OLIVIER GUILLAUME, Analysis of Reasonings in Archaeology: The case of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Numismatics, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1990, 133 pp., Rs. 125 pp. 245-248

Nayanjot Lahiri

Book Reviews: OLIVIER GUILLAUME, edited and compiled, Graeco-Bactrian and Indian Coins from Afghanistan, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991, xiv + 199 pp., Rs. 140 pp. 248-250

Nayanjot Lahiri

Book Reviews: GARLAND CANNON, The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones, Cambridge University Press, 1990, xix + 409 pp pp. 250-252

O.P. Kejariwal

Book Reviews: RUBY MALONI, European Merchant Capital and the Indian Economy: A Historical Reconstruction Based on Surat Factory Records 1630-1688, Manohar Publications, Delhi, 1992, xii+463 pp., Rs. 320 pp. 252-253

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: B. JANARDHAN RAO, Land Alienation in Tribal Areas, Kakatiya School of Public Administration, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 1987, viii + 336 pp., Rs. 100 pp. 253-254

I. Thirumali

Book Reviews: CHANDI PRASAD SARKAR, The Bengali Muslims: A Study in Their Politic ization (1912-1929), K.P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1991, 273 pp., Rs. 200 pp. 254-256

Swaraj Basu

Book Reviews: MEENAKSHI THAPAN, Life at School: An Ethnographic Study, Oxford Uni versity Press, Delhi, 1991, viii + 271 pp., Rs. 250 pp. 256-258

Alka Malvankar

Book Reviews: DEBAL K. SINGHA RoY, Women in Peasant Movements-Tebhaga, Naxalite and After, Manohar, 1992, 158 pp., Rs. 175 pp. 258-259

Virginius Xaxa

A Clarification pp. 260-260

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Volume 30, issue 1, 1993

The handloom industry and its market structure: The case of the Madras Presidency in the first half of the twentieth century pp. 1-27

Haruka Yanagisawa

Theory and practice of town planning in Calcutta, 1817 to 1912: An appraisal pp. 29-55

Samita Gupta

Strikes in the greater Calcutta region 1918-1924 pp. 57-84

Partho Datta

South Bihar geography and the agricultural cycle: Gaya and Shahabad in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries pp. 85-113

Alok Sheel

Book Reviews: WALTER K. ANDERSON and SHRIDHAR D. DAMLE, The Brotherhood in Saffron. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism, Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 1987, 317 pp., Rs. 225 pp. 115-116

Meenakshi Thapan

Book Reviews: SUGATA BosE, ed., South Asia and World Capitalism, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1990, xii + 405 pp., Rs. 325 pp. 116-118

Rajat Kanta Ray

Book Reviews: AYESHA JALAL, The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, Sydney, 1990, xiv + 362 pp pp. 118-120

S.D. Muni

Book Reviews: N. LAHIRI, The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (up to c. 200 BC), Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992, 461 pp., Rs. 450 pp. 120-122

Himanshu Prabha Ray

Book Reviews: D.A. Low, Eclipse of Empire, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991, 375 pp., n.p pp. 122-124

David Baker

Book Reviews: PETER REEVES, Landlords and Governments in Uttar Pradesh. A Study of their Relations until Zamindari Abolition, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1991, xiv + 359 pp., Rs. 325 pp. 124-126

Sanjay Sharma

Book Reviews: GHANSHYAM SHAH, ed., Capitalist Development: Critical Essays, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1990, xi + 411 pp., Rs. 450 pp. 126-128

Ashis Banerjee

Book Reviews: SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India 1500-1650, Cambridge University Press, 1990 pp. 128-132

Neils Steensgaard

Book Reviews: WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL, Three Deltas: Accumulation and Poverty in Rural Burma, Bengal and South India, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1991, 344 pp., Rs. 295 pp. 132-133

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

Volume 29, issue 4, 1992

The commons, community and the courts of colonial Punjab pp. 393-436

Minoti Chakravarty Kaul

Nature of society and civilisation in early Deccan pp. 437-477

Aloka Parasher

State intervention in industrialisation: A case study of the Madras Presidency pp. 479-506

Padmini Swaminathan

Migration, famines and sex ratio in Orissa division between 1881 and 1921 pp. 507-528

Bidyut Mohanty

Book Reviews: AKBAR S. AHMED, Resistance and Control in Pakistan, Routledge, London, 1991, xx + 207 pp pp. 529-531

Ayesha Jalal

Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN, A Nationalist Conscience: M.A. Ansari, The Congress and the Raj, Manohar, New Delhi, 1987, 277 pp pp. 531-533

Aparna Basu

Book Reviews: GIRIJA SHANKAR, Marwadi Vyapari, Krishna Jansevi & Co., Bikaner, 1988, 204 pp., Rs. 195 pp. 533-535

Sumit Guha

Volume 29, issue 3, 1992

Towards a new demographic equilibrium: The inception of demographic transition in south India pp. 247-289

Christophe Guilmoto

The Mughal state—Structure or process? Reflections on recent western historiography pp. 291-321

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Long-term demographic trends in south Bihar: Gaya and Shahabad districts,* 1811-1921 pp. 323-348

Alok Sheel

The Maniktala secret society: An early Bengali terrorist group pp. 349-370

Peter Heehs

Book Reviews: EHTISHAM AHMAD and NICHOLAS STERN, The Theory and Practice of Tax Reform in Developing Countries, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991, and Foundation Books, New Delhi, 1991 pp. 371-372

P.B. Nayak

Book Reviews: S. BHATTACHARYA et al., The South Indian Economy: Agrarian Change, Industrial Structure and State Policy, c. 1914-1947, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1991, xxvii + 292 pp., Rs. 290 pp. 372-374

Nasir Tyabji

Book Reviews: PETER BOOMGARD, ed., The Colonial Past: Dutch Sources on Indonesian History, The Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Bulletin No. 323, 1991, 63 pp., price not stated; G.J. KNAAP, Changing Economy in Indonesia: A Selection of Statistical Source Material from the Early Nineteenth Century up to 1940, Volume 9: Transport 1819-1940, KIT Press, The Royal Tropical Institute, 1989, Amsterdam, 122 pp., Df1. 26.00; P. BOOMGARD and J.L. VAN ZANDEN, Changing Economy in Indonesia: A Selection of Statistical Source Material from the Early Nineteenth Century up to 1940, Volume 10: Food Crops and Arable Lands, Java 1815-1942, KIT Press, The Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 1990, 144 pp., Df1. 48.00 pp. 374-375

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: GIORGIO BORSA, ed., Trade and Politics in the Indian Ocean: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Delhi, Manohar, 1990, x + 221 pp., Rs. 220 pp. 375-378

M.N. Pearson

Book Reviews: H.V. BOWEN, Revenue and Reform: The Indian Problem in British Politics 1757-1773, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991, xi + 204 pp., £ 27.50 pp. 378-379

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: JEAN DREZE and AMARTYA SEN, Hunger and Public Action, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989, 373 pp., Rs. 275 pp. 379-381

Arup Mitra

Book Reviews: HIROSHI FUKAZAWA, The Medieval Deccan: Peasants, Social Systems and States—Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, with Preface by N. Karashima and Introduction by H. Kotani, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1991, xiv + 252 pp., Rs. 250 pp. 381-382

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: ANIRUDHA GUPTA, ed.,Minorities on India's West Coast. History and Society, Kalinga Publications, Delhi, 1991, 231 pp., Rs. 295 pp. 383-385

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book Reviews: HAROLD JAMES, HAKAN LINDGREN and ALICE TEICHOVA, eds., The Role of Banks in the Interwar Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 1991, xii + 277 pp., price not mentioned; RONALD C. MICHIE, The City of London: Continuity and Change, 1850-1990, Macmillan, London, 1992, xii + 238 pp., price not mentioned pp. 385-386

G. Balachandran

Book Reviews: P.J. RICH, Elixir of Empire, London Regency Press, 1989 pp. 387-388

Krishna Kumar

Book Reviews: DILBAGH SINGH, The State, Landlords and Peasants: Rajasthan in the 18th Century, Delhi, Manohar, 1990, xii + 226 pp., Rs. 150 pp. 388-390

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Reviews: TATU VANHANEN, Politics of Ethnic Nepotism: India as an Example, Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1991 pp. 390-391

Ashok Guha

Volume 29, issue 2, 1992

Quarantine, pilgrimage, and colonial trade: India 1866-1900 pp. 117-144

Mark Harrison

Textile traders and territorial imperatives: Masulipatnam, 1750--1850 pp. 145-169

P. Sudhir and P. Swarnalatha

Surveillance and settlements under the Criminal Tribes Act in Madras pp. 171-198

Meena Radhakrishna

The diffusion of the stationary steam engine from Britain to India 1790-1830 pp. 199-214

Jennifer Tann and John Aitken

Land tax and trade in agricultural produce in seventeenth century western Rajasthan pp. 215-225

B.L. Bhadani

Book Reviews: GYANENDRA PANDEY, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, Oxford, Delhi, 1990; SANDRIA B. FREITAG, Collective Action and Community: Public Arenas and the Emergence of Communalism in North India, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989; VEENA DAS, ed. Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia, Oxford, Delhi, 1990 pp. 227-234

Nita Kumar

Book Reviews: SUSAN BAYLX, Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900, (Cambridge South Asia Series no. 43),Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, 504 pp., bibliography, index pp. 234-238

Richard M. Eaton

Book Reviews: MARIAM DOSSAL, Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City 1845-1875, Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1991, xv+251 pp., Rs. 290 pp. 238-239

V.R. Muraleedharan

Book Reviews: HUGALD GRAFE, History of Christianity in India: Tamilnadu in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Vol. IV, Part II, Church History Association of India, Bangalore, 1990, 325 pp., price unstated pp. 239-241

Susan Visvanathan

Book Reviews: MARK HOLSTROM, ed., Work for Wages in South Asia, Manohar, New Delhi, 1990, 193 pp., Rs. 200/ pp. 241-242

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: MALAVIKA KARLEKAR, Voices from Within: Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991, xviii + 227 pp., Rs. 225 pp. 242-244

Indrani Chatterjee

Volume 29, issue 1, 1992

The climax of popular protest: The Quit India Movement in Orissa pp. 1-35

Biswamoy Pati

Class and gender politics in the Ramlila pp. 37-56

Nita Kumar

Mortality and Indian labour in Malaya, 1877-1933 pp. 57-75

Ralph Shlomowitz and Lance Brennan

Reflections in another mirror: Fictional genealogies of Chilkigarh pp. 77-102

Ranabir Samaddar

Book Reviews: SEKHAR BANDOPADHYAY, Caste Politics and the Raj: Bengal 1872-1937, Calcutta, 1990, K.P. Bagchi and Co., Rs. 150 pp. 103-104

Tanika Sarkar

Book Reviews: Z.A. DESAI and W.E. BEGLEY, ed., The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan,' Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1990, xxxviii + 624 pp., maps, 48 plates, Rs. 575 pp. 104-105

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN, Nationalism and Communal Politics in India 1885-1930, Manohar, New Delhi, 1991, x + 338 pp., Rs. 300 pp. 106-107

Papiya Ghosh

Book Reviews: DEEPAK KUMAR, ed., Science and Empire: Essays in Indian Context (1700-1947), Anamika Prakashan, New Delhi, 1991, xiv + 205 pp., Rs. 200 pp. 107-109

D. Veeraraghavan

Book Reviews: HUGH OWEN, The Indian Nationalist Movement, c. 1912-22: Leadership, Organisation and Philosophy. Asian Studies Association of Australia, South Asian Publications Series, No. 6. Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1990, 262 pp., Rs. 225 pp. 109-110

David Baker

Book Reviews: SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, Improvising Empire. Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal 1500-1700. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1990, xix + 269 pp., appendix, index, three maps, Rs. 215 pp. 110-112

Anthony Disney

Book Reviews: STANLEY JEYARAJA TAMBIAH, Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 187 pp., £9.95 pp. 112-114

Rabindra Ray

Book Reviews: PETER VAN DER VEER, Gods on Earth. The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1989, xv + 310 pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index, Rs. 200 pp. 114-116

Roma Chatterji