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Volume 26, issue 4, 1989

Population growth and mortality Part I: The climacteric of death pp. 387-403

Ira Klein

Mixed trends in landholding in Lalgudi taluk: 1895-1925 pp. 405-435

Haruka Yanagisawa

Early historical trade: An overview pp. 437-457

Himanshu Prabha Ray

Mobilisation against the State and not against the landlords: The Civil Disobedience Movement in Malabar pp. 459-480

K. Gopalankutty

Book Reviews: GENEVIÈVE BOUCHON, 'Regent of the Sea': Cannanore's Response to Portuguese Expansion, 1507-1528, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1988, 254 pp., with 5 maps, appendices, glossary and bibliography. Rs. 100 pp. 481-482

Anthony Disney

Book Reviews: HASTINGS DONNAN, Marriage among Muslims: Preference and Choice in Northern Pakistan, Delhi, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, 1988, xiv + 231 pp., with illustrations, tables, glossary, bibliography and index. Rs. 180 pp. 482-484

Imtiaz Ahmad

Book Reviews: S.J.M. EPSTEIN, The Earthy Soil: Bombay Peasants and the Indian Nationalist Movement, 1919-1947, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1988, 160 pp., Rs. 125 pp. 484-485

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: K.K.N. KURUP, William Logan: A Study in the Agrarian Relations of Malabar, Calicut, Sandhya Publications, 1981, Rs. 50 pp. 485-486

Rajan Gurukkal

Book Reviews: K.K.N. KURUP ed., Kavalappara Papers, Calicut, Calicut University Historical Series, 1984, Rs. 50 pp. 486-487

Rajan Gurukkal

Book Reviews: T.N. MADAN, Non-Renunciation: Themes and Interpretations of Hindu Culture, Delhi; Oxford University Press, 1987, xiii + 184 pp pp. 488-489

Lawrence A. Babb

Book Reviews: THOMAS PANTHAM and KENNETH L. DEUTSCH eds., Political Thought in Modern India, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1986, 362 pp., Rs. 175 pp. 489-490

Gurpreet Mahajan

Book Reviews: PEMA RAM, Agrarian Movements in Rajasthan, Panchsheel Prakashan, 1986, xii + 356 pp., Rs. 175 pp. 491-493

Hari Sen

Book Reviews: BHARATI RAY, Hyderabad and British Paramountcy: 1858-1883, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1988, xviii + 232 pp., Rs. 299 pp. 493-494

C.V. Subbarao

Book Reviews: KARINE SCHOMER and W.H. McLEOD eds., The Sants: Studies in a Devotional Tradition of India, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1987, ix + 472 pp., with index, select bibliography and colour plate. Rs. 300 pp. 495-497

David Shulman

Volume 26, issue 3, 1989

The Criminal Tribes Act in Madras Presidency: Implications for itinerant trading communities pp. 269-295

Meena Radhakrishna

The handloom industry of Central India: 1825-1950 pp. 297-318

Sumit Guha

Cultural nationalism and social reform: The 1904 Temperance Movement in Sri Lanka pp. 319-341

John D. Rogers

The Mughal State and tribes in seventeenth century Sind pp. 343-362

Sunita Zaidi

A rejoinder to Irfan Habib pp. 363-367

André Wink

Reply pp. 368-372

Irfan Habib

Book Reviews: B.P. BARUA ed., Raja Rammohun Roy and the New Learning, Orient Longmans, New Delhi, 1988, pp. 123, Rs. 110 pp. 373-374

Indrani Chatterjee

Book Reviews: V.N. DUTTA, Sati, Widow Burning in India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1988, pp. 277, Rs. 188 pp. 374-376

Aparna Basu

Book Reviews: AHSAN JAN QAISAR, Building Construction in Mughal India: The Evidence from Painting, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1988, pp. 43, 3 appendices, end notes, 22 plates, Rs. 150 pp. 376-377

Sunil Kumar

Book Reviews: MARTIN RAVALLION, Markets and Famines, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987, pp. 203, Rs. 150 pp. 377-379

B. Gopalakrishna Kumar

Book Reviews: D. WESUMPERUMA, Indian Immigrant Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka: A Historical Perspective, 1880-1910, Vidyalankara Press, Kelaniya pp. 380-385

Michael Roberts

Volume 26, issue 2, 1989

Madras handlooms in the nineteenth century pp. 131-166

Konrad Specker

The population history of Berar since 1881 and its potential wider significance pp. 167-201

Tim Dyson

Warfare and state finance in Wodeyar Mysore, 1724-25: A missionary perspective pp. 203-233

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Arumuka Navalar: Religious reformer or national leader of Eelam pp. 235-257

Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam

Book Reviews: MEERA ABRAHAM, Two Medieval Merchant Guilds of South India, South Asian Studies, No. XVIII, Manohar, New Delhi, 1988, pp. xii + 273, Rs. 200 pp. 259-260

Himanshu P. Ray

Book Reviews: UMA CHAKRAVARTI, The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987 pp. 261-263

Romila Thapar

Book Reviews: S. MUTHIAH ed., A Social and Economic Atlas of India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987 pp. 263-264

Saroj K. Pal

Book Reviews: O.P. KEJARIWAL, The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India's Past, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1988, pp. xvi + 293 pp. 264-265

Arthur Charles Staples

Book Reviews: J.F. RICHARDS, Document Forms for Official Orders of Appointment in the Mughal Empire: Translation, Notes and Text, E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series, New Series, XXIX, Cambridge, 1986, pp. 78 + photocopies of 50 manuscript pages pp. 266-267

Muzaffar Alam

Volume 26, issue 1, 1989

Sailors and the crowd: popular protest in Karachi, 1946 pp. 1-28

Anirudh Deshpande

Labour, capital, and the Congress: Delhi Cloth Mills, 1928-38 pp. 29-59

Nita Kumar

Memoirs of William Prinsep: Calcutta years, 1817-1842 pp. 61-79

A.C. Staples

Aspects of women and work in early South India pp. 81-99

Vijaya Ramaswamy

Coromandel revisited: problems and issues in Indian maritime history pp. 101-110

S. Arasaratnam

Book Reviews: SERGIO AIOLFI, Calicos und gedrucktes Zeug. Die Entwicklung der englischen Textilveredelung und der Tuchhandel der East India Company, 1650-1750, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1987, 441 pp pp. 111-112

Dietmar Rotermund

Book Reviews: SATISH CHANDRA ed., The Indian Ocean: Explorations in History, Commerce and Politics, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1987, 334 pp., Rs. 190 pp. 113-114

Prakash Om

Book Reviews: BERNARD S. COHN, An Anthropologist Among Historians and Other Essays, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1987, xxvi + 682pp., Rs. 295 pp. 114-117

Rashmi Pant

Book Reviews: CLIVE DEWEY ed., Arrested Development in India: The Historical Dimension, New Delhi, Manohar, 1988, Rs. 250 pp. 117-119

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: N. VIJAY JAGANNATHAN, Informal Markets in Developing Countries, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1987, viii + 139 pp pp. 119-121

Kaushik Basu

Book Reviews: XINRU LIU, Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges A.D. 1-600, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1988. xxi + 231 pp. 7 figs., 7 maps (price not stated) pp. 121-123

Shereen Ratnagar

Book Reviews: TORU MATSUI, British Rule and Indian Society: A North Indian District in the First Half of the 19th Century, Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 1987, 405 pp. (in Japanese) pp. 123-124

Koi Wakimura

Book Reviews: DAVID C. POTTER, India's Political Administrators, 1919-1983, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986, 289 pp., Rs 190 pp. 124-125

Ramaswamy R. Iyer

Book Reviews: SATINDER SINGH BAWA ed., The Letters of the First Viscount Hardinge of Lahore to Lady Hardinge and Sir Walter and Lady James: 1844-1847, Camden Society Fourth Series, Volume 32, London, The Royal Historical Society, 1986 pp. 126-127

Sumit Guha

Book Reviews: KRISHNA MOHAN SHRIMALI, Agrarian Structure in Central India and the Northern Deccan (c.A.D. 300-500). A Study of VÄ kÄ taka Inscriptions, New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1987, 134 pp., 7 appendices, 5 maps. Price Rs. 110 pp. 127-129

Aloka Parasher

Volume 25, issue 4, 1988

Note from the Editor pp. 399-399

Dharma Kumar

Portfolio capitalists and the political economy of early modern India pp. 401-424

Sanjay Subrahmanyam and C.A. Bayly

Burhanpur: entrepot and hinterland, 1650-1750 pp. 425-442

Stewart Gordon

The state and the rural grain market in eighteenth century eastern Rajasthan pp. 443-473

Madhavi Bajekal

On coinage in Mughal India pp. 475-491

Om Prakash

Agrarian commercialism in eighteenth century south India: evidence from the 1823 Tirunelveli census pp. 493-519

David Ludden

Book Reviews: MUZAFFAR ALAM, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India. Awadh and the Punjab, 1707-48, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986, Rs. 175 pp. 521-523

C.A. Bayly

Book Reviews: C.A. BAYLY, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (The New Cambridge History of India, II,1), Cambridge, Cambridge Uni versity Press, 1988, xi + 230pp., 5 maps, glossary, price not stated pp. 523-527

Chetan Singh

Book Reviews: ANDRE WINK, Land and Sovereignty in India—Agrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth Century Maratha Svarajya, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986, xviii + 417pp., £27.50 (Rupee price not stated) pp. 527-531

Irfan Habib

Volume 25, issue 3, 1988

The bazaar: changing structural characteristics of the indigenous section of the Indian economy before and after the Great Depression pp. 263-318

Rajat Kanta Ray

Conformity and conflict: tribes and the 'agrarian system' of Mughal India pp. 319-340

Chetan Singh

The institution of marriage and position of women in eighteenth century Maharashtra pp. 341-370

V.S. Kadam

Industrialisation before industrialisation? rural industries in Europe and the genesis of capitalism pp. 371-384

Hans Medick

Book Reviews: LAWRENCE A. BABB, Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu Tradition, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1987, xiv+257 pp., Rs. 190 pp. 385-387

C.J. Fuller

Book Reviews: EUGENE F. IRSCHICK, Tamil Revivalism in the 1930s, Madras, 1986, 372 pp., Rs. 160 pp. 387-389

D. Veeraraghavan

Book Reviews: ELEANOR HARTMANN and IAN MONTAGNES, eds., The Thesis and the Book, New Delhi, Vistaar Publications, 1987, 59 pp., Rs. 35 pp. 387-387

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: S.C. MALIK ed., Determinants of Social Status in India, Simla, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1986, xi+191 pp., Rs. 120 pp. 389-391

Uma Chakravarti

Book Reviews: CLAUDE MARKOVITZ, Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1937-39: The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 230. pp pp. 391-394

Rajat KantaRay

Book Reviews: I. RAESIDE (transl.), The Decade of Panipat (1751-61): Marathi Historical Papers and Chronicles, Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1984, 175 pp pp. 394-394

André Wink

Book Reviews: D. ROTHERMUND, The German Intellectual Quest for India, New Delhi, Manohar, 1986, 63 pp pp. 395-396

André Wink

Book Reviews: S.J. TAMBIAH, Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1986, xi+198 pp pp. 396-398

S. Arasaratnam

Volume 25, issue 2, 1988

Becoming a diarist: Amar Singh's construction of an Indian personal document pp. 113-132

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph

The delay in the formation of the Reserve Bank of India: the India Office Perspective pp. 133-169

Rajul Mathur

The communalisation of class struggle: East Bengal peasantry, 1923-29 pp. 171-204

Tajul-Islam Hashmi

Bihar, the colonial state and agricultural development in India, 1880-1920 pp. 205-235

Peter Robb

Review Article pp. 237-247

N/a

Book Reviews: AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI, The Evolution of the State Bank of India (The Roots 1806-1876), Part I: The Early Years, 1806-1860, pp. 535; Part II: Diversity and Regrouping, 1860-1876, pp. 515; Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1987, Rs. 300 (2 volume set of Parts I and II) pp. 249-251

Anand Chandavarkar

Book Reviews: DAVID HARDIMAN, The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987, pp. xii + 248, Rs. 140 pp. 251-253

C.J. Fuller

Book Reviews: AYESHA JALAL, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and tne Demand for Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985, pp. 310, £ 15 pp. 253-257

Mushirul Hasan

Book Reviews: GERALD M. MEIER and DUDLEY SEERS, eds., Pioneers in Development, published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press, New York, 1984, pp. x + 372 pp. 257-258

Suresh D. Tendulkar

Book Reviews: UTSA PATNAIK and MANJARI DINGWANEY, Chains of Servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India, Sangam Books, Madras, 1985, 377 pp, Rs. 110 pp. 258-260

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: ATIUR RAHMAN, Peasants and Classes, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp.1 XLVI + 295, Rs. 140 pp. 260-261

N. Krishnaji

Book Reviews: HENRY SCHOLBERG, Encyclopedias of India, Promilla, New Delhi, 1986, pp. ix + 109 pp. 261-262

B.S. Kesavan

Volume 25, issue 1, 1988

Size and structure of handloom weaving in the mid-thirties pp. 1-24

Tirthankar Roy

Canal irrigation and agrarian change in colonial Andhra: a study of Godavari district, c.1850-1890 pp. 25-60

G.N. Rao

The useful and the ornamental: architecture in India in the last two centuries pp. 61-77

Narayani Gupta

Henry Conybeare and the politics of centralised water supply in mid-nineteenth century Bombay pp. 79-96

Mariam Dossal

Book Reviews: S.BHATTACHARYA and R. THAPAR eds., Situating Indian History, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp. 463 pp. 97-100

André Wink

Book Reviews: LEELA DUBE, ELEANOR LEACOCK and SHIRLEY ARDENER eds., Visibility and Power: Essays on Women in Society and Development, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp. i + 361, Rs. 180 pp. 100-101

Mukul Mukherjee

Book Reviews: ALAIN DE JANVRY and K. SUBBARAO, Agricultural Price Policy and Income Distribution in India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986, pp. 113, Rs. 75 pp. 101-103

Kirit S. Parikh

Book Reviews: SHIREEN MOOSVI, The Economy of the Mughal Empire, c. 1595: A Statistical Study, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987, pp. xi + 442, Rs. 195 pp. 103-107

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Reviews: K.S. SINGH, Tribal Society in India: An Anthropo-historical Perspective, Manohar, New Delhi, 1985, Rs. 175 pp. 107-109

Arvind N. Das

Book Reviews: ERIC STOKES, The Peasant Armed. The Indian Rebellion of 1857, edited by C.A. Bayly, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986, pp. 261 pp. 109-111

Majid Hayat Siddiqi