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Volume 57, issue 4, 2020

Scribal service people in motion: Culture, power and the politics of mobility in India’s long eighteenth century, c. 1680–1820 pp. 443-460

Rosalind O’Hanlon, Anand Venkatkrishnan and Richard David Williams

Networks and fault lines in eighteenth-century Deccani literary communities: LachmÄ« NarÄ yan ‘ShafÄ«q’ and his circle pp. 461-480

Purnima Dhavan

On the road: The novice munshi’s view of inter-imperial North India pp. 481-501

Naveena Naqvi

Entrepreneurs in diplomacy: Maratha expansion in the age of the vakil pp. 503-534

Rosalind O’Hanlon

The scribal household in flux: Pathways of Kayastha service in eighteenth-century Western India pp. 535-566

Dominic Vendell

Leaving Kashi: Sanskrit knowledge and cultures of consumption in eighteenth-century South India pp. 567-581

Anand Venkatkrishnan

Dreams, songs and letters: Sectarian networks and musical archives in eighteenth-century North India pp. 583-604

Richard David Williams

Index to Volume LVII pp. 605-606

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Volume 57, issue 3, 2020

Slaves and slavery in the Smá¹›ticandrikÄ pp. 299-326

Donald R. Davis

Beneficent destinations: Global pharmaceuticals and the consolidation of the modern Indian opium regime, 1907–2002 pp. 327-362

Benjamin Siegel

Rite of passage in the Great War: The long march of Northeast Indian labourers to France, 1917–1918 pp. 363-398

Jangkhomang Guite

Shunting the nation: Survival strategies of Indian (and Pakistani) railway workers (1939–1949) pp. 399-419

Aniruddha Bose

Book review: Rajan Gurukkal, History and Theory of Knowledge Production: An Introductory Outline pp. 421-423

Eric Gurevitch

Book review: Pankaj Jha, A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century pp. 424-429

Francesca Orsini

Book review: Nachiket Chanchani, Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas pp. 429-432

Vasudha Pande

Book review: Sumit Sarkar, Essays of a Lifetime. Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns pp. 432-437

Peter Robb

Volume 57, issue 2, 2020

The elephant and imperial continuities in North India, 1200–1600CE pp. 139-169

Ali Anooshahr

The Kabuliwalas: Afghan moneylending and the credit cosmopolis of British India, c. 1880–1947 pp. 171-198

H William Warner

Slopes of struggle: Coffee on Baba Budan hills pp. 199-227

Sharmila Shrivastava

Alexander and the astrolabe in Persianate India: Imagining empire in the Delhi Sultanate pp. 229-259

Owen T. A. Cornwall

Civil war and religion in medieval Japan and medieval Europe: War for the Gods, emotions at death and treason pp. 261-287

Philippe Buc

Book review: Gunnel Cederlöf and Mahesh Rangarajan, eds, At Nature’s Edge: The Global Present and Long-Term History pp. 289-291

Radhika Govindrajan

Book review: Nitin Sinha, Nitin Varma and Pankaj Jha, eds, Servants’ Pasts: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century South Asia, Vol. I pp. 291-294

Kumkum Roy

Volume 57, issue 1, 2020

Modernity and ‘publicness’: The career of the Mysore matha, 1880–1940 pp. 5-29

Janaki Nair

Long-distance trade in ancient India: Evidence from Kauá¹­ilya’s ArthaÅ›Ä stra pp. 31-47

Patrick Olivelle

Descending from demons, ascending to kshatriyas: Genealogical claims and political process in pre-modern Northeast India, The Chutiyas and the Dimasas pp. 49-75

Jae-Eun Shin

Styles of mastery of a Calcutta Brahman family: Krishnachandra Ghoshal’s pilgrimage to Gaya, Kashi and Prayag, 1769, in Vijayram Sen’s Ti-rthaman.gala pp. 77-123

David L. Curley

Book review: Vasudha Dalmia, Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India pp. 125-127

Prabhat Kumar

Book review: Sunil Sharma, Mughal Arcadia: Persian Literature in an Indian Court pp. 127-129

Anubhuti Maurya

Book review: Aishwary Kumar, Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy pp. 129-133

Santosh Kumar Rai

Volume 56, issue 4, 2019

Vaccinating against Vasoori: Eradicating smallpox in the ‘model’ princely state of Travancore, 1804–1946 pp. 361-386

Aparna Nair

Transformation and decline of Sawng: The socio-cultural effects of migration and the changes in intercommunity relations in Calcutta c.1870–1930 pp. 387-409

Rajat Kanti Sur

Invoking ‘Hindu’ Ayurveda: Communalisation of the late colonial Ayurvedic discourse pp. 411-426

Saurav Kumar Rai

Owners, creditors and traders: Women in late colonial Calcutta pp. 427-456

Ishita Chakravarty

In the hands of a ‘secular state’: Meos in the aftermath of Partition, 1947–49 pp. 457-488

Rakesh Ankit

Changing the guard: The dissolution of the nationalist–Marxist orthodoxy in the agrarian and agricultural history of India pp. 489-509

Clive Dewey

Book review: Jangkhomang Guite, Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India pp. 511-514

Sanghamitra Misra

Book review: Gagan D. S. Sood, India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-century World of Circulation and Exchange pp. 515-517

Tirthankar Roy

Book review: Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Sarvani Gooptu, eds, On Modern Indian Sensibilities: Culture, Politics, History pp. 517-519

Chandak Sengoopta

Book review: Dwaipayan Sen, The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal pp. 519-522

Geetha V.

Book review: Sadan Jha, Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag pp. 522-524

Arundhati Virmani

Index to Volume LVI pp. 525-526

N/a

Volume 56, issue 3, 2019

By way of an introduction: Innovations in Telugu cultural history pp. 247-251

Velcheru Narayana Rao

Kṣētrayya: The making of a Telugu poet pp. 253-282

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

The Andhra Sahitya Parishat: Language, nation and empire in colonial South India (1911–15) pp. 283-310

Gautham Reddy

Expanding domains and the personal, imperial style of KṛṣṇadevarÄ ya pp. 311-337

Ilanit Loewy Shacham

Reading and re-reading the Vasu-caritramu pp. 339-360

David Shulman

Volume 56, issue 2, 2019

Dalits and the Raj: The persistence of the Jatavs in the United Provinces pp. 119-145

Ian Duncan

Jayaprakash Narayan and the politics of reconciliation for the postcolonial state and its imperial fragments pp. 147-169

Lydia Walker

Premchand, nationalism and civil resistance in colonial North India pp. 171-194

Shailendra Kumar Singh

Historiography, fieldwork and popular Sufi shrines in the Indian Punjab pp. 195-226

Yogesh Snehi

Book review: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis pp. 227-230

Burton Cleetus

Book review: Whitney Cox, Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain pp. 230-232

Manu V. Devadevan

Book review: Ismail K. Poonawala, ed., Turks in the Indian Subcontinent, Central and West Asia: The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World pp. 232-234

Roy S. Fischel

Book review: Aparna Kapadia, In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-century Gujarat pp. 235-237

Sneh Jha

Book review: Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana, eds, Dalit Studies pp. 237-241

Aishwary Kumar

Book review: Neeladri Bhattacharya, The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World pp. 241-245

Rashmi Pant

Volume 56, issue 1, 2019

India beyond the Ganges: Defining Arakanese Buddhism in Persianate colonial Bengal pp. 1-31

Thibaut d’Hubert

Gendered lives in vernacular fiction: Redefining family in Hindi short stories of the early 1940s pp. 33-51

Shobna Nijhawan

The economic power of women in early South Asian Buddhism pp. 53-76

Matthew D. Milligan

The problem with neera: The (un)making of a national drink in late colonial India pp. 77-97

Darinee Alagirisamy

Book Review: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee, eds, India and Iran in the Longue Durée pp. 99-101

Deeksha Bharadwaj

Book Review: Manjil Hazarika, Prehistory and Archaeology of Northeast India: Multidisciplinary Investigation in an Archaeological Terra Incognita pp. 101-103

Sanjukta Datta

Book Review: Aakash Singh Rathore and Rimina Mohapatra, Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, with Texts pp. 103-105

J. M. Fritzman

Book Review: Ashutosh Kumar, Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830–1920 pp. 105-107

Ruben Gowricharn

Book Review: Priya Maholay-Jaradi, Fashioning a National Art: Baroda’s Royal Collection and Art Institutions (1875–1924) pp. 107-109

Sudeshna Guha

Book Review: Moin Ahmad Nizami, Reform and Renewal in South Asian Islam: The Chishti-Sabris in 18th–19th Century North India pp. 110-112

Brannon D. Ingram

Book Review: Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu, eds, Medical Encounters in British India; Samiksha Sehrawat, Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender State and Society c. 1840–1920; Poonam Bala, ed., Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India; and Madhuri Sharma, Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India pp. 112-116

Madhwi

Book Review: Aparajith Ramnath, The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State, 1900–1947 pp. 116-118

Aparajita Mukhopadhyay