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Volume 58, issue 4, 2021

The Ghaznavid Empire of India pp. 441-476

Ali Anooshahr

Is Indian sedition law colonial? J. F. Stephen and the jurisprudence on free speech pp. 477-504

Sunny Kumar

Janabai and Gangakhed of Das Ganu: Towards ethnic unity and religious cohesion in a time of transition pp. 505-532

Irina Glushkova

Tax Raj: Koyas, migration and adivasi frontiers in the central provinces pp. 533-559

Rakesh M. Krishnan

Book review: Suhita Sinha Roy, The Cultural Economy of Land: Rural Bengal, Circa 1860–1940 pp. 561-563

Rajarshi Dasgupta

Book review: Rakesh Ankit, India in the Interregnum: Interim Government, September 1946–August 1947 pp. 563-565

Saumya Gupta

Book review: Awadhendra Sharan, Dust and Smoke: Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism, India, c.1860–c.1940 pp. 565-567

Sopan Joshi

Book review: Tarangini Sriraman, In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India pp. 568-570

Aprajita Sarcar

Index to Volume LVIII pp. 571-572

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Volume 58, issue 3, 2021

The early decades of the Bata Shoe Company in India: From establishment to economic and social integration pp. 297-332

Milan Balaban, Jan Herman and Dalibor Savic´

Management science and nation building: The sociotechnical imaginary behind the making of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad pp. 333-359

Lourens van Haaften

Wilding the domestic: Camp servants and glamping in British India pp. 361-391

Ezra D. Rashkow

Baptising Pandita Ramabai: Faith and religiosity in the nineteenth-century social reform movements of colonial India pp. 393-424

Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati, Prithvi Sinha and Sneha Garg

Book review: Osmund Bopearachchi and Suchandra Ghosh, eds, Early Indian History and Beyond: Essays in Honour of B. D. Chattopadhyaya pp. 425-427

Daud Ali

Book review: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, c. 1400–1650 pp. 427-429

Manan Ahmed Asif

Book review: Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon, eds, Capitalisms: Towards a Global History pp. 429-432

Jairus Banaji

Book review: Ryosuke Furui, Land and Society in Early South Asia: Eastern India 400–1250 AD pp. 432-434

Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

Volume 58, issue 2, 2021

Once bitten, twice shy: A French traveller and go-between in Mughal India, 1648–67 pp. 153-212

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

‘Hindu Communism’: Satyabhakta, apocalypses and utopian Ram Rajya pp. 213-248

Charu Gupta

Motherhood on display: The child welfare exhibition in colonial Calcutta, 1920 pp. 249-277

Ranjana Saha

Book review: Durba Mitra, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought pp. 279-281

Charu Gupta

Book review: A. D. Jhala, An Endangered History: Indigeneity, Religion, and Politics on the Borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh pp. 281-283

Joy L. K. Pachuau

Book review: Sanjib Baruah, In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast pp. 283-286

Ahona Panda

Book review: A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Who Owns That Song? The Battle for Subramania Bharati’s Copyright pp. 286-289

Devika Sethi

Volume 58, issue 1, 2021

Obituary: Professor Sunil Kumar (1956–2021) pp. 5-5

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Sweet, sweet language: Prakrit and MaṇipravÄ á¸·am in premodern Kerala pp. 7-27

Sivan Goren-Arzony

Idiom and innovation in the ‘Gupta Period’: Revisiting Eran and Sondhni pp. 29-71

Elizabeth A. Cecil and Peter C. Bisschop

Narratives of a place named Ellora: Myths, culture and politics pp. 73-111

Mahesh Sharma

Grape wine in ancient and early Medieval India: The view from the centre pp. 113-144

James McHugh

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