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Volume 23, issue 4, 1986

Textile producers and production in late seventeenth century Coromandel pp. 333-355

Joseph J. Brennig

Aspects of state formation in South India and Southeast Asia, 1500-1650 pp. 357-377

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Merchants and peasants: A study of the structure of local trade in grain in late eighteenth century Bengal pp. 379-402

Rajat Datta

Grain traders and the East India Company: Patna and its hinterland in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries pp. 403-429

Kum Kum Banerjee

Book reviews: MICHAEL CARRITHERS, STEVEN COLLINS and STEVEN LUKES eds., The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, x + 309 pp pp. 431-432

T.N. Madan

Book reviews: BIPAN CHANDRA, Communalism in Modern India. Vikas Publishing House, Delhi, 1984, xii + 363 pp., Rs. 150 pp. 433-434

Mushirul Hasan

Book reviews: NEIL CHARLESWORTH, Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, xii + 319 pp., price not stated pp. 435-436

Sumit Guha

Book reviews: THOMAS B. COBURN, Devi-Mahatmya: The Crystallization of the Goddess Tradition. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1984, xvi + 359 pp., bibliography, index, Rs. 125. JOHN STRATTON HAWLEY and DONNA MARIE WULFF eds., The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1984 (also published in 1982 by Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California), xviii + 414 pp., illustrations, Bibliography, index, Rs. 250 pp. 437-440

David Shulman

Book reviews: SUMIT GUHA, The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan 1818-1941. Delhi, Oxford University Press, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, 1985, pp. 211 (with a bibliography), Rs. 145 pp. 440-442

Alan Heston

Book reviews: S.K. GUPTA, The Scheduled Castes in Modern Indian Politics: Their Emergence as a Political Power. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1985, xi + 355 pp., Rs. 190 pp. 442-443

Andre Beteille

Book reviews: FRIEDHELM HARDY, Viraha Bhakti: The Early History of Krishna Devotion in South India. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 692 pp., Rs. 250 pp. 443-446

R. Nagaswamy

Book reviews: DAVID LUDDEN, Peasant History in South India. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985, xix + 310 pp., U.S.$52 pp. 446-448

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book reviews: DANIEL MILLER, Artefacts as Categories: A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India. (New Studies in Archaeology series). Cambridge University Press, 1985, 253 pp., price not stated pp. 448-449

D.K. Bhattacharya

Book reviews: STEPHEN NEILL, A History of Christianity in India 1707-1858. London, Cambridge University Press, 1985, XVII + 578 pp., £45 pp. 449-451

E.R. Hambye

Book reviews: JEAN-PHILIPPE PLATTEAU, JOSE MURICKAN and ETIENNE EELBAR, Technology, Credit and Indebtedness in Marine Fishing-A Case Study of Three Fishing Villages in South Kerala. Delhi, Hindustan Publishing Corpo ration, 1985, xii + 406 pp., Rs. 150 pp. 451-452

P.G.K. Panikar

Book reviews: KIRSTEN WESTERGARRD, State and Rural Society in Bangladesh: A Study in Relationship. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph Series No. 49, Curzon Press, 1985, pp. 190 pp. 452-453

Swadesh R. Bose

Volume 23, issue 3, 1986

Exiles and renegades in early sixteenth century Portuguese India pp. 249-262

Maria Augusta Lima Cruz

The advantages of backwardness: Colonial policy and agriculture in Haryana pp. 263-288

Prem Chowdhry

Infant mortality and Fiji's Indian migrants, 1879-1919 pp. 289-302

Ralph Shlomowitz

Artisans in Himachal Pradesh circa AD 700-1440: A study based on epigraphs pp. 303-312

Laxman S. Thakur

The 'Manchester School' in Yorkshire: Economic relations between India and Sheffield in the mid-nineteenth century pp. 313-321

Ian Inkster

Book reviews: MEGHNAD DESAI, SUZANNE HOEBER RUDOLPH and ASHOK RUDRA eds., Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 384 pages pp. 323-324

A.K. Dasgupta

Book reviews: HETUKAR JHA, Colonial Context of Higher Education in India, New Delhi, Usha, 1985, pp. 152, Rs. 75 pp. 324-326

Aparna Basu

Book reviews: AMARTYA SEN, Resources, Values and Development, Delhi, OUP, 1984, pp. 547, Rs. 130 pp. 326-327

Dharma Kumar

Book reviews: JAN VANSINA, Oral Tradition as History, James Currey, London, and Heinemann Kenya, Nairobi, 1985, pp. 247 pp. 327-328

Majid Hayat Siddiqi

Book reviews: SHIV VISVANATHAN, Organising for Science, The Making of an Industrial Research Laboratory, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. vii + 279, Rs. 120 pp. 329-330

Bharat Bhushan

Book reviews: GEORGE DAVISON WINIUS, The Black Legend of Portuguese India: Diogo do Couto, His Contemporaries and the "Soldado Prático"—A Contribution to the Study of Political Corruption in the Empires of Early Modern Europe, XCHR Studies Series No. 3, New Delhi, Concept, 1985, pp. xxxi + 123, Rs. 80 pp. 330-331

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Volume 23, issue 2, 1986

The dynamics of continuity in Indian domestic industry: Jari manufacture in Surat, 1900-47 pp. 127-149

Douglas Haynes

The daughters of Aryavarta pp. 151-186

Madhu Kishwar

The impact of Islam on Kashmir in the Sultanate period (1320-1586) pp. 187-205

Mohammad Ishaq Khan

Merchants of Konkan pp. 207-215

Ranabir Chakravarti

Discussion pp. 217-226

M. Mufakharul Islam

Book reviews: JERE L. BACHARACH, A Middle East Studies Handbook, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 160 pp., £25 (h.b.), £9.95 (p.b.) pp. 227-227

Mushirul Hasan

Book reviews: CHRISTOPHER JOHN BAKER, An Indian Rural Economy, 1880-1955: The Tamilnad Countryside, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 637 pp., Rs. 165 pp. 228-230

J. Krishnamurthy

Book reviews: KAUSHIK BASU, The Less Developed Economy: A Critique of Contempor ary Theory, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, Rs. 90 pp. 230-232

Ashok Rudra

Book reviews: ANNE BOOTH and R.M. SUNDRAM, Labour Absorption in Agriculture, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 323 pp., Rs. 100 pp. 232-233

A. Vaidyanathan

Book reviews: R.S. KHARE, The Untouchable as Himself: Ideology, Identity and Pragmatism among the Lucknow Chamars, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 204 pp., £19.50 pp. 233-234

Andre Beteille

Book reviews: FREDERIQUE APFFEL MARGLIN, Wives of the God-King. The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, 404 pp., Rs. 180 pp. 234-237

T.N. Madan

Book reviews: M.B. McALPIN, Subject to Famine: Food Crises and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920, Princeton University Press, 1983, $49.50 pp. 237-239

Sumit Guha

Book reviews: BARBARA D. METCALF ed., Moral Conduct and Authority; The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984, 389 pp., £30 pp. 239-241

Sunil Kumar

Book reviews: B.R. NANDA, Gandhi And His Critics, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985 pp. 241-243

Hitesranjan Sanyal

Book reviews: VEENA TALWAR OLDENBURG, The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856- 1877, Princeton, 1984, 287 pp pp. 243-245

Asiya Siddiqi

Book reviews: TIM WRIGHT, Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895-1937, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 262 pp., £30.000 pp. 245-247

Colin Simmons

Volume 23, issue 1, 1986

Errata pp. i-i

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The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic— The Indian Experience pp. 1-40

I.D. Mills

The Congress in a District, 1930-46: Problems of Political Mobilization pp. 41-61

Zoya Hasan

Temple Girls of Medieval Karnataka pp. 63-78

Aloka Parasher and Usha Naik

Hook- Swinging and Popular Religion in South India during the Nineteenth Century pp. 93-106

G.A. Oddie

Book Reviews: A. BETEILLE, (ed.), Equality and Inequality: Theory and Practice, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. xii + 302, Rs 85, hardback pp. 107-108

Kaushik Basu

Book Reviews: J.L. BROCKINGTON, Righteous RÄ ma: the Evolution of an Epic, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. x + 363, Rs 180 pp. 109-111

Rosalind Lefeber

Book Reviews: JEAN DELOCHE, The Ancient Bridges of India, New Delhi, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Scientific Research, 1984, pp. 121 pp. 111-113

Shirish B. Patel

Book Reviews: MARK HOLMSTRÖM, Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour, London, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. x + 342 pp. 113-115

Kuriakose Mamkooitam

Book Reviews: R.M. LALA, The Heartbeat of a Trust. Fifty Years of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill, 1984, pp. 187, Price Rs 45 pp. 115-116

Aparna Basu

Book Reviews: STEPHEN NEILL, A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 583, Price £45 pp. 117-118

Susan Visvanathan

Book Reviews: D.U. SASTRY, The Cotton Mill Industry in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. xvi + 134, Rs 75, hardback pp. 118-119

Omkar Goswami

Book Reviews: DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI and PRITI MISHRA, Towards a New Frontier (History of the Bank of Baroda 1908-1983, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1985, pp. 313, Rs 160 pp. 119-121

A.G. Chandavarkar

Book Reviews: ANANDA WICKREMERATNE: The Genesis of an Orientalist: Thomas William Rhys Davids and Buddhism in Sir Lanka, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1984, Rs 90 pp. 121-124

Richard Gombrich