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Volume 22, issue 4, 1985

Kinship and pargana in eighteenth century Khandesh pp. 371-397

Stewart Gordon and John F. Richards

Deindustrialisation in Gangetic Bihar during the nineteenth century: Another look at the evidence pp. 399-416

J. Krishnamurty

Artisans in Vijayanagar Society pp. 417-444

Vijaya Ramaswamy

Staying on: The Portuguese of southern Coromandel in the late seventeenth century pp. 445-463

Sanjay Subramanyam

Book reviews: ISHER JUDGE AHLUWALIA, Industrial Growth in India: Stagnation since the Mid-Sixties, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985, xxii + 235 pp., Rs. 120 pp. 465-465

B.N. Goldar

Book reviews: JUDITH M. BROWN, Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, xvi + 429 pp., 2 maps, glossary, index, Rs. 140 pp. 466-468

Narayani Gupta

Book reviews: TOM BOTTOMORE, LAURENCE HARRIS, V.G. KIERNAN and RALPH MILIBAND eds., A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Oxford, Blackwell, 1983, xi + 587 pp., price not stated pp. 466-466

Andre Beteille

Book reviews: TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA ed., Indo-Portuguese History: Old Issues, New Questions, New Delhi, Concept, 1984, xvi + 240 pp., Rs. 100 pp. 468-469

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book reviews: J.S. GREWAL and INDU BANGA eds., Studies in Urban History, Amritsar Guru Nanak Dev University, 209 pp., Rs. 42 (hb.) Rs. 35 (pb.) pp. 470-470

Sanjay Sharma

Book reviews: OM PRAKASH, The Dutch Factories in India, 1617-1623, Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1984, xxiv + 332 pp., Rs. 150 pp. 471-472

Ashin Das Gupta

Book reviews: PETER ROBB ed., Rural India: Land, Power and Society under British Rule, London, Curzon Press, 1983, viii + 314 pp., £9.50 pp. 472-473

Majid Hayat Siddiqi

Book reviews: IAN STONE, Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy, Cambridge South Asian Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 374 pp., price not stated pp. 474-475

B.D. Dhawan

Volume 22, issue 3, 1985

Errata pp. 223-223

N/a

Then came the Marwaris: Some aspects of the changes in the pattern of industrial control in Eastern India pp. 225-249

Omkar Goswami

Bonds of community, ties of religion: Kanpur textile workers in the early twentieth century pp. 251-280

Chitra Joshi

Structural change in Indian agriculture: Land and labour in Bellary district, 1890-1980 pp. 281-306

Bruce L Robert

The value of the Ä€dÄ b al-Muluk as a historical source: An insight into the ideals and expectations of Islamic society in the Middle Period (A.D. 945-1500) pp. 307-327

Sunil Kumar

The Indian mines maternity benefit question, 1919-1947 pp. 329-351

Iftikhar-ul-Awwal

Book reviews: B.L. ABBI ed., Northeast Region: Problems and Prospects of Development, Chandigarh, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, 1984, 361 pp., Rs.160 pp. 353-355

Amalendu Guha

Book reviews: SHAHID AMIN, Sugarcane and Sugar in Gorakhpur: An Inquiry into Peasant Production for Capitalist Enterprise in Colonial India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, xxii + 336 pp., Rs.140 pp. 355-358

Omkar Goswami

Book reviews: C.J. FULLER, Servants of the Goddess: The Priests of a South Indian Temple, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, xxvi + 232 pp., £22.50 pp. 358-360

Andre Beteille

Book reviews: SHIRIN MEHTA, The Peasantry and Nationalism: A Study of the Bardoli Satyagraha, Delhi, Manohar, 1984, x + 215 pp., Rs. 85 pp. 360-361

Ghanshyam Shah

Book reviews: SHARAD PATIL, DÄ sa-Śūdra Slavery, New Delhi, Allied Publishers Private Limited, 1982, Rs. 150.00 pp. 361-363

K.M. Shrimali

Book reviews: URSULA SHARMA, Women, Work and Property in North-West India, London and New York, Tavistock Publications, 1983, 226 pp., price not stated pp. 363-365

Bina Agarwal

Book reviews: KONRAD SPECKER, Weber im Wettbewerb. Das Schickel des Südindischen Textilhandwerks im 19. Jahrhundert ('Weavers in Competition. The Development of the Textile Industry in the Nineteenth Century'), with a Foreword by Dietmar Rothermund, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984, xii + 302 pp., tables, diagrams, 8 plates, DM 48 pp. 365-367

Horst-Joachim Leue

Book reviews: ROMILA THAPAR, From Lineage to State, Social Formations in the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley, Bombay, etc., Oxford University Press, 1984, 189 pp., Rs. 110 pp. 367-369

J.C. Heesterman

Volume 22, issue 2, 1985

Bowreah Cotton and Fort Gloster Jute Mills, 1872-1900 pp. 109-137

Shyam Rungta

'Madmen' of Mymensingh: Peasant resistance and the colonial process in eastern India, 1824 to 1833 pp. 139-173

Willem van Schendel

Jajmani relations in Tirunelveli district: A case study of the Kottai Pillaimar, 1839-1979 pp. 175-200

Kamala Ganesh

Alternative estimates of the real product of India, 1900-46 pp. 201-210

Angus Maddison

Book reviews: S. AMBIRAJAN, Political Economy and Monetary Management (India: 1766- 1914), Affiliated East-West Press Pvt., Ltd., Madras, 1984,203 pp. (with bibliography and index), Rs 75 pp. 211-212

Anand G. Chandavarkar

Book reviews: JAMES A. BOON, Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts, London, Cambridge University Press,1982, 303 pp. (including appendices, biblio graphy, and index), price not stated pp. 213-214

Veena Das

Book reviews: RAYMOND W. GOLDSMITH, The Financial Development of India, 1860-1977, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, 240 pp., Rs 125 pp. 214-218

Nabendu Sen

Book reviews: BETSY HARTMANN and JAMES BOYCE, A Quiet Violence, View from a Bangladesh Village, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, xii + 285 pp., Rs 110 pp. 218-218

P.B. Mongia

Book reviews: RAMASHRAY ROY, Self and Society: A Study in Gandhian Thought, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1984, 205 pp., Rs 120 pp. 219-220

Margaret Chatterjee

Book reviews: BHUPINDER SINGH, The Saora Highlander: Leadership and Development, New Delhi, Somaiya Publications Pvt. Ltd.,1984, xii + 198 pp., Rs 90 pp. 220-221

Sujitav Dash

Book reviews: M.N. SRINIVAS. Some Reflections on Dowry, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 32 pp., Rs 10 pp. 221-222

Kamala Ganesh

Book reviews: S.M. TONKI, Aligarh and Jamia Fight for National Education System, New Delhi, People's Publishing House,1983, 99 pp., Rs 25 pp. 222-224

Aparna Basu

Volume 22, issue 1, 1985

Nationalist and separatist trends in Aligarh, 1915-47 pp. 1-33

Mushirul Hasan and Mohd. Afzal Husain Qadri

Elements of social and economic change in Dutch maritime Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1658-1796 pp. 35-54

S. Arasaratnam

Kunti's cry: Indentured women on Fiji plantations pp. 55-71

Brij V. Lal

Well-irrigation methods in medieval Panjab: The Persian wheel reconsidered pp. 73-87

Chetan Singh

Book reviews: C. A. BAYLY, Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, price not stated pp. 89-92

Asiya Siddiqi

Book reviews: RANAJIT GUHA, ed., Subaltern Studies III: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 337 pp., Rs. 135 pp. 92-95

Majid Hayat Siddiqi

Book reviews: NOBORU KARASHIMA, South Indian History and Society (Studies from Inscrip tions, A.D. 850-1800), Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 249 pp., Rs. 140 pp. 95-101

M.G.S. Narayanan

Book reviews: KAPIL KUMAR, Peasants in Revolt: Tenants, Landlords, Congress and the Raj in Oudh, 1886-1922, New Delhi, Manohar, 1984, 261 pp., Rs. 125 pp. 102-103

Shirin Mehta

Book reviews: DAVID N. LORENZEN, ed., Religious Change and Cultural Domination, XXX International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa, El Colegio de Mexico, 1981, 198 pp., price not stated pp. 103-105

G.A. Oddie

Book reviews: SIDDIQUR RAHMAN OSMANI, Economic Inequality and Group Welfare, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1982, 174 pp., Rs. 110 pp. 105-106

Satya Paul

Book reviews: PETER ROBB, ed., Rural South Asia—Linkages, Change and Development, London, Curzon Press, 250 pp., price and year not stated pp. 106-107

N. Krishnaji

Volume 21, issue 4, 1984

The price regulations of 'Al'uddÄ«n KhaljÄ«-A defence of ZiÄ ' BaranÄ« pp. 393-414

Irfan Habib

Heirs apparent: Fiction and function in Chola mythical genealogies pp. 415-432

George W. Spencer

The Portuguese, the port of Basrur, and the rice trade, 1600-50 pp. 433-462

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Silk culture in Western India: The 'Mutti experiment' (1830-47) pp. 463-496

Claudio Zanier

Notes and communications pp. 499-514

N/a

Book reviews: PRANAB K. BARDHAN, Land, Labour and Rural Poverty: Essays in Development Economics, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 261 pp., Rs 120 pp. 515-516

K. Sundaram

Book reviews: ANDRE BETEILLE, The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, 200 pp., Rs 75 pp. 516-518

Ramchandra Guha

Book reviews: RANAJIT GUHA, ed., Subaltern Studies:Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 2, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, 383 pp., Rs 125 pp. 518-521

B.B. Chaudhuri

Book reviews: BARBARA HARRISS, State and Market: State Intervention in Agricultural Exchange in a Dry Region of Tamil Nadu, South India, New Delhi, Concept Publishing Company, 1984, 375 pp pp. 521-522

R.K. Sharma

Book reviews: RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, A wadh in Revolt, 1857-1858: A Study of Popular Resistance, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1984, 219 pp., Rs 110 pp. 523-524

Majid Hayat Siddiqi

Book reviews: B.F. MUSALLAM, Sex and Society in Islam: Birth Control before the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983 pp. 524-526

P. Hardy

Book reviews: K. SATYANARAYANA, A Study of the History and Culture of the Andhras, Volume 2, New Delhi, People's Publishing House, 1983, Rs 100 pp. 526-527

T.K. Venkatasubramanian

Book reviews: ANDREW M. WATSON, Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World (The Diffusion of Crops and Farming Techniques, 700-1100), Cambridge University Press, 1983, 271 pp pp. 527-531

Ahsan Jan Qaisar

Volume 21, issue 3, 1984

Sovereignty and universal dominion in South Asia pp. 265-292

André Wink

Nineteenth century agricultural development in Punjab: 1850-1900 pp. 293-312

Akhtar Husain Siddiqi

Accuracy of official agricultural statistics and the sources of growth in the Punjab, 1907-47 pp. 313-333

Carl E. Pray

Agriculture in slump: the peasant economy of East and North Bengal in the 1930s pp. 335-364

Omkar Goswami

Review symposium: DHARMA KUMAR (ed.), The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. 2, c 1757-c 1970, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 1091 pp., £60 pp. 365-369

Nitin Desai

Review symposium: II Economic Change in British India: Problems of Conceptualisation pp. 370-379

Rajat Kanta Ray

Review symposium: III Part I: Chapters I, II, III pp. 380-383

Sumit Sarkar

Book reviews: DHARAMPAL, The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth Century, New Delhi, Biblia Impex Pvt. Ltd., 1983, 436 pp., Rs 250. JOSEPH DIBONA, ed., One Teacher One School, New Delhi, Biblia Impex Pvt. Ltd., 1983, 309 pp., Rs 150 pp. 385-388

Aparna Basu

Book reviews: R.J. MOORE, Escape from Empire: The Attlee Government and the Indian Problem, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983, 388 pp pp. 388-389

Partha Sarathi Gupta

Book reviews: DIETMAR ROTHERMUND, The Indian Economy under British Rule, Delhi, Manohar, 1983, 244 pp., Rs 100 pp. 389-390

Omkar Goswami

Book reviews: HELEN I. SAFA, ed., Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization in the Third World Countries, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1982, 331 pp., Rs 45 pp. 390-392

Rakesh Basant

Book reviews: K.D. SETHNA, Karpasa in Prehistoric India: A Chronological and Cultural Clue, New Delhi, Biblia Impex Pvt. Ltd., 1981, 134 pp., Rs 70 pp. 392-392

D.K. Bhattacharya

Volume 21, issue 2, 1984

British relationships with the Golden Temple,1849-90 pp. 139-151

Ian J. Kerr

Crime and criminals in nineteenth century Bengal (1861-1904) pp. 153-183

Arun Mukherjee

When the rains failed: famine, relief, and mortality in British India pp. 185-214

Ira Klein

The new education in Bengal: the 1900 syllabus for the 'kindergarten' and 'lower primary' years and its problems pp. 215-247

Kazi Shahidullah

Book reviews: TOM BOTTOMORE, STEFAN NOWAK and MAGDALENA SOKOLOWSKA, eds., Sociology: The State of the Art, London, Sage Publications,1982, 382 pp., $27.50 pp. 249-250

Vinay Srivastava

Book reviews: S.R. CHARSLEY, Culture and Sericulture: Social Anthropology and Devel opment in a South Indian Livestock Industry, London, Academic Press, 1982, 214 pp., £14.80 pp. 250-253

Claudio Zanier

Book reviews: ASHOK S. GUHA, An Evolutionary View of Economic Growth, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, 139 pp., Rs 60 pp. 253-255

Dharma Kumar

Book reviews: GAVIN KITCHING, Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective: Populism, Nationalism and Industrialisation, London, Methuen, 1982, 208 pp pp. 255-256

S. Ambirajan

Book reviews: ASHIS NANDY, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, 141 pp., Rs 65 pp. 256-258

T.N. Madan

Book reviews: V. RAMAKRISHNA, Social Reform in Andhra, New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House, 1983 pp. 259-260

Uma Ramaswamy

Book reviews: MICHAEL ROBERTS, Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite in Sri Lanka, 1500-1931, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982, 410 pp pp. 260-263

S. Arasaratnam

Volume 21, issue 1, 1984

Conversion to Christianity among the Nagas, 1876-1971 pp. 1-44

Richard M. Eaton

The genesis of railway development in Hyderabad state: a case study in nineteenth century British Imperialism pp. 45-69

Bharati Ray

'A serious time': forest satyagraha in Madhya Pradesh, 1930 pp. 71-90

David Baker

Politics and women in Bengal- the conditions and meaning of participation pp. 91-101

Tanika Sarkar

The subaltern in Uttar Pradesh: a critical note Majid Hayat Siddiqi pp. 103-109

N/a

Review symposium: IChapters: II South India: Some General Considerations of the Region and its Early HistoryIV Vijayanagara c. 1350-1564VII The State and the Economy c. 1500-1750. 3. The South X Non-Agricultural ProductionXI Indian Trade pp. 111-116

S. Arasaratnam

Review symposium: II Chapters: III North India Under the Sultanate (sections 1-3) VII The State and the Economy: The Mughal Empire VIII The Systems of Agricultural Production: Mughal India IX Non-Agricultural Production: Mughal India pp. 116-120

Harbans Mukhia

Review symposium: III Chapters: III.4 The Currency System V The Maritime Trade of India XII Monetary System and Prices XIII Foreign Trade XIV.1 Towns and Cities: Mughal India XV. Standard of Living: Mughal India Appendix The Medieval Economy of Assam pp. 120-127

Om Prakash

Book reviews: ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER, The Bohras, Delhi, Vikas Publishing House, 1980, 341 pp., Rs 95 pp. 129-130

Imtiaz Ahmad

Book reviews: RONALD J. HERRING, Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, 325 pp., Rs 160 pp. 130-132

Andre Beteille

Book reviews: STANLEY A. KOCHANEK, Interest Groups and Development: Business and Poli tics in Pakistan, Delham, Oxford University Press, 1983, 393 pp., Rs 110 pp. 132-134

Gowher Rizvi

Book reviews: T.N. MADAN, Culture and Development, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, 61 pp., Rs 15 pp. 134-135

Ashis Nandy

Book reviews: BARBARA DALY METCALF, Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband. 1860-1900, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press/New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1982, Rs 225 pp. 135-137

Gopal Krishna

Book reviews: BRYAN PFAFFENBERGER, Caste in Tamil Culture: The Religious Foundations of Sudra Domination in Tamil Sri Lanka, New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House, 1982, 268 pp., Rs 100 pp. 137-138

Andre Beteille