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Volume 20, issue 4, 1983

Law, custom, and statutory social reform: the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856 pp. 363-388

Lucy Carroll

Society and economy in the Deccan, 1818-50 pp. 389-413

Sumit Guha

The Cambay 'disturbances' of 1890: popular protest in Princely India pp. 415-437

Ian Copland

Geographical considerations in the localisation of ancient sea-ports of India pp. 439-448

Jean Deloche

Book reviews: G. WHITNEY AZOY, Buzkashi. Game and Power in Afghanistan, Symbol and culture series. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982, 158 pp pp. 449-451

J.P.S. Uberoi

Book reviews: C.R. BOXER, João de Barros: Portuguese Humanist and Historian of Asia, New Delhi, Concept, 1981, 158 pp. Rs 60 (XCHR Studies Series No. 1) pp. 451-455

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book reviews: LEELA GULATI, Profiles in Female Poverty: A Study of Five Poor Working Women in Kerala, Delhi, Hindustan Publishing Corporation. 1981, 188 pp. Price not stated pp. 455-456

Devendra B. Gupta

Book reviews: POLLY HILL, Dry Grain Farming Families: Hausaland (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) Compared, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982 pp. 456-458

Sumit Guha

Book reviews: R. JAYARAMAN, Caste and Class: Dynamics of Inequality in Indian Society, Delhi, Hindustan Publishing House, 1981, 168 pp. Price not mentioned pp. 458-461

Imtiaz Ahmad

Book reviews: T.N. MADAN (ed.), Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer, Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont, New Delhi, Vikas, 1982, 444 pp. Rs. 150 pp. 461-463

D. Devahuti

Book reviews: VANAJA RANGASWAMI, The Story of Integration: A New Interpretation in the Context of the Democratic Movements in the Princely States of Mysore, Travancore, and Cochin, 1900-1947, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1981, 406 pp. Rs. 160 pp. 463-464

Ian Copland

Volume 20, issue 3, 1983

The political economy of 'discriminating protection': the case of textiles in the 1920s pp. 239-275

Basudev Chatterji

Machine manufacture in a colonial economy: the pioneering role of George Hattersley and Sons Ltd. in India, 1919-43 pp. 277-315

Colin Simmons, Helen Clay and Robert Kirk

Constructing railways in India—an estimate of the numbers employed, 1850-80 pp. 317-339

Ian J. Kerr

The GÄ«tÄ, Suttee and Rammohun Roy pp. 341-347

Arvind Sharma

Book Reviews: T.R. METCALF,Landlords and the British Raj. Northern India in the Nineteenth Century, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1979, 450 pp., Rs.90 pp. 349-353

G. Pandey

Book Reviews: A.K. BANERJI, Aspects of Indo-British Economic Relations, 1858-1898, Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1982, 272 pp., Rs. 120 pp. 353-354

J. Krishnamurty

Book Reviews: GHULAM MURSHID, Reluctant Debutante: Response of Bengali Women to Modernisation, Sahitya Samsad, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh, 1983, pp. 285, price not stated pp. 354-356

Aparna Basu

Book Reviews: THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN, Dravidian Kinship, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 486 pp., £ 35.00 pp. 357-358

Andre Beteille

Book Reviews: IAN BRUCE WATSON, Foundation for Empire: English Private Trade in India, 1659-1760, 398 pp., New Delhi, Vikas, 1980, Rs. 125 pp. 359-361

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Reviews: SUSAN LEWANDOWSKI, Migration and Ethnicity in Urban India: Kerala Migrants in the City of Madras 1870-1970, Delhi, Manohar Books, 1980, 240 pp., Rs. 75 pp. 361-362

Narayani Gupta

Volume 20, issue 2, 1983

The logic of tenancy cultivation: central and south-east Punjab, 1870-1935 pp. 121-170

Neeladri Bhattacharya

On the reliability of pre-independence agricultural statistics in Bombay and Punjab pp. 171-190

Satish Chandra Mishra

The writers' class of ancient India— a case study in social mobility pp. 191-204

Chitrarekha Gupta

Some aspects of the problem of subinfeudation in undivided Bengal pp. 205-216

M. Mafakharul Islam

Book reviews: B.R. BAVISKAR, The Politics of Development: Sugar Cooperatives in Rural Maharashtra, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1980, 241 pp., Rs 75 pp. 217-219

Jayant Lele

Book reviews: C.J. BLISS and N.H. STERN, Palanpur—The Economy of an Indian Village, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1982, 340 pp pp. 219-220

Prannoy Roy

Book reviews: D.N. DHANAGARE, Peasant Movements in India, 1920-1950, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, 254 pp., Rs 90. SUNIL SEN, Peasant Movements in India, Mid-Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi and Company, 1982, 275 pp., Rs 75 pp. 220-222

Radhika Chopra

Book reviews: PAUL R. GREENOUGH, Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal, The Famine of 1943-44, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 362 pp., $ 37 pp. 222-225

Omkar Goswami

Book reviews: R. GUHA, (ed.), Subaltern Studies—I: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1982, 251 pp., Rs 90 pp. 225-229

Sumit Guha

Book reviews: JOHN HARRISS, Capitalism and Peasant Farming, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1982, 358 pp pp. 229-230

Dharma Kumar

Book reviews: AMARTYA SEN, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1981, 268 pp pp. 230-232

A.K. Dasgupta

Book reviews: ASOK SEN, PARTHA CHATTERJEE and SAUGATA MUKHERJI, Perspectives in Social Sciences 2: Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure in Bengal 1850-1947, published for the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Oxford University Press, 1982, 314 pp., Rs 80 pp. 232-233

Mukul Mukherjee

Book reviews: M.E. YAPP, Strategies of British India: Britain, Iran and Afghanistan 1798- 1850, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980, 690 pp., Rs 200 pp. 233-236

Partha Sarathigupta

Book reviews: N. GERALD BARRIER (ed.), The Census in British India: New Perspectives, Delhi, Manohar, 1981, 248 pp., Rs 75 pp. 236-237

J. Krishnamurty

Volume 20, issue 1, 1983

Limitations on female life chances in rural central Gujarat pp. 1-25

Alice Clark

Impact of modernisation on women's occupations: a case study of the rice-husking industry of Bengal pp. 27-45

Mukul Mukherjee

Reserved seats—women and the vote in Bombay pp. 47-65

Gail Pearson

Female agricultural labourers of Nellore, 1881-1981 pp. 67-79

M. Atchi Reddy

Family and factory: women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 1919-1939 pp. 81-96

Radha Kumar

Volume 19, issue 3-4, 1982

Population Growth and Commercialisation of Agriculture: India, 1890-1940 pp. 237-266

Ashoka Mody

In the Deep Blue Sea: Surat and Its Merchant Class During the Dyarchic Era (1759-1800) pp. 267-298

Michelgugliebmo Torri

The Business World of Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy pp. 301-324

Asiya Siddiqi

Jat Domination in South-East Punjab: Socio-Economic Basis of Jat Politics in a Punjab District pp. 325-346

Prem Chowdhry

The Raj Darbhanga and the Court of Wards, 1860-1879: Managerial Reorganization and Elite Education pp. 347-363

Stephen Henningham

The Opium Evil in Nineteenth Century Assam pp. 365-376

Shrutidev Goswami

Marathi Records On Village Communities in Goa Archives pp. 377-385

A.R. Kulkarni

Pedhis and Mills: the Historical Integration of the Formal and Informal Sectors in the Economy of Ahmedabad pp. 387-396

Rajat Kanta Ray

Book Reviews: BALAKRISHNAN AND R. LEELA DEVI, Mannathu Padmanabhan and the Revival of Nairs in Kerala, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1982, pp. 122, Rs 60 pp. 397-398

M.S.A. Rao

Book Reviews: ANDRE BETEILLE, Ideologies and Intellectuals, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 51, Rs 10 pp. 398-399

R.K. Srivastava

Book Reviews: SHARIT BHOWMIK, Class Formation in a Plantatian System, New Delhi, People's Publishing House, 1981, pp. xiii+263, Rs 50 pp. 399-400

Amalendu Guha

Book Reviews: V.M. DANDEKAR, Peasant-Worker Alliance: Its Basis in the Indian Economy, Orient Longman, Rs 28 pp. 401-403

Ashok Mitra

Book Reviews: ARVIND N. DAS AND V. NILKANT, (Ed.) Agrarian Relations in India, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, pp. x+273, Rs 75 pp. 403-404

Girish Mishra

Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN (Ed.) Communal and pan-Islamic Trends in Colonial India, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1981, pp. xii + 387 pp. 405-408

Barbara Metcalf

Book Reviews: HABIB, An Atlas of the Mughal Empire, Delhi; Oxford University Press, 1982, 32 maps, text, pp. 105 pp. 408-411

Jean Deloche

Book Reviews: R.J. MOORE, Churchill, Cripps, and India, 1939-1945, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. x+152, Rs 110 pp. 411-413

Partha Sarathi Gupta

Book Reviews: GANANATH OBEYEKERE, Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience, The University of Chicago Press, 1981, pp. 217 pp. 413-415

Veena Das

Book Reviews: PHILIP OLDENBURG, Big City Government in India: Councilor, Administrator and Citizen in Delhi, US edition 1976, Delhi 1978, pp. xiii+440, Rs 60 pp. 415-417

Narayani Gupta

Book Reviews: M. N. PEARSON, Coastal Western India, New Delhi, 1980, pp. xxviii + 149, Rs 60 pp. 417-420

Lotika Varadarajan

Book Reviews: KHALID B. SAYEED, Politics in Pakistan: The Nature and Direction of Change, New York, Praeger, 1980, pp. x+195, $21.95 pp. 421-422

Gail Minault

Book Reviews: S. KADHIRVEL, A History of the Maravas, (1700-1800), Madurai Publishing House, 1977, pp. 246 pp. 422-424

Jean Deloche

Book Reviews: ASHIN DAS GUPTA, Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat: C. 1700- 1750, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlage, 1979, pp. x+305, price not stated pp. 424-426

Prakash Om

Book Reviews: N.R. SHETH, The Social Framework of an Indian Factory, New Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corporation, 1981 (2nd ed.) and E.A. RAMA SWAMY and UMA RAMASWAMY, Industry and Labor; An Introduction, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1981 pp. 426-429

Richard D. Lambert

Volume 19, issue 2, 1982

Jobs and jobbery: the sweeper in Bombay under the raj pp. 101-139

Jim Masselos

Collaboration and Conflict: European and Indian Capitalists and The Jute Economy of Bengal, 1919-39 pp. 141-179

Omkar Goswami

Communal Conflict in Delhi: 1803-1930 pp. 181-200

Warren Fusfeld

Premchand on Industrialism: A Study in Attitudinal Ambivalence pp. 201-212

Geetanjali Pandey

Book Reviews: ARJUN APPADURAI, Worship and Conflict Under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, Pp. x+ 226, £ 19.50 pp. 213-214

Andre Beteille

Book Reviews: H.P. CHATTOPADUYAYA, Indians in Sri Lanka: A Historical Study, O.P.S. Publishers Private Ltd., Calcutta, 1979, Pp. 312, Rs 100 pp. 214-215

Raja Jayaraman

Book Reviews: MUSHIRUL HASAN, Mohamed Ali: Ideology and Politics, New Delhi, Manohar, 1981, Pp. xii+177, Appendices, Bibilography, and Index, Rs 85. (Ed.) MUSHIRUL HASAN, Mohamed Ali in Indian Politics: Select Writings, Volume 1, New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 1982, Pp. xi+335, Appendix, Glossary and Index, Rs 120 pp. 215-216

Barbara Metcalf

Book Reviews: DAVID HARDIMAN, Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District 1917-1934, Delhi, OUP, 1981, Pp. 309, Rs 110 pp. 216-223

Sumit Sarkar

Book Reviews: G.T. KURIEN, Dynamics of Rural Transfarmotion—A Study of Tamil Nadu 1950-1975, Orient Longman, 1981, Pp. 151, Rs 52 pp. 223-224

N. Krishnaji

Book Reviews: SARMA MARLA, Bonded Labour in India, Biblia Impex Private Ltd., New Delhi, 1981, Pp. 227, Rs 85 pp. 225-226

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: SHEREEN RATNAGAR, Encounters: The Westerly Trade of the Harappan Civilization, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1981, Rs 120 pp. 226-229

H.D. Sankalia

Book Reviews: G.V. SCAMMELL, The World Encompassed: The First European Maritime Empires, c. 800-1650, London, Methuen, 1981, Pp. xiv+538, £14.95 pp. 230-231

M.N. Pearson

Book Reviews: LEON SWARTZBERG, JR: The North Indian Peasant Goes to Market, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidas, 1979, Pp. xiii + 163, Rs 50. GYORGY TOLNAI, The Growth of Big Industry and Domestic Market in the Third World: Transformation of the traditional Sector, Present and Future, Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 1980, Pp. 260, price not indicated pp. 232-236

Sudipto Mundle

Volume 19, issue 1, 1982

Sovereignty and the "SIKKA" under Company Raj: Minting Prerogative and Imperial Legitimacy in India pp. 1-25

John S. Deyell and R.E. Frykenberg

The Problem of Middle Class Educated Unemployment in Bengal, 1912-1942 pp. 27-45

Iftikhar-Ul-Awwal

Weaver Folk Traditions as a Source of History pp. 47-62

Vijaya Ramaswamy

Racial Discrimination and Science in Nineteenth Century India pp. 63-82

Deepak Kumar

Book Reviews: RAFEUDDIN AHMED, The Bengal Muslims 1871—1906: A Quest for Identity, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. xvi+271 pp. 83-85

Barbara D. Metcalf

Book Reviews: PETER GRAN, Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840, Texas and London, University of Texas Press, 1979, pp. xvii+278 pp. 85-89

R. Stephen Humphreys

Book Reviews: NARAYANI GUPTA, Delhi Between Two Empires 1803-1931: Society, Government and Urban Growth, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 260 illus, Rs. 90 pp. 89-91

Helen E. Meller

Book Reviews: A. SREEDHARA MENON, Social and Cultural History of Kerala, New Delhi, Sterling Publishers 1979, Rs 100 pp. 91-92

T.R. Shama Bhat

Book Reviews: MAUREEN L. PATTERSON: South Asian Civilisations: A Bibliographic Synthesis, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1981, pp. 853 pp. 92-94

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: JAMES J. PRESTON, Cult of the Goddess: Social and Religious Change in a Hindu Temple, Vikas, New Delhi, 1980, pp. 109, Rs. 50 pp. 95-96

Frederique Apfel Marglin

Book Reviews: HITESRANJAN SANYAL, Social Mobility in Bengal, Calcutta, 1981, pp. x+145, Rs 50 pp. 97-99

S. Bhattacharya