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Volume 18, issue 3-4, 1981

Money and Prices in the Earlier Stages of Empire: India and Britain 1760-1840 pp. 231-262

Asiya Siddiqi

Eyes Without Sight: Education and Mill Workers in South India, 1939-76 pp. 263-286

Enid Perlin

Agrarian Revolts in Northern India during the Late 17th and Early 18th Century pp. 287-325

R.P. Rana

Agricultural Growth Rates in the Punjab, 1906-1942 pp. 327-348

Ajit K. Dasgupta

British Foreign Trade Policy in India During the Great Depression, 1929-1939 pp. 349-376

Dietmar Rothermund

Social History of a Dominant Caste Society: The Vellalar of North Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the 18th Century pp. 377-391

S. Arasaratnam

Peasant State and Society in Chola Times: A View from the Tiruvidaimarudur Urban Complex pp. 393-395

Kenneth R. Hall

Volume 18, issue 2, 1981

India's Working Class Revolt: Punnapra-Vayalar and the Communist "Conspiracy" of 1946 pp. 97-122

Robin Jeffrey

Masters and Servants in Sri Lankan Plantations: Labour Laws and Labour Control in an Emergent Export Economy pp. 123-158

Vijaya Samaraweera

How Custom-bound is the Indian Farmer? pp. 159-188

V.K. Ohri

Bombay and the West Coast in the 1740's pp. 189-216

Lakshmi Subramanian

Book Reviews: SISIR KUMAR DAS, Sahibs and Munshis: An Account of the College of Fort William, Orion Publications (Distributors: R.upa and Co.), New Delhi, 1978, pp. xv+192, Rs 45 pp. 217-218

Andre Beteille

Book Reviews: T. SCARLETT EPSTEIN, Capitalism, Primitive and Modern: Some Aspects of Tolai Economic Growth, Delhi, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Second Edition, 1979, pp. 182, Rs 50 pp. 218-220

S.M. Batra

Book Reviews: DOH JOON-CHIEN, Eastern Intellectuals and Western Solutions: Follower Syndrome in Asia, Vikas Publishing House, 1980, pp. 156, Rs 60 pp. 220-222

S. Guhan

Book Reviews: KRIPA SHANKAR, Concealed Tenancy and its Implications for Equity and Economic Growth, New Delhi, Concept Publishing Company, 1980, pp. 147, Rs 42 pp. 222-223

K. Subbarao

Book Reviews: RAMASHRAYA SHARMA, A Socio-political Study of the VÄ lmÄ«ki RÄ mÄ yana, New Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1971, pp. xxii+472, Rs 50 pp. 223-225

Stella Sandahl

Book Reviews: RHODA LOIS BLUMBERG AND LEELA DWARAKI, India's Educated Women— Options and Constraints, New Delhi, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, 1980, pp. xii+172, Rs 60 pp. 225-226

Devaki Jain

Book Reviews: J.T.F. JORDENS, Swami Shraddhananda: His Life and Causes, Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 210, Rs 90 pp. 226-229

Prabha Dixit

Volume 18, issue 1, 1981

The Great Depression and British Financial Policy in India, 1929-34 pp. 1-17

Dietmar Rothermund

The Darogah and the Countryside: The Imposition of Police Control in Bengal and its Impact (1793—1837) pp. 19-42

Basudev Chatterji

The Muscles of Empire—Indian Seamen and the Raj 1919-1939 pp. 43-67

F.J.A. Broeze

British Expansion in North India: The Role of the Resident in Awadh pp. 69-82

Michael H. Fisher

Book Reviews: D. ROTHERMUND and D.C. WADHWA (eds.), Zamindars, Mines and Peasants: Studies in the History of an Indian Coalfield and its Rural Hinterland, South Asia Interdisciplinary Regional Research Programme, Dhanbad Research Project Report, Manohar Publications, New Delhi, 1978. Rs 60. pp. 236+xiii pp. 83-85

Colin Simmons

Book Reviews: CLAUDE ALVARES, Homo Faber: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West; 1500 to the Present Day, (Allied Publishers, Bombay, 1979), pp. xiii+275, Rs 60 pp. 85-86

Sudipto Bhattacharya

Book Reviews: KENNETH W. JONES, Arya Dharma—Hindu Consciousness in Nineteenth Century Punjab, New Delhi, Manohar Book Service, 1796, pp. xvi + 343 pp. 86-88

Amba Prasad

Book Reviews: ASHIS NANDY, Alternative Sciences, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1980 pp. 155, Rs 40 pp. 88-90

Shiv Vishwanathan

Book Reviews: MEGHNAD DESAI, Marxian Economics, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1979 Pp. 265+xii pp. 90-92

Pulin B. Nayak

Book Reviews: MADELEINE LY-TIO-FANE: Pierre Sonnerat, 1748-1814, Mauritius, 1976, pp. 157, Illustrations & Plates, price not stated pp. 92-96

Aniruddha Ray

Volume 17, issue 4, 1980

The Abolition of the Cotton Excise, 1925: A Study in Imperial Priorities pp. 355-379

Basudev Chatterji

The Delhi Proposals: A Study in Communal Politics pp. 381-396

Mushirul Hasan

The State of Research into Bene Israel Indian Jews pp. 397-408

Shalva Weil

Genesis and Operation of the Bengal State Aid to Industries Act, 19311 pp. 409-419

Iftikhar-Ul-Awwal

Book Reviews: ASHIS NANDY, At the Edge of Psychology, Essays in Politics and Culture, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1980, Pp. 133, Rs. 50 pp. 421-422

Andre Beteille

Book Reviews: C. R. BOXER, Portuguese India in the Mid-Seventeenth Century, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1980, Pp. 57, Rs 15 pp. 422-423

T.R. De Souza

Book Reviews: B. R. NANDA (ED), Essays in Modern Indian History, Oxford University Press, 1980, Pp. 252, Rs 70 pp. 423-425

Mushirul Hasan

Book Reviews: KRISHNA KUMAR TUMMALA, The Ambiguity of Ideology and Administrative Reform, Allied Publishers Private Ltd, 1979, Pp. 367, Rs 50 pp. 425-427

S. Guhan

Book Reviews: SAMUEL J. ELDERSVELD and BASHIRUDDIN AHMED, Citizens and Politics: Mass Political Behaviour in India, The University of Chicago Press, 1978, Pp. xii+351 pp. 427-429

Thomas Pantham

Volume 17, issue 3, 1980

Weavers, Merchants and Company: The Handloom Industry in Southeastern India 1750-1790* pp. 257-281

S. Arasaratnam

On South Indian Bandits and Kings pp. 283-306

David Shulman

"Lombard Street" and India: Currency Problems in the Late Nineteenth Century pp. 307-327

Arnold P. Kaminsky

Share of the Nobility in the Revenues of Akbar's Empire 1595-96 pp. 329-341

Shireen Moosvi

Book Reviews: TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA, Medieval Goa: A Socio-economic Study, New Delhi, Concept Publishing House, 1979, Rs 65 pp. 343-344

M.N. Pearson

Book Reviews: HERMANN GOETZ, Studies in the History, Religion and Art of Classical and Medieval India, edited by Hermann Kulke, South Asia Institute, Uni versity of Heidelberg, Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, Wiesbaden, 1974, Pp. 171, 38 line drawings, 31 plates, Price not stated pp. 344-348

Devangana Desai

Book Reviews: R. JEFFREY (ed.) People, Princes and Paramount Power: Society and Politics in the Indian Princely States, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1978, Rs 80 pp. 348-350

Colin Simmons

Book Reviews: ASOK MITRA, Implications of Declining Sex Ratio in India's Population (ICSSR Programme of Women's Studies), Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1979, Pp. 85, Rs 25 pp. 350-350

A. Mukul Mukherjee

Book Reviews: RAMKRISHNA MUKHERJEE, Sociology of Indian Sociology, Allied Publishers, 1979, pp. 199, Rs 50 pp. 351-352

Shiv Visvanathan

Book Reviews: JOAN M. NELSON, Access to Power, Politics and the Urban Poor in Develop ing Nations, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1979, Pp. 463, Cloth, $34.50, paper $8.75 pp. 352-353

Andre Beteille

Volume 17, issue 2, 1980

The Indigenous Irrigation Organization in South Bihar pp. 157-189

Nirmal Sengupta

Railways and Their Impact on Bengal's Economy, 1870-1920 pp. 191-209

Mukul Mukherjee

Birbhum Silk Industry: A Study of its Growth to Decline pp. 211-226

Rajan Kumar Gupta

Notes on the Textile Technology in Medieval India with Special Reference to the South pp. 227-241

Vijaya Ramaswamy

Book Reviews: Bharuci's Commentary on the Manusmrti, the Manubhasyavivarana (books 6-12) Text, Translation and Notes, Vol. I, Text pp. 14+325: Vol. II, Translation and Notes pp. 489; Edited and Translated by J. Duncan M. Derrett, Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, WIESBADEN, 1975 pp. 243-244

M.M. Patkar

Book Reviews: RICHARD MAXWELL EATON, Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India, Princeton University Press, 1978 pp. 244-246

S. Nurul Hassan

Book Reviews: S.P. Gupta, Modern India and Progress in Science and Technology, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1979 pp. 246-248

Aparna Basu

Book Reviews: ASOK MITRA, The Status of Women: Literacy and Employment (ICSSR Programme of Women's Studies—II), Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1979, Rs 20, Pp. 74. ASOK MITRA, ADHIR K. SRIMANY, and LALIT K. PATHAK, The Status of Women: Household and Non-Household Activity (ICSSR Programme of Women's Studies—III), Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1979, Rs 20, Pp. 78 pp. 248-249

Mukul Mukherjee

Book Reviews: K. SARADAMONI, Emergence of a Slave Caste: Pulayas of Kerala, People's Publishing House, New Deihi, 1980, Rs 45 pp. 250-250

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: ASOK SEN, Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar and His Elusive Milestones, Ridhi- India, Calcutta, Pp. 194, Rs 30 pp. 251-253

Suresh Sharma

Book Reviews: G.D. SHARMA, Rajput Policy—A Study of Politics and Administration of the State of Marwar, 1638-1749, Manohar, Delhi, 1977, Pp. 333, Rs 50 pp. 253-255

Harbans Mukhia

Book Reviews: PUSHPA SURI, Social Conditions in Eighteenth Century Northern India, University of Delhi, 1977, Pp. 252, Rs 58 pp. 255-255

Rajat Ray

Volume 17, issue 1, 1980

The Technology and Economy of Mughal India pp. 1-34

Irfan Habib

Assamese Agrarian Society in the Late Nineteenth Century: Roots, Structures and Trends pp. 35-94

Amalendu Guha

Banditry in Mughal India: Historical and Folk Perceptions pp. 95-120

J.F. Richards and V.N. Rao

On the Study of Conversion Movements: A Review Article and a Theoretical Note pp. 121-138

R.E. Frykenberg

Book Reviews: K.N. CHAUDHURI, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760, Cambridge University press, 1978, Pp. xviii+ 629, £ 37.50 pp. 139-142

Prakash Om

Book Reviews: A. L. EPSTEIN (Ed.), The Craft of Social Anthropology, Hindustan Publishing Corporation (I), Delhi, 1978, Pp. xxix+274, Rs 35.00 pp. 142-143

Klshav C. Kaistha

Book Reviews: CHITTABRATA PALIT, Tensions in Bengal Rural Society: Landlords, Planters and Colonial Rule 1830-1860, Progressive Publishers, Calcutta, 1975, Pp. 226 +Appendices and a map, Rs 30.00 pp. 144-145

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Book Reviews: GYANENDRA PANDEY, The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh 1926-34: A Study in Imperfect Mobilization, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1978, Pp. xvi+245 pp. 145-150

Rajat Ray

Book Reviews: JOHN PEMBLE, The Raj, the Indian Mutiny and the Kingdom of Oudh 1801-1859, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1979, Pp. 303, Rs 48 pp. 151-151

Rajat Ray

Book Reviews: GEORGE STEINER, On Difficulty and Other Essays, Oxford University Press, Pp. 209+xi, £5.50 pp. 151-153

R.A.P. Shastri

Book Reviews: MYRON WEINER and JOHN OSGOOD FIELD (Eds.), Electoral Politics in the Indian States: Three Disadvantaged Sectors, Vol. II, Manohar Book Service, Delhi, 1975, pp. xxii+199, Rs 60 pp. 153-154

Bashiruddin Ahmed

Book Reviews: A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Vrndavan Research Institute (in two parts), Vrndavan Research Institute, Vrndavan, India. Part I: compiled by R.D. Maiduly and edited by R.D. Gupta and M.L. Gupta, 1976, Pp. 409+Appendix of 118 pages; Part II: compiled by V. Hanumantachar and edited by R.D. Gupta and J.C. Wright, 1978, Pp. 459+80 pp. 154-155

B.N. Chaturvedi