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Volume 16, issue 4, 1979

Development of Modern Elite Retailing in Calcutta, 1880-19201 pp. 377-394

Christine Furedy

Henry Fawcett and the British Empire pp. 395-414

John Wood

Population of Marwar in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century pp. 415-427

B.L. Bhadant

Book Reviews: B.D. CHATTOPADHYAYA, Coins and Currency Systems in South India, c. AD 225-1300, Munshiram Manoharlal Oriental Book Publishers, New Delhi, 1977, Pp. xiv+352, 8 plates, Rs 110 pp. 429-431

Pratipal Bhatia

Book Reviews: K.N. CHAUDHURI and CLIVE J. DEWEY (Eds.), Economy and Society: Essays in Indian Economic and Social History, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1979, Pp. x+358, Rs 85 pp. 431-433

Michelle McAlpin

Book Reviews: CLIVE DEWEY and A.G. HOPKINS (Eds.), The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of Africa and India, The Athlone Press, Univer sity of London, 1978, Pp. 409, £ 12.50 pp. 433-435

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: VIDYA DEHEJIA, Early Stone Temples of Orissa, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1979, Pp. 217, Rs 125 pp. 435-437

C. Sivaramamurti

Book Reviews: K. L. GILLION, The Fiji Indians—Challenge to European Dominance, 1920-46, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1977 pp. 437-439

Lalita Chakravarty

Book Reviews: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics and the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India, 1500 to 1947, Vol. I (Parts 1-4), Vol. II (Parts 5-6), Pune, 1977, Pp. 241 and 318, Rs 200 per volume pp. 439-440

J. Krishnamurty

Book Reviews: B. N. GOSWAMY, Painters at the Sikh Court: A Study based on Twenty Documents, Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, Wiesbaden, 1975, Pp. 146 (19 plates in b/w) pp. 440-441

Partha Mitter

Book Reviews: M. MUFAKHARUL ISLAM, Bengal Agriculture 1920-1946: A Quantitative Study, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, 1978, Pp. iv + 283, £12.50 pp. 442-445

Ashok V. Desai

Book Reviews: D.A. Low (Ed.), Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle, 1917-47, New Delhi, Arnold-Heinemann, 1977, Pp. xiv+514, maps pp. 445-448

Partha Sarathi Gupta

Book Reviews: PRASANTA S. MAJUMDAR and ILA MAJUMDAR, Rural Migrants in an Urban Setting, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Delhi, 1979, Pp. 176, Rs 50 pp. 448-449

Ashish Bose

Book Reviews: JAMES MANOR, Political Change in an Indian State—Mysore, 1917-55, New Delhi, Manohar, 1977, Pp. xii+261, Rs 45 pp. 449-451

Raman Mahadevan

Volume 16, issue 3, 1979

Comparative Agrarian Relations in Karnataka (South India) and Hausaland (Northern Nigeria) pp. 243-267

Polly Hill

Appendix II pp. 268-271

N/a

Forest Management and Imperial Politics: Thana District, Bombay, 1823-188.7 pp. 273-300

Richard Tucker

Wages Data from the Private Agricultural Accounts, Nellore District, 1893-1974 pp. 301-321

M. Atchi Reddy

The Alienation of Weavers: Impact of the Conflict between the Revenue and Commercial Interests of the East India Company, 1750-1800 pp. 323-345

Hameeda Hossain

Patronage and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu: A Long-term View pp. 347-365

David Ludden

Book Reviews: IMTIAZ AHMAD (Ed.), Caste and Social Stratification among Muslims in India (2nd edn.), Manohar, 1978, Pp. 318, Rs 65. IMTIAZ AHMAD (Ed.), Family, Kinship, and Marriage among Muslims in India, Manohar, 1976, Pp. 367, Rs 75 pp. 367-368

Veena Das

Book Reviews: UMA DAS GUPTA, Rise of an Indian Public, RDDHI, Calcutta, 1977, Pp. 332, Rs 60 pp. 368-370

Aparna Basu

Book Reviews: VINA MAZUMDAR (Ed.), Symbols of Power: Studies on the Political Status of Women in India, Allied Publishers Private Limited, Bombay, 1979, Pp. xxiv +373, Rs 60 pp. 370-370

Michelle McAlpin

Book Reviews: RAJAT K. RAY, Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914-47, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1979, Pp. xi+ 384, Rs 80 pp. 370-373

Morris David Morris

Book Reviews: M.H. SIDDIQI, Agrarian Unrest in North India: The United Provinces, 1918-22, Vikas, New Delhi, 1978, Pp. xvii+247, Rs 60 pp. 373-374

Gyan Pandey

Book Reviews: BINDESHWARI PRASAD SINHA (Ed.), The Comprehensive History of Bihar, Volume I, Parts I and II, Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna, Pp. 2000, Rs 120 pp. 374-375

Girish Mishra

Volume 16, issue 2, 1979

The Deindustrialization of India in the Nineteenth Century: A Methodological Critique of Amiya Kumar Bagchi pp. 105-143

Marika Vicziany

A Reply pp. 147-161

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Agricultural Credit Cooperatives in Madras, 1893-1937: Rural Development and Agrarian Politics in Pre-independence India pp. 163-184

Bruce L. Robert

The Economic Consequences of Indirect Rule in India: A Re-appraisal pp. 185-206

C.P. Simmons and B.R. Satyanarayana

Agrarian Conditions in Assam, 1880-1890: A Case Study of Five Districts of the Brahmaputra Valley pp. 207-232

Aditya Mukherjee

Book Reviews: AKBAR S. AHMED, Millennium and Charisma among Pathans: A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976. Pp. xvii+173, £4.95 pp. 233-234

Ashis Nandy

Book Reviews: BIPLAB DASGUPTA with ROY LAISHLEY, HENRY LUCAS and BRIAN MITCHELL, Village Society and Labour Use, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. vi+229, Rs 40 pp. 234-236

Iqbal Ahmed

Book Reviews: NEERA DESAI, Social Change in Gujarat, Bombay, Vera and Co., Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Rs 50 pp. 236-238

Aparna Basu

Book Reviews: AUSTIN A. D'SOUZA, Anglo-Indian Education: A Study of its Origins and Growth in Bengal up to 1960, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. 344, Rs 60 pp. 238-239

Uma Das Gupta

Book Reviews: AMIT KUMAR GUPTA, North West Frontier Province Legislature and Freedom Struggle (1932-47), I.C.H.R., Pp. 239, Rs 30 pp. 239-240

Aparna Basu

Book Reviews: S. R. MEHROTRA, Towards India's Freedom and Partition, New Delhi, Vikas, 1979, Pp. 322, Rs 60 pp. 240-242

Rajat K. Ray

Volume 16, issue 1, 1979

Man, Woman and the Novel: The Rise of a New Consciousness in Bengal (1858-1947) pp. 1-31

Rajat K. Ray

Underdevelopment, Past and Present—Some Comparisons of Pre-Industrial Levels of Living—II pp. 33-52

Ajit K. Dasgupta

Agrarian Relations in North Bihar: Peasant Protest and the Darbhanga Raj, 1919-20 pp. 53-75

Stephen Henningham

Appendix pp. 76-83

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Land-System as Reflected in Kautilya's ArthaÅ›Ä stra pp. 85-95

Sibesh Bhattacharya

Book Reviews: ELLIOTT JAQUES, A General Theory of Bureaucracy, London, Heinemann. Pp. xiii+412, Rs 6.80 pp. 97-97

E.A. Ramaswamy

Book Reviews: JOHN R. McLANE, Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress, Princeton University Press, 1977, Pp. xii+404, Rs $25 pp. 98-99

Gail Minault

Book Reviews: FRANK F. CONLON, A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans 1700-1935, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, Berkeley, New Delhi, 1977, Pp. xv+255, Rs 80 pp. 99-101

Ashin Das Gupta

Book Reviews: A.H. FRANCKE, A History of Ladakh, Critical Introduction by S.S. Girgan and F.M. Hassnain, Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, Pp. 225, Rs 60 pp. 101-102

M.L. Pandit

Book Reviews: GIRISH MISHRA, Agrarian Problems of Permanent Settlement: A Case Study of Champaran, Peoples' Publishing House, New Delhi, 1978, Pp. xiii+354, Rs 45 pp. 102-104

Stephen Henningham

Volume 15, issue 4, 1978

Development Strategy: Class and Regional Interests of the Ruling Elites in Pakistan pp. 421-452

Emajuddin Ahmed

Officjal Data on Agricultural Wages in the Madras Presidency from 1873 pp. 451-466

M. Atchi Reddy

Survey of Material in Marathi on the Economic and Social History of India—4 pp. 467-503

V.D. Divekar

The Trade of the Central Provinces of India (1861-1880) pp. 505-515

N. Benjamin

Who Really Ruled Madras Presidency? pp. 517-519

David Ludden

On the Applicability of the Concept of Sanskritization: Comment on Hetukar Jha pp. 521-523

Leela Dube

Book Reviews: AMALENDU GUHA, Planter Raj to Swaraj, ICHR, New Delhi, 1977, Pp. xx+392, Rs 45 pp. 525-526

J.B. Bhattacharjee

Book Reviews: P.J. MARSHALL, East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1976, Pp. 284, £ 7.75 pp. 526-528

Prakash Om

Book Reviews: JOAN P. MENCHER, Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects, New Delhi, Allied Publishers, 1978, Pp. 304, Rs 60 pp. 528-530

B.H. Farmer

Book Reviews: ATUL CHANDRA ROY, A History of Mughal Navy and Naval Warfares, Cal cutta, The World Press Ltd, 1972, Pp. 164. B.K. APTE, History of the Maratha Navy and Merchantships, State Board for Literature and Culture, Bombay, 1973, Pp. 311, 40 figures, 17 plates pp. 530-533

Jean Deloche

Book Reviews: R.B.P. SINGH, Jainism in Early Medieval Karnataka (c. A.D. 500-1200), Motilal Banarasidas, Delhi, Rs 35 pp. 533-536

R. Champakalakshmi

Book Reviews: STANLEY WOLPERT, A New History of India, New York, Oxford University Press, 1977, Pp. 471+Bibliography, Index, Glossary pp. 536-537

Mario D. Zamora

Book Reviews: H. VENKATASUBBIAH, Enterprise and Economic Change: 50 Years of FICCI, Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, 1977, Pp. x + 176, Rs 45 pp. 537-539

Dwijendra Tripathi

Volume 15, issue 3, 1978

Emergence of an Industrial Labour Force in a Dual Economy-British India, 1880-1920 pp. 249-327

Lalita Takravarty

Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Colonial Burma—An Exploratory Study of the Role of Nattukottai Chettiars of Tamil Nadu, 1880-1930 pp. 329-358

Raman Mahadevan

The Zamindars' Share in the Peasant Surplus in the Mughal Empire—Evidence of the Ain-i-Akbari Statistics pp. 359-373

Shireen Moosvi

Survey of Material in Marathi on the Economic and Social History of India—3 pp. 375-407

V.D. Divekar

Book Reviews: RICHARD G. Fox (ed.), Realm and Region in Traditional India, New Delhi, Vikas, 1977. Pp. 307, Rs 60 pp. 409-409

Tom Timberg

Book Reviews: A.D.D. GORDON, Businessmen and Politics—Rising Nationalism and a Moderni zing Economy in Bombay, 1918-1933, Australian National University Monographs on South Asia, No. 3, Manohar Publications, New Delhi, 1978, Pp.xiv+323, Rs 50 pp. 410-410

Tom Timberg

Book Reviews: M.N. PEARSON, Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portu guese in the Sixteenth Century, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1976, Pp. xii+178, Rs 50 pp. 410-415

Arun Dasgupta

Book Reviews: O.P. SINGH, Surat and its Trade in the Second Half of the 17th Century, Uni versity of Delhi, 1975, Pp. 223, Rs 50 pp. 415-416

Ashin Das Gupta

Book Reviews: THOMAS A. TIMBERG, The Marwaris—From Traders to Industrialists, Delhi, Vikas, 1977, Rs 60 pp. 416-419

C.A. Bayly

Volume 15, issue 2, 1978

The Rupee/Pound Exchange in the 1920s pp. 133-150

J.D. Tomlinson

The Diary of a Road: A Sequential Narration of the Origins of the Lucknow-Kanpur Road (1825-1856) pp. 151-172

Robert Gabriel Varady

Revenue Administration and Agricultural Statistics in Bombay Presidency pp. 173-185

Ashok V. Desai

A Further Critique of Historical Yields Per Acre in India pp. 187-210

Alan Heston

Land, Soil, Rainfall, Irrigation—Some Aspects of the Backdrop of Agrarian Life in the ArthaÅ›Ä stra of Kautilya pp. 211-219

Sibesh Bhattacharya

Survey of Material in Marathi on the Economic and Social History of India—2 pp. 221-240

V.D. Divekar

Book Reviews: LOUIS DUMONT, From Mandeville to Marx-The Genesis and Triumph of Eco nomic Ideology, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1977, Pp. 236 pp. 241-244

Sukhamoy Chakravarty

Book Reviews: AMAL KUMAR CHATTOPADHYAYA, Slavery in India, London, The Golden Eagle Publishing House, 1977, Pp. xv+278, Rs 60 pp. 245-246

Mukul Mukherjee

Book Reviews: KRISHNA CHANDRA JENA, Socio-Economic History of Orissa during the 19th Century, Sandeep Prakashan, Delhi, 1978, Pp. 171 (with a bibliography), Rs 48 pp. 246-247

Bidyut Mohanty

Volume 15, issue 1, 1978

The Non-Brahmin Movement in Kolhapur pp. 1-19

Chandra Y. Mudaliar

The Functions of Hindu Social Reformers— With Special Reference to Kerala pp. 21-39

Charles H. Heimsath

Underdevelopment, Past and Present— Some Comparisons of Pre-Industrial Levels of Living pp. 41-52

Ajit K. Dasgupta

Population and Standards of Living in Akbar's Time—A Second Look pp. 53-79

Ashok V. Desai

Survey of Material in Marathi on the Economic and Social History of India—1 pp. 81-117

V.D. Divekar

Book Reviews: A.L. BASHAM (ed.), A Cultural History of India, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975, Pp. 585 pp. 119-120

Dharma Kumar

Book Reviews: ABUL KHAIR MUHAMMAD FAROOQUE, Roads and Communications in Mughal India, Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, Delhi, 1977, Pp. xxviii+248, Rs 70 pp. 120-122

Jean Deloche

Book Reviews: B.R. NANDA, Gokhale: The Indian Moderates and the British Raj, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977, Pp. 580, Rs 80 pp. 122-125

Richard Tucker

Book Reviews: DEEPAK NAYYAR, India's Exports and Export Policies in the 1960's, South Asian Studies No. 19, Cambridge University Press and Blackie and Son (India) Limited, Cambridge, 1976, Pp xviii +392, Rs 80 pp. 125-126

P.B. Mongia

Book Reviews: HEATHER and VIJAY JOSHI, Surplus Labour and the City: A Study of Bombay, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1976 pp. 126-127

J. Krishnamurty

Book Reviews: PRAKASH CHARAN PRASAD, Foreign Trade and Commerce in Ancient India, New Delhi, 1977, Pp. 255 pp. 127-132

Jean Deloche