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Volume 55, issue 4, 2018

‘On the Colonization of India’ (1829): Public meetings, debates and later disputes pp. 463-489

Rosinka Chaudhuri

Contested lands and contentious lines: Land acquisition for the railways in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Delhi pp. 491-513

Devika Shankar

Psychiatrists and psychiatry in late colonial India pp. 515-548

Shilpi Rajpal

Social histories of exclusion and moments of resistance: The case of Muslim Julaha weavers in colonial United Provinces pp. 549-574

Santosh Kumar Rai

Book review: Ishita Banerjee-Dube, A History of Modern India, Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy and Thomas R. Trautmann, India: A Brief History of a Civilization pp. 575-578

Blessy C. Abraham

Book review: Jon Wilson, India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire pp. 578-581

Kyle Gardner

Book review: Johann Mathew, Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea pp. 581-584

Chhaya Goswami

Book review: Udaya Kumar, Writing the First Person: Literature, History, and Autobiography in Modern Kerala pp. 584-586

Kiran Keshavamurthy

Book review: Sheldon Pollock, A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics pp. 586-590

Deven M. Patel

Book review: Sudeshna Guha, Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts pp. 590-592

Swadhin Sen

Index to Volume LV pp. 593-594

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Volume 55, issue 3, 2018

Transforming skin, changing caste: Technical education in leather production in India, 1900–1950 pp. 307-343

Shahana Bhattacharya

The sovereignty of political economy: The Garos in a pre-conquest and early conquest era pp. 345-387

Sanghamitra Misra

National, modern, Hindu? The post-independence trajectory of Jalandhar’s Harballabh music festival pp. 389-418

Radha Kapuria

Hybrid affairs: Cultural histories of the East India companies pp. 419-438

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Review: Christian Lee Novetzke, The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India pp. 439-442

Prachi Deshpande

Book Review: Anshu Malhotra, Piro and the Gulabdasis: Gender, Sect, and Society in Punjab pp. 442-444

Purnima Dhavan

Book Review: Kiran Keshavamurthy, Beyond Desire: Sexuality in Modern Tamil Literature pp. 444-446

Nikhil Govind

Book Review: Arundhati Virmani, Political Aesthetics: Culture, Critique, and the Everyday pp. 446-448

Suvir Kaul

Book Review: Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds, Shifting Ground: People, Animals and Mobility in India’s Environmental History and Mahesh Rangarajan, Nature and Nation: Essays on Environmental History pp. 449-451

Mayank Kumar

Book Review: Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, Law and the Economy in Colonial India pp. 451-453

Johan Mathew

Book Review: Nasir Tyabji, Forging Capitalism in Nehru’s India: Neocolonialism and the State, c. 1940–1970 pp. 453-456

Mircea Raianu

Book Review: Peter Sutoris, Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948–1975 pp. 456-458

Tirthankar Roy

Book Review: Velcheru Narayana Rao, Text and Tradition in South India and David Shulman, Tamil: A Biography pp. 458-461

Ilanit Loewy Shacham

Volume 55, issue 2, 2018

Early years of East India Company rule in Chittagong: Violence, waste and settlement c. 1760–1790 pp. 147-181

Anandaroop Sen

Pan-Islamic bonds and interest: Ottoman bonds, Red Crescent remittances and the limits of Indian Muslim capital, 1877–1924 pp. 183-220

Michael O’Sullivan

Beyond Hindu–Muslim unity: Gandhi, the Parsis and the Prince of Wales Riots of 1921 pp. 221-247

Dinyar Patel

Sri Lanka and North India during the Gupta Period: Facts and fancy pp. 249-281

Cédric Ferrier

Governmentality, activism and representation: Dalit studies, a review essay pp. 283-293

Ramnarayan S. Rawat

Book review: Michael H. Fisher, A Short History of The Mughal Empire pp. 295-297

Meena Bhargava

Book review: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Defining Moments in Bengal: 1920–1947, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Colonial State: Theory and Practice and Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Rana P. Behal, eds, The Vernacularization of Labour Politics pp. 297-302

Amar Farooqui

Book review: Amit Kumar Gupta, Crises and Creativities: Middle Class Bhadralok in Bengal c. 1939–52, Parimal Ghosh, What Happened to the Bhadralok and Tanika Sarkar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, eds., Calcutta: The Stormy Decades pp. 302-306

Tirthankar Roy

Volume 55, issue 1, 2018

‘Bound hand and foot and handed over to the caste Hindus’: Ambedkar, untouchability and the politics of Partition pp. 1-28

Jesús Francisco Cháirez-Garza

Rethinking Majlis’ politics: Pre-1948 Muslim concerns in Hyderabad State pp. 29-52

M. A. Moid and A. Suneetha

Back from Shingly: Revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala pp. 53-76

Ophira Gamliel

Teaching development: Debates on ‘scientific agriculture’ and ‘rural reconstruction’ at Khalsa College, Amritsar, c. 1915–47 pp. 77-132

Michael Philipp Brunner

On Strangers and Commensurability in Eurasia: A View from ‘the North’ pp. 133-145

Paolo Sartori

Volume 54, issue 4, 2017

Serial fictions: Urdu print culture and the novel in colonial South Asia pp. 403-422

Jennifer Dubrow

Conceptualising the past of the Muslim community in the sixteenth century: A prosopographical study of the Ak̲h̲bÄ r al-Ak̲h̲yÄ r pp. 423-456

Sushmita Banerjee

In the king’s shadow: Petitioner-donors of eighth–ninth century PÄ la copper plate land grant charters pp. 457-476

Sanjukta Datta

The Sodhi kings in the Kaliyuga: The genealogy of the Sikh Gurus in the Bachitar Natak pp. 477-504

Hardip Singh Syan

The frayed margins of empire: Early nineteenth century Panjab and the hill states pp. 505-533

Mahesh Sharma

Volume 54, issue 3, 2017

Science at the court of the cosmocrat: Mughal India, 1531–56 pp. 295-316

Ali Anooshahr

Messianism, rationalism and inter-Asian connections: The Majalis-i Jahangiri (1608–11) and the socio-intellectual history of the Mughal ‘ulama pp. 317-338

Corinne Lefèvre

Subordinate rulers under the P–alas: Their diverse origins and shifting power relation with the king pp. 339-359

Ryosuke Furui

Policing everyday life: The FIR in the Tamil countryside, c. 1900–50 pp. 361-387

Radha Kumar

Book Review: John S. Hawley, A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement pp. 389-392

Rakesh Pandey

Book Review: Ronit Ricci, ed., Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration pp. 392-395

Bhavani Raman

Book Review: Piers Locke and Jane Buckingham, eds, Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia pp. 395-397

Nisha Poyyaprath Rayaroth

Book Review: Seema Alavi, Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire pp. 397-401

Muhammad Qasim Zaman

Volume 54, issue 2, 2017

The practice and theory of property in seventeenth-century Bengal pp. 147-182

Samuel Wright

Custodianship of Shahidganj in colonial Lahore: Land, land use and the formation of religious community, 1850–1936 pp. 183-220

Sana Haroon

Cooperative credit in colonial Bengal: An exploration in development and decline, 1905–1947 pp. 221-237

Iftekhar Iqbal

Ban and benevolence: Circus, animals and Indian state pp. 239-266

P.R. Nisha

Book Review: Thomas R. Trautmann, Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History pp. 267-268

Ali Anooshahr

Book Review: Kesavan Veluthat and Donald R. Davis, Jr., eds, Irreverent History: Essays for M.G.S. Narayanan pp. 269-271

Sivan Goren Arzony

Book Review: Shahid Amin, Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan pp. 271-274

Manan Ahmed Asif

Book Review: Kaiser Haq, The Triumph of the Snake Goddess pp. 274-277

Ishan Chakrabarti

Book Review: Rajan Gurukkal, Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations pp. 277-280

Julie A. Hanlon

Book Review: Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, eds, Speaking of the Self— Gender, Performance and Autobiography in South Asia pp. 280-282

Malavika Karlekar

Book Review: Sumbul Halim Khan, Art and Craft Workshops Under the Mughals: A Study of Jaipur Karkhanas pp. 282-284

Mayurakshi Kumar

Book Review: Mohammed Suleman Siddiqi, The Junaydi Sufis of the Deccan: Discovery of a Seventeenth Century Scroll pp. 284-286

Pia Maria Malik

Book Review: Akshaya Mukul, Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India pp. 286-288

Aakriti Mandhwani

Book Review: Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka in Ancient India pp. 288-290

Mark McClish

Book Review: C.J. Fuller and Haripriya Narasimhan, Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle-class Caste pp. 290-292

Tirthankar Roy

Book Review: Noboru Karashima, A Concise History of South India: Issues and Interpretations pp. 293-295

Margherita Trento

Volume 54, issue 1, 2017

Feeling communities: Introduction pp. 1-20

Margrit Pernau

Love and compassion for the community: Emotions and practices among North Indian Muslims, c. 1870–1930 pp. 21-42

Margrit Pernau

Campaigning for a community: Urdu literature of mobilisation and identity pp. 43-66

Christina Oesterheld

Emotions in performance: Poetry and preaching pp. 67-102

Carla Petievich and Max Stille

Feeling anger, compassion and community in popular Telugu cinema pp. 103-122

Imke Rajamani

Emotions and the micro-foundations of religious activism: The bitter-sweet experiences of ‘born-again’ Muslims in Pakistan pp. 123-145

Amélie Blom