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Volume 56, issue 4, 2019

Vaccinating against Vasoori: Eradicating smallpox in the ‘model’ princely state of Travancore, 1804–1946 pp. 361-386

Aparna Nair

Transformation and decline of Sawng: The socio-cultural effects of migration and the changes in intercommunity relations in Calcutta c.1870–1930 pp. 387-409

Rajat Kanti Sur

Invoking ‘Hindu’ Ayurveda: Communalisation of the late colonial Ayurvedic discourse pp. 411-426

Saurav Kumar Rai

Owners, creditors and traders: Women in late colonial Calcutta pp. 427-456

Ishita Chakravarty

In the hands of a ‘secular state’: Meos in the aftermath of Partition, 1947–49 pp. 457-488

Rakesh Ankit

Changing the guard: The dissolution of the nationalist–Marxist orthodoxy in the agrarian and agricultural history of India pp. 489-509

Clive Dewey

Book review: Jangkhomang Guite, Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India pp. 511-514

Sanghamitra Misra

Book review: Gagan D. S. Sood, India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-century World of Circulation and Exchange pp. 515-517

Tirthankar Roy

Book review: Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Sarvani Gooptu, eds, On Modern Indian Sensibilities: Culture, Politics, History pp. 517-519

Chandak Sengoopta

Book review: Dwaipayan Sen, The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal pp. 519-522

Geetha V.

Book review: Sadan Jha, Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag pp. 522-524

Arundhati Virmani

Index to Volume LVI pp. 525-526

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Volume 56, issue 3, 2019

By way of an introduction: Innovations in Telugu cultural history pp. 247-251

Velcheru Narayana Rao

Kṣētrayya: The making of a Telugu poet pp. 253-282

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

The Andhra Sahitya Parishat: Language, nation and empire in colonial South India (1911–15) pp. 283-310

Gautham Reddy

Expanding domains and the personal, imperial style of KṛṣṇadevarÄ ya pp. 311-337

Ilanit Loewy Shacham

Reading and re-reading the Vasu-caritramu pp. 339-360

David Shulman

Volume 56, issue 2, 2019

Dalits and the Raj: The persistence of the Jatavs in the United Provinces pp. 119-145

Ian Duncan

Jayaprakash Narayan and the politics of reconciliation for the postcolonial state and its imperial fragments pp. 147-169

Lydia Walker

Premchand, nationalism and civil resistance in colonial North India pp. 171-194

Shailendra Kumar Singh

Historiography, fieldwork and popular Sufi shrines in the Indian Punjab pp. 195-226

Yogesh Snehi

Book review: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis pp. 227-230

Burton Cleetus

Book review: Whitney Cox, Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain pp. 230-232

Manu V. Devadevan

Book review: Ismail K. Poonawala, ed., Turks in the Indian Subcontinent, Central and West Asia: The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World pp. 232-234

Roy S. Fischel

Book review: Aparna Kapadia, In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-century Gujarat pp. 235-237

Sneh Jha

Book review: Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana, eds, Dalit Studies pp. 237-241

Aishwary Kumar

Book review: Neeladri Bhattacharya, The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World pp. 241-245

Rashmi Pant

Volume 56, issue 1, 2019

India beyond the Ganges: Defining Arakanese Buddhism in Persianate colonial Bengal pp. 1-31

Thibaut d’Hubert

Gendered lives in vernacular fiction: Redefining family in Hindi short stories of the early 1940s pp. 33-51

Shobna Nijhawan

The economic power of women in early South Asian Buddhism pp. 53-76

Matthew D. Milligan

The problem with neera: The (un)making of a national drink in late colonial India pp. 77-97

Darinee Alagirisamy

Book Review: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee, eds, India and Iran in the Longue Durée pp. 99-101

Deeksha Bharadwaj

Book Review: Manjil Hazarika, Prehistory and Archaeology of Northeast India: Multidisciplinary Investigation in an Archaeological Terra Incognita pp. 101-103

Sanjukta Datta

Book Review: Aakash Singh Rathore and Rimina Mohapatra, Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, with Texts pp. 103-105

J. M. Fritzman

Book Review: Ashutosh Kumar, Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830–1920 pp. 105-107

Ruben Gowricharn

Book Review: Priya Maholay-Jaradi, Fashioning a National Art: Baroda’s Royal Collection and Art Institutions (1875–1924) pp. 107-109

Sudeshna Guha

Book Review: Moin Ahmad Nizami, Reform and Renewal in South Asian Islam: The Chishti-Sabris in 18th–19th Century North India pp. 110-112

Brannon D. Ingram

Book Review: Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu, eds, Medical Encounters in British India; Samiksha Sehrawat, Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender State and Society c. 1840–1920; Poonam Bala, ed., Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India; and Madhuri Sharma, Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India pp. 112-116

Madhwi

Book Review: Aparajith Ramnath, The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State, 1900–1947 pp. 116-118

Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

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