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Volume 53, issue 4, 2016

The writerly self: Literacy, discipline and codes of conduct in early modern western India pp. 449-471

Prachi Deshpande

Religion and the emergence of print in colonial India: Arumuga Navalar’s publishing project pp. 473-500

Richard S. Weiss

Exchanging words and things: Vernacularisation of political economy in nineteenth-century Bengal pp. 501-531

Iman Mitra

The curious case of Carnatic: The last nawab of Arcot (d. 1855) and Persian literary culture pp. 533-560

Kevin L. Schwartz

Book Review: Itty Abraham, How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics pp. 561-563

G. Balachandran

Book Review: Vasudha Dalmia and Munis D. Faruqui, eds, Religious Interactions in Mughal India pp. 563-566

Jyoti Gulati Balachandran

Book Review: Bhairabi Prasad Sahu and Hermann Kulke, eds, Interrogating Political Systems: Integrative Processes and States in Pre-modern India pp. 566-569

Rajan Gurukkal

Book Review: Rana P. Behal, One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam pp. 569-571

Peter Robb

Index to Volume LIII pp. 573-574

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Volume 53, issue 3, 2016

The rise of jihÄ dic sentiments and the writing of history in sixteenth-century Kerala pp. 297-319

Ayal Amer

Bonds of love, ties of kinship? Or are there other ways of imagining the family pp. 321-342

G. Arunima

‘Plants out of place’: The ‘noxious weeds’ eradication campaign in colonial south India pp. 343-369

Natasha Nongbri

The accession of Junagadh, 1947–48: Colonial sovereignty, state violence and post-independence India pp. 371-404

Rakesh Ankit

‘Is America afraid of the truth?’ The aborted North American trip of Shapuriji Saklatvala, MP pp. 405-447

J.A. Zumoff

Volume 53, issue 2, 2016

What did Sundaria read? Hindi books from Bareilly, c. 1870 pp. 159-181

Smita Gandotra

Raids, annexation and plough: Transformation through territorialisation in nineteenth-century Chittagong Hill Tracts pp. 183-224

Tamina M. Chowdhury

Identity, autonomy and emancipation: The agendas of the Adi-Andhra movement in South India, 1917–30 pp. 225-248

N. Chandra Bhanu Murthy

A Gandhian answer to the threat of communism? Sarvodaya and postcolonial nationalism in India pp. 249-270

Taylor C. Sherman

Book Review: Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea pp. 271-273

Hilal Ahmed

Book Review: Partha Chatterjee, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Bodhisattva Kar eds, New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices pp. 274-277

Prathama Banerjee

Book Review: Iqbal Singh Sevea, The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal pp. 277-281

Faisal Devji

Book Review: Steven Wilkinson, Army and Nation pp. 281-283

Daniel Marston

Book Review: Anne Feldhaus with Ramdas Atkar and Rajaram Zagade, eds. and trans. Say to the Sun, “Don’t Rise,†and to the Moon, “Don’t Setâ€: Two Oral Narratives from the Countryside of Maharashtra pp. 283-285

Christian Lee Novetzke

Book Review: Richard B. Allen, European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean pp. 285-287

Tirthankar Roy

Book Review: Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella, eds, Islamic Reform in South Asia pp. 287-290

Iqbal Sevea

Book Review: UTSA RAY, Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle Class pp. 290-293

Jayeeta Sharma

Book Review: Upinder Singh and Parul Pandya Dhar, eds, Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories pp. 293-295

Phillip B. Wagoner

Volume 53, issue 1, 2016

Introduction: Reading the archive, reframing ‘adivasi’ histories pp. 1-8

Sangeeta Dasgupta

Ä€divÄ sÄ«s, tribes and other neologisms for erasing precolonial pasts: An example from Northeast India pp. 9-40

Indrani Chatterjee

Nomadic capital and speculative tribes: A culture of contracts in the Northeastern Frontier of British India pp. 41-67

Bodhisattva Kar

Flaming fields and forest fires: Agrarian transformations and the making of Birsa Munda’s rebellion pp. 69-98

Uday Chandra

Mapping histories: Many narratives of Tana pasts pp. 99-129

Sangeeta Dasgupta

Writing the Adivasi: Some historiographical notes pp. 131-153

Prathama Banerjee

View from outside the field: An afterword pp. 155-157

Tanika Sarkar

Volume 52, issue 4, 2015

Towards financial inclusion: The post office of India as a financial institution, 1880–2010 pp. 409-437

Chinmay Tumbe

Urban ‘Failures’: Municipal Governance, Planning and Power in Colonial Delhi, 1863–1910 pp. 439-461

Raghav Kishore

Dynamics of Bengal coal mining in the nineteenth century: Dissemination of mineralogical knowledge and railway networking pp. 463-499

Indrajit Ray

Zamindars, inheritance law and the spread of the waqf in the United Provinces at the turn of the twentieth century pp. 501-532

Anantdeep Singh

Transnational Histories and Subcontinental Pasts: A Review Essay pp. 533-545

G. Balachandran

Book Review: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-Independence West Bengal pp. 547-550

Amar Farooqui

Book Review: Francesca Orsini and Samira Sheikh, eds, After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth Century North India pp. 550-553

Emma J. Flatt

Book Review: Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, The Changing Gaze: Regions and the Constructions of Early India pp. 554-556

Ryosuke Furui

Book Review: Clive Dewey, Steamboats on the Indus pp. 556-559

Stewart Gordon

Book Review: Ghulam A. Nadri, Eighteenth-century Gujarat: The Dynamics of its Political Economy pp. 559-561

Farhat Hasan

Book Review: Indrani Chatterjee, Forgotten Friends, Monks, Marriages and Memories of Northeast India pp. 561-564

Malavika Kasturi

Book Review: Philip Oldenburg, India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths and William Gould, Taylor C. Sherman and Sarah Ansari, eds, From Subjects to Citizens: Society and Everyday State in India and Pakistan pp. 564-569

Anushay Malik

Book Review: Rama Sundari Mantena, The Origins of Modern Historiography in India: Antiquarianism and Philology pp. 569-573

Rakesh Pandey

Book Review: Kris Manjapra, Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire pp. 573-575

Chandak Sengoopta

Book Review: Sujit Sivasundaram, Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka & the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony pp. 576-578

Frances Steel

Index to Volume LII pp. 579-581

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Volume 52, issue 3, 2015

Exploring the elite world in the Siyar al-AwliyÄ â€™: Urban elites, their lineages and social networks pp. 241-270

Jyoti Gulati Balachandran

An eventful politics of difference and its afterlife: Chittagong frontier, Bengal, c. 1657–1757 pp. 271-296

Rishad Choudhury

The connected worlds of Haji Mustapha (c. 1730–91): A Eurasian cosmopolitan in eighteenth-century Bengal pp. 297-333

Robert Travers

Genealogies of the Dalit political: The transformation of Achhut from ‘Untouched’ to ‘Untouchable’ in early twentieth-century north India pp. 335-355

Ramnarayan Rawat

Domesticating electric power: Growth of industry, utilities and research in colonial Calcutta pp. 357-389

Suvobrata Sarkar

Book Review: Rosalind O’Hanlon, At the Edges of Empire: Essays in the Social and Intellectual History of India pp. 391-393

Ali Anooshahr

Book Review: James Mchugh, Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture pp. 393-395

Jesse Ross Knutson

Book Review: Chandra Mallampalli, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family pp. 396-398

Elizabeth Kolsky

Book Review: Chitralekha Zutshi, Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies and the Historical Imagination pp. 398-400

Anubhuti Maurya

Book Review: Nikhil Govind, Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel pp. 400-404

Simona Sawhney

Book Review: Janaki Nair, Mysore Modern: Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule and Aya Ikegame, Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the Present pp. 404-408

Chitralekha Zutshi

Volume 52, issue 2, 2015

Bazaars, landlords and the Company government in late eighteenth-century Calcutta pp. 121-146

Kaustubh Mani Sengupta

The geography of weaving in early nineteenth-century south India pp. 147-184

Karuna Dietrich Wielenga

Universal self, equality and hierarchy in Swami Vivekananda pp. 185-205

A. Raghuramaraju

Pre-modern intellectual debates on the knowledge of history and ẒiyÄ Í— al-DÄ«n Baranī’s TÄ rÄ«kh-i FÄ«rÅ«zshÄ hÄ« pp. 207-223

Blain Auer

Book Review: Michael S. Dodson, Orientalism, Empire and National Culture: India, 1770–1880 pp. 225-227

Ishita Banerjee

Book Review: Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760–1950): Tobacco Betwixt Indigo and Sugarcane and Prakash Kumar, Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India pp. 227-231

Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul

Book Review: Awadhendra Sharan, In the City, Out of Place: Nuisance, Pollution, and Dwelling in Delhi, c. 1850–2000 pp. 231-233

Raghav Kishore

Book Review: Faisal Devji, The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence pp. 233-236

Nita Kumar

Book Review: V. Rajesh, Manuscripts, Memory and History: Classical Tamil Literature in Colonial India pp. 236-238

Eva Wilden

Book Review: Gunell Cederlöf, Founding an Empire on India’s North-Eastern Frontiers 1790–1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity pp. 238-240

David Vumlallian Zou

Volume 52, issue 1, 2015

Trial, error and economic development in colonial Punjab: The Agri-Horticultural Society, the state and sericulture experiments, c. 1840–70 pp. 1-27

Jagjeet Lally

Battling the bottle: Experiments in regulating drink in late colonial Madras pp. 29-51

Nikhil Menon

Textbook difference: Spatial history and national education in Panchayat and present-day Nepal pp. 53-78

Rune Bolding Bennike

Ambedkar’s paradox of differentiation: Language, nation and recognition of states in post-colonial India pp. 79-108

Vasudha Bharadwaj

Book Review: RONIT RICCI, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia pp. 109-111

Manan Ahmed Asif

Book Review: ARUPJYOTI SAIKIA, A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900 pp. 111-114

Upal Chakrabarti

Book Review: NITIN SINHA, Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880s pp. 114-115

Tirthankar Roy

Book Review: KAVITA PANJABI, ed. Poetics and Politics of Sufism and Bhakti in South Asia: Love, Loss and Liberation; MADHU TRIVEDI, The Emergence of the Hindustani Tradition: Music, Dance and Drama in North India, 13th to 19th Centuries and T. K. VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, Music as History in Tamilnadu pp. 116-119

Katherine Butler Schofield