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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

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