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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

Volume 51, issue 4, 2014

Ghosts from the past: India’s undead languages pp. 405-456

Andrew Ollett

Money use in the Deccan, c. 1350–1687: The role of Vijayanagara hons in the Bahmani currency system pp. 457-480

Phillip B. Wagoner

The authorial problem in the á¸´áº–Ä liq BÄ rÄ« of ‘Ḵẖusrau’ pp. 481-496

Walter N. Hakala

‘I do not envy you’: Mixed marriages and immigration debates in the 1920s and 1930s Rangoon, Burma pp. 497-527

Rajashree Mazumder

Breaking up: Dividing assets between India and Pakistan in times of Partition pp. 529-548

Anwesha Sengupta

Book Review: National Archives of India, Imperial Records Department, Calendar of Persian Correspondence: Being Letters, referring mainly to Affairs in Bengal, which passed between some of the Company’s Servants and Indian Rulers and Notables, Vols I-V pp. 549-553

P.K. Yasser Arafath

Book Review: Veronique Benei, Schooling India: Hindus, Muslims and the Forging of Citizens pp. 553-555

Sangeeta Kamat

Book Review: Smritikumar Sarkar, Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India 1830–1980 pp. 555-557

Ian J. Kerr

Book Review: Gaurav Desai, Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination pp. 557-560

Jonathan Walz

Index to Volume LI pp. 561-563

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Volume 51, issue 3, 2014

The Dark Period: Myth or reality? pp. 283-302

Valérie Gillet

The merchant gurus: Sikhism and the development of the medieval Khatri merchant family pp. 303-330

Hardip Singh Syan

Shirazi scholars and the political culture of the sixteenth-century Indo-Persian world pp. 331-352

Ali Anooshahr

A petition-like application? Rhetoric and rationing documents in wartime Delhi, 1941–45 pp. 353-382

Tarangini Sriraman

Book Review: Carla Bellamy, The Powerful Ephemeral. Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place pp. 383-385

Seema Alavi

Book Review: Tanvir Anjum, Chishti Sufis in the Sultanate of Delhi 1190–1400: From Restrained Indifference to Calculated Defiance pp. 385-387

Sushmita Banerjee

Book Review: Julie E. Hughes, Animal Kingdoms: Hunting Environment and Power in India pp. 387-389

Divyabhanusinh Chavda

Book Review: Neeti Nair, Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India pp. 389-392

Indivar Kamtekar

Book Review: David Arnold, Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity pp. 392-394

Tirthankar Roy

Book Review: Irfan Habib and Faiz Habib, Atlas of Ancient Indian History pp. 394-399

Y. Subbarayalu

Book Review: M.G.S. Narayanan, Perumals of Kerala: Brahmin Oligarchy and Ritual Monarchy, Political and Social Conditions of Kerala under the Cera Perumals of Makotai (c. AD 800–1124) pp. 399-403

Y. Subbarayalu

Volume 51, issue 2, 2014

From serosocial to sanguinary identities: Caste, transnational race science and the shifting metonymies of blood group B, India c. 1918–1960 pp. 143-176

Projit Bihari Mukharji

Desecrating the sacred taste: The making of Gurram Jashua—the father of dalit literature in Telugu pp. 177-198

Chinnaiah Jangam

Challenges in the history of colours: The case of saffron pp. 199-229

Sadan Jha

The genesis of hospital medicine in India: The Calcutta Medical College (CMC) and the emergence of a new medical epistemology pp. 231-264

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Book Review: Partho Datta, Planning the City: Urbanization and Reform in Calcutta c. 1800–1940 pp. 265-267

Veena Talwar Oldenburg

Book Review: Aditya Behl, Love’s Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379–1545 pp. 267-271

Francesca Orsini

Book Review: Rachel Sturman, The Government of Social Life in Colonial India. Liberalism, Religious Law and Women’s Rights pp. 271-273

Rashmi Pant

Book Review: Andrew J. May, Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-east India pp. 274-276

Jayeeta Sharma

Book Review: Shobna Nijhawan, Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere: Periodical Literature in Colonial North India pp. 276-279

Ulrike Stark

Book Review: Ruth Vanita, Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780–1870 pp. 279-282

Anand Vivek Taneja

Volume 51, issue 1, 2014

Beyond the local and the universal: Exclusionary strategies of expansive literary cultures in fifteenth century Mithila pp. 1-40

Pankaj Kumar Jha

Perfumed the axe that laid it low: The endangerment of sandalwood in southern India pp. 41-70

Ezra D. Rashkow

‘Pet ke waaste’: Rights, resistance and the East Indian Railway Strike, 1922 pp. 71-94

Silas Webb

The origin of the controlling power of managing agents over modern business enterprises in colonial India pp. 95-132

Chikayoshi Nomura

Book Review: Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal pp. 133-135

Ishita Banerjee-Dube

Book Review: Alimentary Tracks: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial pp. 135-138

Daniel Bender

Book Review: Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India pp. 138-140

Amandeep Singh Gill

Book Review: The Trading World of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800 pp. 140-142

Tirthankar Roy