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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

Volume 50, issue 4, 2013

The body and its purity: Dietary politics in colonial Bengal pp. 395-421

Utsa Ray

Political players: Courtesans of Hyderabad pp. 423-448

Karen Leonard

Denuded forests, wooded estates: Statemaking in a Janmam area of Gudalur, Tamil Nadu pp. 449-471

Ajit Menon, Christelle Hinnewinkel and Sylvie Guillerme

Roads and the Raj: The politics of road building in colonial Naga Hills, 1860s–1910s pp. 473-494

Lipokmar Dzuvichu

Anthropology of Islam: History, culture and power pp. 495-509

Irfan Ahmad

Book Review: Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia pp. 511-514

Rahul Govind

Book Review: Bacteriology in British India Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics pp. 514-516

Mridula Ramanna

Book Review: Theorizing the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee pp. 516-518

Nita Kumar

Book Review: Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography pp. 518-521

Amar Farooqui

Book Review: The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943 pp. 521-524

Rohan D’Souza

Book Review: Becoming a Borderland: Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India pp. 524-526

David Ludden

Book Review: Sentiment and Self, Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822 and Sex and Sensibility, Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822 pp. 526-528

Partho Datta

Book Review: Muslim Devotional Art in India pp. 528-530

Sandria Freitag

Book Review: Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826–2000 pp. 530-532

Velayutham Saravanan

Book Review: Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route pp. 533-534

Lakshmi Subramanian

Index to Volume L pp. 535-537

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Volume 50, issue 3, 2013

In-Disciplining Jwarasur: The Folk/Classical Divide and Transmateriality of Fevers in Colonial Bengal pp. 261-288

Projit Bihari Mukharji

The Great War and a ‘Proper’ Passport for the Colony: Border-Crossing in British India, c.1882–1922 pp. 289-315

Radhika Singha

Beyond the ‘Communal’ 1920s: The Problem of Intention, Legislative Pragmatism, and the Making of Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code pp. 317-340

Neeti Nair

The Colonial Difference between Law and Fact: Notes on the Criminal Jury in India pp. 341-363

Kalyani Ramnath

Book Review: Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India pp. 365-368

Daud Ali

Book Review: The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu pp. 368-371

Marilyn Booth

Book Review: South India Under the Cholas pp. 371-373

Whitney Cox

Book Review: Literature Culture and History in Mughal North India 1550–1800 pp. 373-375

Emma Flatt

Book Review: Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800–1920 pp. 375-378

Caroline Ford

Book Review: Globalizing Labour: Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c.1870–1945 pp. 378-380

Ian J. Kerr

Book Review: Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest, and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century pp. 381-383

Prakash Kumar

Book Review: History, Bhakti, and Public Memory: Namdev in Religious and Secular Traditions pp. 383-385

David N. Lorenzen

Book Review: Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism pp. 385-388

Felix Ohnmacht

Book Review: The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema pp. 388-390

M.K. Raghavendra

Book Review: The Flaming Feet and Other Essays: The Dalit Movement in India pp. 390-393

Ramnarayan S. Rawat

Volume 50, issue 2, 2013

Preface: Kalhaṇa’s RÄ jataraá¹…giṇī: What is it? pp. 127-130

David Shulman

Literary register and historical consciousness in Kalhaṇa: A hypothesis pp. 131-160

Whitney Cox

From conqueror to connoisseur: Kalhaṇa’s account of JayÄ pīḠa and the fashioning of Kashmir as a Kingdom of learning pp. 161-177

Yigal Bronner

ÅšÄ ntarasa in the RÄ jataraá¹…giṇī: History, epic, and moral decay pp. 179-199

Lawrence McCrea

Past as tradition, past as history: The Rajatarangini narratives in Kashmir’s Persian historical tradition pp. 201-219

Chitralekha Zutshi

History at the end of history: Śrīvara’s Jainataraṅgiṇī pp. 221-236

Luther Obrock

Temporality, narration and the problem of history: A view from Western India c. 1100–1400 pp. 237-259

Daud Ali

Volume 50, issue 1, 2013

Toward a history of devotional Vaishnavism in the West Himalayas: Kullu and the Ramanandis, c. 1500–1800 pp. 1-25

Arik Moran

The local universality of poetic pleasure: SirÄ juddin ‘Ali K- h-â€…Ä n Ä€rzu and the speaking subject* pp. 27-45

Prashant Keshavmurthy

From the Meḥ fil to the printed word: Public debate and discourse in late colonial India pp. 47-76

C. Ryan Perkins

Coming to terms with the native practitioner: Indigenous doctors in colonial service in South India, 1800–25 pp. 77-109

Niels Brimnes

Book Review: Saurabh Mishra, The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860–1920 pp. 111-113

Seema Alavi

Book Review: Chhaya Goswami, The Call of the Sea: Kachchhi Traders in Muscat and Zanzibar, c. 1800–1880 pp. 113-115

Fahad Ahmad Bishara

Book Review: Anupama Rao, The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India pp. 115-118

Charu Gupta

Book Review: Ali Anooshahr, The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam: A Comparative Study of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods pp. 118-121

Munis D. Faruqui

Book Review: Nandini Chatterjee, The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830–1960 pp. 121-123

Nita Kumar

Book Review: Dilip K. Chakrabarti, The Geographical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the Ancient Indian Dynasties pp. 123-125

Y. Subbarayalu