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Volume 49, issue 4, 2012

Introduction pp. 455-457

Manan Ahmed

The long thirteenth century of the Chachnama pp. 459-491

Manan Ahmed

Peering through the cracks in the Baburnama: The textured Lives of Mughal sovereigns pp. 493-526

A. Azfar Moin

Marvellous histories: Reading the ShÄ hnÄ mah in India* pp. 527-556

Pasha M. Khan

Saintly visions: Other histories and history’s others in the medieval ruins of Delhi pp. 557-590

Anand Vivek Taneja

Book Review: Albrecht Fuess and Jan-Peter Hartung, eds., Court Culture in the Muslim World: Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries pp. 591-593

Ali Anooshahr

Book Review: Arup Banerji, Old Routes-North Indian Nomads and Bankers in Afghan, Uzbek and Russian Lands pp. 593-596

Suchandana Chatterjee

Book Review: Bishnupriya Ghosh, Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular pp. 596-598

Jeremy Prestholdt

Book Review: Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran, and Rohan D’Souza, eds., The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia and Bhangya Bhukya, Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas under the Rule of the Nizams pp. 598-601

Tirthankar Roy

Book Review: Farina Mir, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab pp. 601-604

Nonica Datta

Book Review: Toby E. Huff, Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective pp. 604-606

Anjana Singh

Book Review: Urmila Pawar, The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs and Ravikumar, Venomous Touch: Notes on Caste, Culture and Politics pp. 606-609

Manu Bhagavan

Book Review: Kesavan. Veluthat, The Early Medieval in South India pp. 609-612

Daud Ali

Index to Volume XLIX pp. 613-614

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Volume 49, issue 3, 2012

Something like rights? Faith, law and widow immolation debates in colonial Bengal pp. 295-320

Tanika Sarkar

‘No matter how, Jogendranath had to be defeated’: The Scheduled Castes Federation and the making of partition in Bengal, 1945–1947 pp. 321-364

Dwaipayan Sen

Population, labour and living standards in early modern Ceylon: An empirical contribution to the divergence debate pp. 365-398

Pim de Zwart

Sending out the spears: Zeliangrong movement, Naga Club and a nation in the making pp. 399-437

John Thomas

Book Review: Border, Histories, Existences: Gender and Beyond pp. 439-441

David Vumlallian Zou

Book Review: Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration pp. 441-443

Shonaleeka Kaul

Book Review: A Princess’s Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum’s A Pilgrimage to Mecca pp. 444-446

Barbara N. Ramusack

Book Review: Language, Emotion, & Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue pp. 446-450

Rama Sundari Mantena

Book Review: Western Himalayan Temple Records: State, Pilgrimage, Ritual and Legality in ChambÄ pp. 450-452

Véronique Bouillier

Book Review: Living the Body: Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India pp. 452-454

Eleanor Newbigin

Volume 49, issue 2, 2012

Strategy and imagination in a Mughal Sufi story of creation pp. 151-195

Muzaffar Alam

Author of one’s fate: Fatalism and agency in Indo-Persian histories pp. 197-224

Ali Anooshahr

How to do multilingual literary history? Lessons from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century north India pp. 225-246

Francesca Orsini

Claiming histories beyond nations: Situating global history pp. 247-272

G. Balachandran

Book Review: Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750–1830: The Social Condition of a Dutch Community in an Indian Milieu pp. 273-275

Zoltán Biedermann

Book Review: A National Flag for India: Rituals, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sentiment pp. 275-277

Sumathi Ramaswamy

Book Review: Husain Ahmad Madani: The Jihad for Islam and India’s Freedom pp. 277-280

Sana Haroon

Book Review: Landscapes and the Law: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories, and Contests over Nature pp. 280-282

Ezra Rashkow

Book Review: The Cultures of History in Early Modern Bengal: Persianization and Mughal Culture in Bengal pp. 282-284

Sumit Guha

Book Review: Other Landscapes: Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India pp. 284-286

William J. Glover

Book Review: Workers of the World: Essays towards a Global Labour History pp. 286-290

Tirthankar Roy

Book Review: The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery ‘Lunatic’ pp. 290-293

Avril Powell

Volume 49, issue 1, 2012

Visualising a region: Phaniswarnath Renu and the archive of the ‘regional–rural’ in the 1950s pp. 1-35

Sadan Jha

Oral tradition, nationalism and Assamese social history: Remembering a peasant uprising pp. 37-72

Arupjyoti Saikia

Rice trade in the ‘rice bowl of Bengal’: Burdwan 1880–1947 pp. 73-104

Achintya Kumar Dutta

Struggling against Dundee: Bengal jute industry during the nineteenth century pp. 105-146

Indrajit Ray

Book Review: The Small Voice of History pp. 147-148

Gyan Prakash

Book Review: Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times pp. 149-150

Kumkum Chatterjee

Volume 48, issue 4, 2011

‘To stop train pull chain’ pp. 469-495

Lisa Mitchell

‘…Of real use to the people’ pp. 497-529

Savithri Preetha Nair

Beyond powerlessness pp. 531-570

Pritipuspa Mishra

In the mirror of Ghalib pp. 571-592

A. Sean Pue

Book Review: Dravidian Sahibs and Brahmin Maulanas: The Politics of the Muslims of Tamil Nadu, 1930–1967 pp. 593-603

A.R. Venkatachalapathy

Book Review: In so Many Words: Women’s Life Experiences from Western and Eastern India and Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women pp. 595-598

Durba Ghosh

Book Review: Poetry and History: Bengali Mangalkabya and Social Change in Precolonial Bengal and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: An Intellectual Biography pp. 598-601

Kumkum Chatterjee

Book Review: Vijayanagara Visions: Religious Experience and Cultural Creativity in a South Indian Empire pp. 601-603

Lakshmi Subramanian

Index to Volume XLVIII pp. 605-607

N/a

Volume 48, issue 3, 2011

Of poisoners, tanners and the British Raj pp. 317-338

Saurabh Mishra

Civilisation and its malcontents pp. 339-376

Jangkhomang Guite

A nation state insufficiently imagined? pp. 377-405

Venkat Dhulipala

An urban imaginaire, ca 1350 pp. 407-424

Nilanjan Sarkar

From source to sink pp. 425-462

Awadhendra Sharan

Avril A. Powell, Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press), 2010, pp. 336 pp. 463-465

Michael H. Fisher

Antony Copley, Gay Writers in Search of the Divine: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writings of Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood (New Delhi: Yoda Press), 2006, pp. 316 pp. 465-467

Robert Cowan

Volume 48, issue 2, 2011

Markets in eighteenth century Bengal economy pp. 143-176

Tilottama Mukherjee

Revenue, rent…profit? Early British imperialism1, political economy and the search for a differentia specifica (inter se) pp. 177-213

Rahul Govind

An improbable reconstruction pp. 215-239

Anne Viguier

Casting despots in Dutch drama pp. 241-286

Manjusha Kuruppath

Gail Minault, Gender, Language and Learning: Essays in Indo-Muslim Cultural History (Delhi: Permanent Black), 2009, pp. 314 pp. 287-289

Asiya Alam

Margrit Pernau and Yunus Jaffery, eds, Information and the Public Sphere: Persian Newsletters from Mughal Delhi (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2009, pp. 480 pp. 289-291

C.M. Naim

R.S. Sharma, Rethinking India’s Past (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2009, pp. 299 pp. 291-294

Himanshu Prabha Ray

Sanjam Ahluwalia, Reproductive Restraints: Birth Control in India, 1877–1947 (New Delhi: Permanent Black), 2008, pp. 251 pp. 294-298

J. Devika

Marcus Franke, War and Nationalism in South Asia: The Indian State and the Nagas (London: Routledge), 2009, pp. 219 pp. 298-301

Kaushik Roy

Finbarr B. Flood, Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval ‘Hindu–Muslim’ Encounter (New Delhi: Permanent Black), 2010, pp. 384 pp. 301-305

Manan Ahmed

Srinath Raghavan, War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of Nehru Years (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2010, pp. 359 pp. 305-307

Priya Chacko

Manu Bhagavan and Anne Feldhaus, eds, Speaking Truth to Power: Religion, Caste, and the Subaltern Question in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2008, pp. 242 pp. 307-310

Sasheej Hegde

Francesca Orsini, Print and Pleasure: Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North India (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2009, pp. 310 pp. 310-312

Ulrike Stark

Aparna Basu and Shailja Kalelkar Parikh (Trans.), The Road Less Travelled: The Life and Writings of Vinodinee Neelkanth (Kolkata: Stree), 2009, pp. 320 pp. 312-315

V. Geetha

Volume 48, issue 1, 2011

Associational culture and civic engagement in colonial Lucknow pp. 1-33

Ulrike Stark

Individualism within conformity pp. 35-53

C.M. Naim

The historical anatomy of a contact zone pp. 55-82

Kapil Raj

Selling steel in the 1920s pp. 83-116

Chikayoshi Nomura

Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Explaining Indian Democracy A Fifty-Year Perspective, 1956–2000: The Realm of Ideas—Inquiry and Theory (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2008, pp. 324 pp. 117-120

Ajay Gudavarthy

Leon Grunberg and Sunil Kukreja, Discourses on the Beautiful Game, (New Delhi: Ashwin-Anoka Press), 2007, pp. 192 pp. 121-122

Boria Majumdar

Louis E. Fenech, The Darbar of the Sikh Gurus: The Court of God in the World of Men (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2008, pp. 325 pp. 123-126

Farina Mir

Prashant Kidambi, The Making of an Indian Metropolis. Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890–1920 (Hampshire: Ashgate), 2007, pp. 268 pp. 126-133

Martin Fuchs

S.D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, eds., India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza (‘India Book’) (Leiden: Brill), 2008, pp. 918 pp. 134-136

Michael Pearson

Marine Carrin and Harald Tambs-Lyche, An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867–1900 (New Delhi: Manohar Publications), 2008, pp. 386 pp. 136-138

Saurabh Dube

Shaheen Akhtar and Moushmi Bhowmick, Women in Concert: An Anthology of Bengali Muslim Women’s Writings (Kolkata: Stree), 2008, pp. 395 pp. 139-142

V. Geetha