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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

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