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Volume 47, issue 4, 2010

Introduction pp. 441-443

Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook

Scribal elites in Sultanate and Mughal Bengal pp. 445-472

Kumkum Chatterjee

Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India pp. 473-496

C.J. Fuller and Haripriya Narasimhan

Serving the barbarian to preserve the dharma pp. 497-525

Sumit Guha

Master and Munshī pp. 527-561

Rajeev Kinra

The social worth of scribes pp. 563-595

Rosalind O’Hanlon

The Maratha Brahmin model in south India pp. 597-615

David Washbrook

Index to Volume XLVII pp. 617-619

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Volume 47, issue 3, 2010

Who wants to be a cosmopolitan? pp. 291-308

Kathryn Hansen

Feminine, criminal or manly? pp. 309-342

Charu Gupta

The male state pp. 343-376

Jonathan Saha

On the discursive and material context of the first handwritten Lushai newspaper ‘Mizo Chanchin Laishuih’, 1898 pp. 377-403

P. Thirumal and C. Lalrozami

K.N. Panikkar, Colonialism, Culture and Resistance (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2007, pp. 279 and Subrata Dasgupta, The Bengal Renaissance: Identity and Creativity from Rammohan Roy to Rabindranath Tagore (New Delhi: Permanent Black), 2007, pp. 280 pp. 405-409

Alok Sheell

Madhurima Sen, Prisons in Colonial Bengal, 1838–1919 (Kolkata: Thema), 2007, pp.186 pp. 409-412

Anindita Mukhopadhyay

Ramya Sreenivasan, The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500–1900 (New Delhi: Permanent Black), 2007, pp. 276 pp. 412-414

Anupama Rao

Vasanthi Srinivasan, Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper: C. Rajagopalachari and Indian Politics (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2009, pp. 278 pp. 414-416

Antony Copley

Vijaya Ramaswamy, Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (USA: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.), 2007, pp. 375 and Rani Siva Sankara Sarma, The Last Brahmin: Life and Reflections of a Modernday Sanskrit Pandit (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2007, pp. 197 pp. 416-418

A.R. Venkatachalapathy

Satish Saberwal, Spirals of Contention: Why India was Partitioned in 1947 (New Delhi: Routledge), 2008, pp. 342 and Joya Chatterji, The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947–1967 (New York: Cambridge University Press), 2007, pp. 203 pp. 418-422

Bidyut Chakrabarty

Yogesh Sharma and Jose Leal Ferreira, eds, Portuguese Presence in India during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New Delhi: Viva Books), 2008, pp. 183 and Claude Markovits, Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era (New Delhi: Permanent Black), 2008, pp. 292 pp. 422-425

Lakshmi Subramanian

Priti Kumar Mitra, The Dissent of Kazi Nazrul Islam: Poetry and History (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2007, pp. 330 pp. 425-427

Mehr Afshan Farooqi

David Cook, Martyrdom in Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2007, p. 206 pp. 427-429

Nilanjan Sarkar

Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Rhythms of Life: Enacting the World with the Goddesses of Orissa (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2008, pp. 292 and Ishita Bannerjee-Dube, Religion, Law and Power: Tales of Time in Eastern India, 1800–2000 (London: Anthem Press), 2008, pp. 225 pp. 429-432

Pritipuspa Mishra

Beatrice Forbes Manz, Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran (USA: Cambridge University Press), 2007, pp. 313 pp. 433-436

Reuven Amitai

Patricia Uberoi, Nandini Sundar and Satish Deshpande, Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology (New Delhi: Permanent Black), 2007, pp. 552 pp. 436-440

Roland Lardinois

Volume 47, issue 2, 2010

Cryptographic imagination pp. 141-177

Ashish Chadha

Land revenues, schools and literacy pp. 179-204

Latika Chaudhary

Who is a Muslim? Identities of exclusion—north Indian Muslims, c. 1860–1900 pp. 205-229

S.A. Zaidi

Maulana Bhashani and the transition to secular politics in East Bengal pp. 231-259

Peter Custers

Saila Kumar Ghosh, Colonial Modernization and Gandhi (Calcutta: Papyrus), 2008, pp. 296 pp. 261-263

A. Raghuramaraju

Dalia Chakrabarti, Colonial Clerks: A Social History of Deprivation and Domination (Kolkata: K.P. Bagchi & Company), 2005, pp. 158 pp. 264-266

Anindita Mukhopadhyay

Om Prakash, The Dutch Factories in India A Collection of Dutch East India Company Documents Pertaining to India, Volume II (1624–27) (New Delhi: Manohar), 2007, pp. 413 pp. 266-268

Anjana Singh

Nira Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka in the Modern Age A History of Contested Identities (London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd), 2006, pp. 360 pp. 269-272

Arjun Guneratne

Shabnum Tejani, Indian Secularism An Intellectual and Social History 1890–1950 (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2007, pp. 302 pp. 272-275

Benjamin Zachariah

Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai, Imperial Conversations Indo–Britons and the Architecture of South India (New Delhi: Yoda Press), 2007, pp. 326 pp. 275-278

Catherine B. Asher

Purnendu Ranjan, History of Kabirpanth A Regional Process (New Delhi: Anamika Publishers), 2008, pp. 285 pp. 279-281

David Lorenzen

Kaushik Roy, Brown Warriors of the Raj Recruitment and the Mechanics of Command in the Second Army, 1859–1913 (New Delhi: Manohar), 2008, pp. 350 pp. 281-284

Douglas M. Peers

T.N. Srinivasan, ed., The Future of Secularism (New Delhi Oxford University Press), 2007, pp. 327 pp. 284-287

Humeira Iqtidar

Papiya Ghosh, Community and Nation: Essays on Identity and Politics in Eastern India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2008, pp. 218 pp. 287-289

Ishita Banerjee

Volume 47, issue 1, 2010

Scribe and script in the CÄ lukya West Deccan pp. 1-28

Whitney M. Cox

Politics, violence and war in KÄ mandaka’s NÄ«tisÄ ra pp. 29-62

Upinder Singh

Cowries and coins pp. 63-106

John S. Deyell

‘All gifting is sacred’ pp. 107-139

Malavika Kasturi

Volume 46, issue 4, 2009

Frank disputations pp. 457-511

Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Fixed boundaries, fluid landscapes pp. 513-540

Gunnel Cederlöf

Telling her tale? Unravelling a life in conflict in Peero’s Ik Sau Saá¹­h KÄ fiaá¹…. (one hundred and sixty kafis) pp. 541-578

Anshu Malhotra

Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry pp. 579-613

Tirthankar Roy

Index to Volume XLVI pp. 615-616

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Volume 46, issue 3, 2009

Introduction pp. 293-300

Aya Ikegame and Andrea Major

Re-visioning princely states in South Asian historiography pp. 301-313

Chitralekha Zutshi

Enslaving spaces pp. 315-342

Andrea Major

Space of kinship, space of empire pp. 343-372

Aya Ikegame

The Malabar Hill murder trial of 1925 pp. 373-400

Angma D. Jhala

To ‘tear the mask off the face of the past’ pp. 401-426

Mridu Rai

Princely states and the making of modern India pp. 427-456

Manu Bhagavan

Volume 46, issue 2, 2009

Cultural flows and cosmopolitanism in Mughal India pp. 147-182

Kumkum Chatterjee

Cosmopolitanism in the Hinterland? Bellary District through Fresh Lenses, 1800–1840 pp. 183-210

Chandra Mallampalli

The military influence on engineering education in Britain and India, 1848–1906 pp. 211-239

John Black

New province, old capital pp. 241-279

Sraman Mukherjee

Book Reviews pp. 281-291

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Volume 46, issue 1, 2009

Introduction pp. 1-4

Eleanor Newbigin, Leigh Denault and Rohit De

From begums and bibis to abandoned females and idle women pp. 5-25

Erica Wald

Partition and the politics of the joint family in nineteenth-century north India pp. 27-55

Leigh Denault

The semi-autonomous judge in colonial India pp. 57-81

Mitra Sharafi

The codification of personal law and secular citizenship pp. 83-104

Eleanor Newbigin

Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart pp. 105-130

Rohit De

Book Reviews pp. 131-146

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