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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

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

N/a

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