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(Re) reading Chivu Stone Inscriptions: Colonial Archives, National Histories and Commemorations in North-eastern India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Deepak Naorem, Mutum Kenedy Singh
There are a large number of contested spaces, objects, monuments, historical figures, events and memories in North-eastern states of India. Their commemorations often incite historical controversie...
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A Geographical Study of Temple Desecration: The Reign of Emperor Aurangzeb in India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Anjan Sen, Aditya Narayan Rai
The history of Aurangzeb’s reign for 50 years from 1658 to 1707 CE is an indelible part of the history of India. The Mughal Empire grew in the east and south of India, so did the religious persecut...
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Book review: S. K. Chahal, Hindu Social Reform: The Framework of Jotirao Phule Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Renu Pandey
S. K. Chahal, Hindu Social Reform: The Framework of Jotirao Phule. Shimla: IIAS, 2022, x + 475 pp., ₹1,155, ISBN: 9789382396789 (Hardback).
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Book review: Suhit K. Sen, The Paradox of Populism: The Indira Gandhi Years, 1966–1977 Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Purabi Roy
Suhit K. Sen, The Paradox of Populism: The Indira Gandhi Years, 1966–1977. Delhi: Primus Books, 2019, viii + 294 pp., ₹995, ISBN: 9789352909421.
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Book review: Bes, Lennart, The Heirs of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Umesh Ashok Kadam
Bes, Lennart, The Heirs of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2022, xxv + 567 pp., $84.00, ISBN 9789087283711 (Paperback).
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Book review: Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya, ‘Paper Lioness’: Margaret Noble Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Smritikumar Sarkar
Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya, ‘Paper Lioness’: Margaret Noble. Kolkata: Jayasree Press, 2018, x+248 pp., ₹700, ISBN: 9789384108168.
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INA’s Model of Communal Harmony: A Way Forward Among Communal Tensions in India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Gh Hassan Wani
India, despite being a small world with different cultures, religions, races and languages, has been living on the ideal of unity in diversity. This unity in diversity works on the twin principles;...
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Market Formation in Assam: Nature of Trade in and around the Brahmaputra Valley, C. 1826–1905 Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Nabanita Sharma
The British East India Company (EIC) and other European traders entered Assam for trade. The region thrived on traditional places of exchange. These were haats (markets at the village and district ...
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Woman Suffrage in Bengal (1921–1925): The ‘Great Game’ Between the Imperialists and the Theosophists Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Nivedita Das
In 1921, the Bengal Legislative Council defeated the Woman Suffrage Bill. It created quite a stir because Bengal showed strong opposition to the Bill, in spite of its reputation for being receptive...
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Medieval Deccan: Reflections Through the Lives of Madame Martin and Madame Dupleix Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Umesh Ashok Kadam, Shelley Christine Lamare
This article brings to the forefront an underexamined aspect of French Indian history. Scholars have researched on various aspects of French imperialism in India, but one aspect which remains outsi...
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The Tribals and the National Uprising of 1857 in Rajputana States Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-07 V. K. Vashishtha
The scholars have paid scant attention to the role of the Bhil and the Mina tribes of southern Rajputana States of Mewar, Banswara and Partapgarh in the 1857 national war of independence. These tri...
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Resistance Against the Company Raj: With Special Reference to Bihar and Jharkhand (1757–1856) Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Ashok Aounshuman
The British conquest of India was not akin to venividi vici dictum. Rather, it was a slow and gruelling expansion marked by resistance to it from cross-sections of individuals and social groups in ...
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Indian National Army: Netaji’s Secret Service Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Purabi Roy
Netaji’s Secret Service ‘Indian National Army’ essentially revolutionary organisation. It is well known the leftist played a crucial role in Subhas Bose getting elected as the President of the Trip...
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Revisiting the Early Anti-colonial Rebellions in Bengal and Odisha, 1760–1856 Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Smritikumar Sarkar
This is an outline of the early rebellions against the East India Company that broke out in the region, comprised of the present-day Bangladesh, and Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha. Organis...
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Struggle Against the Empire: Other Organisations and Cultural Nationalism Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Ratan Sharda
Dr B. R. Ambedkar noted that any freedom struggle or political change needs a base of cultural renaissance, reforms—both social and religious. Our retaliation against colonialists began from the ve...
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The Novelist and the Nationalist: Bankim Chandra in the Life of Subhas Chandra Bose Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Sumit Mukerji
This article seeks to explore a hitherto unploughed field of research on Indian freedom movement in general and Subhas Chandra Bose in particular that is the influence of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhy...
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1857 Uprising: ‘The Outburst’ in Haryana Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-07 K. C. Yadav
A study of the events at both Ambala and Meerut indicates that the sepoys’ plan was to rise in revolt while the Europeans were attending the Sunday church services. They wanted to catch them, unawa...
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Mahatma and Mahamana: Agreement within Differences Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Bhuwan Kumar Jha
Mahatma Gandhi and Mahamana Malaviya were the two giants of the Indian public life, leading the national movement in their own ways, largely together, and at times through different paths. By the t...
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Book review: Zakir Husain, Medieval India: Studies in Polity, Economy and Society (Fourteenth–Nineteenth Centuries) Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Gyaneshwar Khurana
Zakir Husain, Medieval India: Studies in Polity, Economy and Society (Fourteenth–Nineteenth Centuries). Delhi: Primus Books, Delhi, 2019, 556 pp., ₹1,595, ISBN: 9789352907267 (Hardback).
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Book review: Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu Consciousness and Nationalism in Colonial Punjab Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Himadri Banerjee
K. L. Tuteja, Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu Consciousness and Nationalism in Colonial Punjab. Delhi: Indian Institute of Advanced Study and Primus Books, 2021, 386 pp., ₹1,250, ISBN: 978939...
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Book review: Harsh Mahaan Cairae, An Aryan Journey Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Vasant Shinde
Harsh Mahaan Cairae, An Aryan Journey, New Delhi: Rupa Publication, 2019 (Second Impression), ₹495, ISBN: 9788129132581.
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Book review: Alan Jaffreys, The Indian Army in the First World War Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-29 U. P. Thapliyal
Alan Jaffreys, The Indian Army in the First World War, Delhi: Primus Books, 2019, 313 pp., ₹1,295, ISBN: 9789352906208.
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Book review: Jangkhomang Guite, Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Amrendra Kumar Thakur
Jangkhomang Guite, Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, 364 pp., ₹1,095, ISBN: 9780199489411.
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Two Distant Feminist Standpoints in Nineteenth-Century India: Case Studies of Savitribai Phule and Pandita Ramabai Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Renu Pandey
Modern feminist theory endeavours to explain gender inequality in terms of gender politics, power hierarchies and sexuality. In this endeavour, it has come to the crossroads with a variety of theor...
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Making of a Primitive Bandit Criminal: Trial of Jadonang in the British Colonial Court Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Khwairakpam Premjit Singh
In the game of the ‘have and have nots’ of the texts, the illiterate communities remain the victims. Who produced whose text and ‘interest’ are similarly important in order to understand the reliab...
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Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj and Indian National Movement Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Harish C. Sharma
Hind Swaraj was published in Gujarati language in the journal Indian Opinion under the title Hind Swarajaya in 1909, and its English version as Indian Home Rule by Mahatma Gandhi was published in P...
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The Dutch in Bengal, C. 1650–1707 and Their Relations with Local Mughal Administration Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Nadara Ashafaque
This article studies Dutch East India Company’s interest in Bengal and their relations with local Mughal officials during the seventeenth century. The Dutch faced constant problems with the local o...
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Khairul Majalis: Highlighting the Virtues of Shaikh Nasiruddin Chiragh-i-Dehli Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Pratibha
In this article, an attempt has been made to make a nuanced study of the images portrayed of the shaikh by Hamid Qalandar and his protagonist, Shaikh Nasiruddin, in the malfuzat of the shaikh entitled Khairul Majalis. It highlights that the shaikh willingly chose the path of faqr (poverty), faqa (deprivation/hunger) and wanted to renounce duniya wa khalq (world and people), which resulted in an antipathy
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The Lady and the Gentleman: Changing Gender Relations and Anxieties in Early Malayalam Cartoons Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Nassif Muhammed Ali
Kerala, towards the end of the nineteenth century, witnessed an awakening which left impressions on all the walks of the society. The advent of modernity, which was triggered by the British rule as well the state’s attempt to widen education and welfare measures, initiated reform movements among almost all the communities. The accessibility to modern education and resultant exposure to scientific,
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Grain Trade, Climate Change and Famines: A Study of Awadh from c. 1858–1900 Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Nalini Singh
This study is based on an interesting debate between the British authorities and the Indian nationalists over the issues of frequent famines during the colonial period in India. The British officials largely emphasised the role of deficient rainfall behind the occurrence of famines. But the Indian nationalists saw these famines as an impact of the colonial policies like unequal redistribution of the
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The State, Village Communities and the Brahmanas in Goa (1000–1600 ce) Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Nagendra Rao
The village communities of Goa, like their counterparts in Karnataka, performed an important function. They provided the spiritual and material bases for the process of state formation. The kings selected the Brahmanas as the spiritual and secular beneficiaries and gave land grants to them. On the one hand, they went a long a way in legitimising the position of the king and creating a material basis
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Shrinking Greens: Travellers’ Account of the Heritage Gardens of Ahmedabad—1400–2016 Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Mahesh Sharma
The sultans of Gujarat tried to transform the landscape by planting native and exotic trees and introducing gardens on the perceived Central-Asian Khorasan style to underpin their control over the acquired or conquered territory and its nature-landscape. After the founding of Ahmedabad, gardens within the religious and secular architecture came up all over the city. The foliage and gardens were hugely
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Urbanisation at Sannati (c. 300 bc–c. 300 ad): An Early Historic Buddhist Settlement in North Karnataka, India. A Comparative Perspective Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Hema Thakur
Urbanisation has been studied almost from the middle of twentieth century by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and city planners who have interpreted it variously. An urban centre would engage with specific functions particularly with regard to the hinterland. In urbanisation comparatively small settlements and simple communities develop into specialised centres and complex
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Book review: Pandit Sunder Lal, British Rule in India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29 K. L. Tuteja
Pandit Sunder Lal, British Rule in India, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2018, ix + 536 pp., ₹395, ISBN: 9789352808021.
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Book review: Arundhati C. Khandkar and Ashok C. Khandkar, Swimming Upstream: Laxmanshastri Joshi and the Evolution of Modern India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Santosh Kumar Rai
Arundhati C. Khandkar and Ashok C. Khandkar, Swimming Upstream: Laxmanshastri Joshi and the Evolution of Modern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, xxiv + 193 pp., ₹1,195, ISBN: 9780199495153 (Hardback).
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Book review: Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay, The Archaeology of Coastal Bengal Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Bhairabi Prasad Sahu
Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay, The Archaeology of Coastal Bengal, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018, xix + 338 pp., ₹1250, ISBN: 9780199481687 (Hardback).
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Book review: Pankaj Jha, Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Dhrub Kumar Singh
Pankaj Jha, Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, 304 pp., ₹1,095, ISBN: 9780199489558.
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Book review: Sabita Singh, The Politics of Marriage in Medieval India: Gender and Alliance in Rajasthan Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Manorama Upadhyaya
Sabita Singh, The Politics of Marriage in Medieval India: Gender and Alliance in Rajasthan, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, xiii + 292 pp., ₹1,195, ISBN: 9780199491453.
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Book review: Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Marcus Banks (eds.), Visual Histories of South Asia Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Marcus Banks (eds.), Visual Histories of South Asia (Forward by Christopher Pinney), Delhi: Primus Books, 2018, xxviii + 314 pp., ₹1,495, ISBN: 9789386552440 (Hardback).
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The Patterns of Bone Technology in Ancient Kashi (1300 bc to 300 ad) Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-07 Anuradha Singh
The political, socio-economic and cultural development of Kashi was never blocked. The history of technological development in Kashi state has been very flourished. The present study is an attempt to present historical and analytical studies regarding bone technology and its characteristics used in the region of ancient Kashi. The contribution of bone technology in the wisdom of Kashi and the development
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Patriarchy and Virginity Myth in the Mahābhārata Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Ravi Khangai
Scriptures are often used to make patriarchal control sacrosanct over women’s bodies. A stereotypical monogamous woman is generally idealised by patriarchy; Polyandrous Draupadī in the Mahābhārata, however, stands sharply in contrast and the epic struggles to legitimise it by different myths to soothe the moral discomfort. Principal women characters of the epic like Draupadī, Kuntī and Satyavatī having
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Colonial Roots of the Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory and the Contemporary Archaeological Evidence in Western Sources Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Kundan Singh
William Jones, famously, by identifying close linkages between Sanskrit and European languages, gave birth to research into the common ancestry between Indians and Europeans. In the earlier years of contention on the matter, India was considered the cradle of civilisation and Sanskrit as the mother of all Indo-European languages. With the rise in the imperial power of Europe over India, the cradle
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The Waqf Estates of Pānḍūa: Historical Analysis (from Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries) Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Salim Zaweed
In its first section, the article examines the creation of two major Sufi institutions, the khanqāhs of Shaikh Jalāluddīn Tabrīzī (d. 1225) known as Badi dargāh and Shaikh Nūr Quṭb Ālam (d. 1410) as Chhotī dargāh. Further, for the smooth functioning and maintenance, the rulers of Ilyas Shahi dynasty and other independent rulers of Bengal endowed rent-free lands to the respective khanqāhs presently
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Buderas—A Pastoralist Community of High Himalayan Society: Migration, Identity, Existence and Belief Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-10-17 Dinesh Prasad Saklani
Buderas are inhabitants of Gangi, Pinswar and Ginwali, three villages in Tehri district of Uttarakhand. They are basically grazers, who, at a certain point of time in history, migrated from Kashmir via Himachal Pradesh. The migration and settlement of Buderas is very interesting, being interwoven with the tale of their deity. They, in general, follow Hinduism, only in certain aspects but are specifically
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Social Clubs in a Princely State: The Case from Hyderabad, Deccan Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-10-17 Benjamin B. Cohen
Social clubs began in India in the late eighteenth century in the wake of British colonial expansion. Clubs flourished in colonial India’s two great administrative divisions: those areas under direct control and the indirectly controlled princely states of India. This article explores the role of clubs in Hyderabad city, the capital city of India’s largest and wealthiest princely state. Here, club
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Indian Women in World War II: The Air Raid Precaution ‘Comfort’ Women Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-10-17 Kashyap Deepak
The main focus of this article is on the war-stricken ecology of World War II and the notable role played by Indian women as Air Raid Precaution Wardens. They gave their unmatched services in the air raid–prone areas and earned a name. However, until the close of the war, they were reduced to not more than ‘comfort women’ for British officers and soldiers. Simultaneously, the article explains how the
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Religious Interaction in Early Medieval Kamarupa: An Insight into the Kalikapurana Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-10-10 Rashmi Rekha Bhuyan
Like all other world religions, Brahmanism and Buddhism, the two prominent religious traditions of India, have histories of development and transformations since their inception. Depending on the socio-economic and political scenario, religions are subject to change, often in their basic beliefs and rituals, and at a certain point of time, the interaction between diverse religious traditions also becomes
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A Modern Non-Western Thinker as a Subject of Intercultural Dialogue (Based on M. K. Gandhi’s Example) Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Elena A. Bitinayte
An intercultural dialogue is the essential question in modernising societies. Non-Western thinkers (i.e., thinkers influenced by both traditional non-Western and modern Western cultures) are the active subjects of such intercommunications. Their existence on the joint of two civilisations forms their social, cultural and mental image. The intellectuals of this type are attached to both societies and
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Administration System Under the Nizams of Hyderabad, India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Mohammad Reza Niyati
This is an attempt at presenting a brief account of the administrative history of the dominions of Hyderabad, the time the Asaf Jahi Dynasty was established here to the 1948. Following the Mughal conquest of the Golconda Kingdom in 1687, territorial adjustment and changes were effected and the Kingdom was in corporate as one of the six Mughal provinces of the Deccan as Subah Farkhundabunyad (Hyderabad)
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Book review: Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin (eds.), The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Raghuvendra Tanwar
Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin (eds.), The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2018, 241 pp., ₹850, ISBN: 9789352806508.
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Book review: Milinda Banerjee, The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Monmayee Basu
Milinda Banerjee, The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 435 pp., $120, ISBN: 9781107166561 (Hardback).
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Book review: Abhijit Basu, Perpetual India: Tale of a Timeless People Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Nanditha Krishna
Abhijit Basu, Perpetual India: Tale of a Timeless People. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2020, 187 pp., ₹450, ISBN: 9788121513326.
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Book review: B. D. Chattopadhyaya, The Concept of ‘Bharatavarsha’ and Other Essays Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Amrendra Kumar Thakur
B. D. Chattopadhyaya, The Concept of ‘Bharatavarsha’ and Other Essays. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018 (first published for South Asia by Permanent Black, Delhi, 2018), x + 240 pp., ₹900, ISBN: 9781438471754.
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Book review: Jaswandi Wamburkar (ed.), Indian Modernity: Challenges and Responses Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Gaurav Gadgil
Jaswandi Wamburkar (ed.), Indian Modernity: Challenges and Responses. Pune: The Unique Foundation, 2020, 350 pp., ₹350, ISBN: 9788194532811.
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Land Revenue Settlements: The Magnitudes of Economic Development in the State of Bahawalpur (1866–1947) Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Zahra Akram Hashmi
With the advent of the British in India, the colonial institutions were introduced throughout the country. In the Bahawalpur State, the Agency government stimulated the fiscal patterns of British India particularly its settlement policy, which brought amelioration in the native revenue system. This paper traces the historical process of land settlement for revenue generation and their impact over the
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Assessing Cultural Experiences in Historic Urban Centres: Built Forms and Qualities Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Godwin Emmanuel Jeyaraj, Meenatchi Sundaram
Human settlements evolved over time and the historic towns of yesterday are the growing urban centres of today. The built environment in historic areas is undergoing such rapid transformation that visitors are no longer able to experience cultural values of the past. Identifying the cultural values that people experience in terms of the qualities of what, where and how may support a more realistic
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Examining the Usage of Stylus or Lekhan̄ı in a Historical Space: Evidence of Its Finds from the Literary and Archaeological Sources of India Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Panchanan Bhoi
The study analyses the findings of writing instrument and its nomenclature through literary and archaeological sources. Certainly, writing instruments and materials were linked to the appearance of letters and scripts, but we should remind ourselves that the Harappan people did have their own script and left their inscriptions, which we have yet to decipher. Even prior to the Harappan civilisation
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Lingayats and the Yearning for the ‘Language of the Gods’ in the 1910s–1940s Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Divya Komala
Lingayats hold a distinct position in the history of Karnataka beginning with the cultural legacy from the twelfth century and continuing into the twentieth century for the prominent role in the non-Brahmin movement by deploying education as a means to achieve social mobility and to attain solidarity among the various sections of the diverse community. The possible loss of social status in the caste
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Disciplining a ‘Pathological Province’? Orissa, Smallpox and Colonial Order Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Chandi Prasad Nanda
A massive corpus of historical scholarship has been produced in the last few decades exploring specificities underlying the triad of disease, health and medicine. The present work explores the linkages between medical knowledge and colonial power drawing resources from the medical archive. The focus of this essay pertains to the study of disease and medicine in relation to their extent of influence
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The Indian Invasion of Alexander and the Emergence of Hybrid Cultures Indian Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Chandima S. M. Wickramasinghe
Alexander the Great usurped the Achaemenid Empire in 331 bc, captured Swat and Punjab in 327 bc, and subdued the region to the west of the Indus and fought with Porus at the Hydaspes in 326 bc. But he was forced to return home when the army refused to proceed. Some of his soldiers remained in India and its periphery while some joined Alexander in his homeward journey. When Alexander died in 323 bc