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Vol. 44 ,
Number 1, June 2017
INDIAN COUNCIL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
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Indian
Historical
Volume 44 Number I June 2017 Review
Contents
Articles
Origin of Hindu Religion and Sanskrit In Central Asia:
A Recent Claim and Its Rebuttal
Varun Singh
The Date of Kanishka since I960 21
Robert Bracey
The Dutch East India Company through the Local Lens: Exploring the
Dynamics of Indo-Dutch Relations in Seventeenth Century Bengal 62
Byapti Sur
On Slippery Ground: The British Position in Punjab in 1857 92
Bir Good Gill
Beyond the Apparent: The Male Doctors and the
Medicalisation of Childbirth in Bengal, 1840s-1940s 106
Ambaiika Guha
Review Article
Some Aspects of the Bengal Partition* 124
by Chhanda Chatterjee •
Book Reviews
P.K. Basant, The City and the Country in Early India: A Study of Malwa
by Aloka Parasher-Sen
* Tathagata Roy, N\y People Uprooted: The Exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh
Patrick Olivelle (trans.). King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India:
Kautilya's Arthasastra—A New Annotated Translation 134
by Soumen Mukherjee
K. Rajan, Early Writing System:
A Journey from Graffiti to Srahmi 136
by Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Joan Mickelson Gaughan, The Incumberances:
British Women in India, 1615-1856 139
by Anindita Mukhopadhyay
Surendra Gopal, Born to Trade, Indian Business Communities
in Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia 141
by Dilip K. Chakrabarti
S.Z.H. Jafri (Ed.), History, Ideas and Society:
S. C. Mishra Memorial Lectures in History 143
by Syed Tanveer Nasreen
Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay (eds),
Southern India in the Late Nineteenth Century 146
by Tirthankar Roy
Charu Gupta (Ed.), Gendering Colonial India:
Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism 148
by Maroona Murmu
Meenakshi Jain (ed.), Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries,
and the Changing Colonial Discourse 151
by Swadesh Singh
Jyoti Atwal (Ed.), Real and Imagined Widows: Gender Relations
in Colonial North India 154
by Rachana Chakraborty
Niels Brimnes, Languished Hopes: Tuberculosis, the State
and International Assistance in Twentieth-century India 156
by Raj Sekhar Basu
Anuradha Roy, Cultural Communism in Bengal 1936-1952 159
by Bipasha Raha
Nira Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History, Revised Edition 161
by Samacha Mallempati
Bhikhu Parekh, Debating India: Essays on Indian Political Discourse 164
by Saradindu Mukherji
Amrita Basu, Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India 166
by Ashutosh Kumar
Short Notices
Radhika Seshan, Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India:
Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries 169
by Ali Athar
Poonam Bala (ed.), Medicine and Colonialism:
Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa 170
by Chittabrata Palit
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Volume 44 Number 2 December 2017 Review
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From Lineage to Territory; The Making of Territorial
Self-consciousness in Kalihga 173
Monu V. Devadevan
The Dynamics of a Mughal Court Festival: A Case Study of Nauroz 198
Rajoshree Ghosh " •
Coinage and Economy of Premodern North-East India:
Focus on Ahom Kingdom 212
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Debajit Dutta
From Surveys to Management: The Early Colonial State's
Intervention in Water Resources of Bengal 225
Ujjayan Bhattacharya
The Indian Diaspora in Malaya: Links and Divides Between the Chettiar
Business Class and Working Class Indians During the British Colonial Era 252
Ummadevi Suppiah and Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja
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Textualing Women as 'Hindu': The Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Perspective on Hindu Women in Twentieth Century 270
Koushiki Dasgupta
Sino-lndian War of 1962 285 •T- • - •
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A Report on a Recendy Discovered Ruined Gupta
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Book Reviews
Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox and Lawrence McCrea (eds),
South Asian Texts in History: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock 327
by Manu V. Devadevan
Ishtlyaq Ahmad Zilli, Tarikh e FiruzShahi ofZia-ud-din Barani 329
by Mohammed Jameel
Pius Malekandathil, The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India 331
by Neelima Joshi
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph,
Romanticism's Child: An Intellectual History ofJames Tod's
Influence on Indian History and Historiography 333
by Geeta Arya
Pius Malekandathil, Joy L.K. Pachuau and Tanika Sarkar (eds),
Christianity in Indian History—Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge 335
by G. Patrick
Amites Mukhopadhyay, Living with Disasters: Communities
and Development in the Indian Sundarbans 338
by Tirthankar Ghosh
Mushirul Hasan, Roads to Freedom: Prisoners in Colonial India 340
by Amit Kumar Gupta
Conor Mulvagh, Irish Days, Indian Memories. V. V. Ciri and Indian
Law Students at University College Dublin, 1913-16 344
by Saradindu Mukherji
Shrabani Basu, For King and Another Country:
Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18 346
by Manas Dutta
Sarup Prasad Ghosh, The Relevance of the Ideas ofSwami Vivekananda on
International Relations: India's Foreign Relations as a Case Study 349
by V.C. Bhutani
Deepak Kumar, The Trishanku Nation: Memory,
Self, and Society in Contemporary India 354
by Shantanu Chakrabarti
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