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Book review: Suvobrata Sarkar, Let there be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945 书评:苏沃布拉塔·萨卡尔，《要有光:1880-1945年孟加拉殖民地的工程、创业和电力》

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211069168

Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury

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Book review: Nayanjot Lahiri, Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M. N. Deshpande 书评:纳扬约特·拉希里，《考古学与公共目的:m.n.德什潘德的著作》

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211069161

Y. S. Alone

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Book review: R. Mahalakshmi, ed., Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India 书评:R. Mahalakshmi编，《艺术与历史:古代和中世纪早期印度的文本、语境和视觉表现》

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211069163

S. Majumdar

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The Dilemma of ‘Science’: ‘Tradition’ and Archaeology in Early Twentieth-century Bengal “科学”的困境:20世纪早期孟加拉的“传统”与考古学

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211001764

Sheena Panja

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State Failure and Successful Leadership in Medieval India 中世纪印度的国家失败与成功领导

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211001961

Vasileios Syros

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Book review: Eunan O’Halpin, Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death 书评:尤南·奥哈尔平，《凯文·巴里:一个生死中的爱尔兰反叛者》

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211009046

Jyoti Atwal

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Book review: Santanu Das, India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs 书评:桑塔努·达斯，印度，帝国和第一次世界大战文化:文字，图像和歌曲

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211009045

B. Bhattacharya

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The Poetics of Detachment in Medieval Ka-vya : Anthologies and the Path of Literary Sanskrit in the Second Millennium 中世纪Ka-vya的超然诗学:文集与第二个千年的梵文文学之路

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/0257643021998965

J. Knutson

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Book review: Jyoti Mohan, Claiming India: French Scholars and the Preoccupation with India in the Nineteenth Century 书评:乔蒂·莫汉，《宣称印度:19世纪法国学者和对印度的关注》

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211007627

Danna Agmon

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Book review: Whitney Cox, Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain 书评:惠特尼·考克斯，《中世纪南印度的政治、王权和诗歌:日出山上的月落》

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Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/02576430211007626

R. Dutta

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