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‘Horn Please’: The evolution and regulation of traffic in twentieth-century India “请按喇叭”:20世纪印度交通的演变和管制

2区历史学

Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/00194646231200331

Purbasha Das

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The limits of the ethnographic state in British India: The case of ‘foreign Asiatic vagrants’, c. 1860–1900 英属印度民族志国家的界限:以1860-1900年“外国亚洲移民”为例

2区历史学

Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/00194646231200358

Claude Markovits

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Salt, smuggling and citizenship: Redefining princely sovereignty through salt in Baroda, 1870–1920 盐、走私和公民身份:巴罗达通过盐重新定义君主主权，1870-1920

2区历史学

Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/00194646231200327

Kate Boehme

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Untouchability, caste, and the electorate: Revisiting legacies of the Poona Pact in Pakistan 贱民、种姓和选民:重新审视巴基斯坦普纳条约的遗产

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Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-22 DOI: 10.1177/00194646231201112

Sadia Mahmood

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Book review: Santosh Kumar Rai, Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces 书评:Santosh Kumar Rai，《编织等级:20世纪早期美国各省的手工织布机编织者》

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Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/00194646231186020

Tirthankar Roy

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Book review: Muzaffar Alam, The Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750 书评:穆扎法尔·阿拉姆:《莫卧儿王朝与苏菲派:1500-1750年印度的伊斯兰教与政治想象》

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Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/00194646231186017

Alexandre Papas

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Book review: Aditya Pratap Deo, Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State 书评:Aditya Pratap Deo，《印度中部的国王、精神和记忆:让国家着迷》

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Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/00194646231185997

Budhaditya Das

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Book review: Blain Auer, In the Mirror of Persian Kings: The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India 书评:Blain Auer，《在波斯国王的镜子里:印度人-伊斯兰法庭和帝国的起源》

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Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/00194646231186047

Corinne Lefèvre

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Messianism, rationalism and inter-Asian connections: The Majalis-i Jahangiri (1608–11) and the socio-intellectual history of the Mughal ‘ulama 弥赛亚主义、理性主义和亚洲间的联系:贾汉吉里家族(1608 - 1611)和莫卧儿乌拉玛的社会思想史

IF 0.7 2区历史学

Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2017-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/0019464617710744

Corinne Lefèvre

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Book Review: Toby E. Huff, Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective 书评:托比·e·赫夫，《求知欲与科学革命:全球视角》

IF 0.7 2区历史学

Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2012-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/0019464612463830

Anjana Singh

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