{"title":"Book Reviews : PRASANNAN PARTHASARATHI, The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Mer chants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society 7), Cambridge, CUP, 2001, pp. xii + 165","authors":"R. Ahuja","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000306","url":null,"abstract":"spatial mobility and strong bargaining position of artisans in south India and the ’labour policies’ of the pre-colonial and colonial regimes. Since most eighteenthcentury studies have so far focused, as Parthasarathi points out correctly, on intermediary and mercantile groups of Indian society, the exploration of each of these themes is crucial for a more comprehensive analysis of the ’transition to a colonial","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64785755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The nautee in 'the second city of the Empire'","authors":"Rimli Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000203","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I shall be bringing together several otherwise disparate histories of nineteenth- century Bengal: of migrant women turning to some form of prostitution; of traditions of women performers active in Calcutta from the eighteenth century; and finally , that of representation and female impersonation among the upper-class practitioners of private theatricals (1830s-60s). With the induction of women as actresses in 1873, there appears to be a point of no return in men playing the women's parts on the Bengali public stage. I suggest that this should not be read as a sudden break, but rather as a 'resolution' of contradictions, dilemmas and anxieties evident in the histories outlined above. A useful but neglected perspective on this trajectory emerges from the relationship of gender to genre and musical forms: this article seeks to initiate such an inquiry.","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64785985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews : J.L. GOMMANS and D.H.A. KOLFF, eds, Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia: 1000-1800, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 395","authors":"Iqbal Ghani Khan","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000204","url":null,"abstract":"This is a volume that extends Prof. Kolff’s interest in the military labour market to wider horizons through a collection of several articles. The introduction by .Gommans and Kolff offers a competent survey of all the major writing on military revolutions in the West, as well as in the East, put out over the last 80 years or so. The editors feel perhaps a little apologetic about sounding Eurocentric when setting south Asian history against the Western experiences described and developed so rigorously by Geoffery Parker, Lynn-White Jr., Carlo Cipolla, John Gilmartin, Michael Roberts et al. Comparative history is, however, a fairly acceptable proposition. What is often crucial is the lack of the kind of evidence that is available to the researchers in European history. Moreover, more technical studies are needed on the chemistry of the explosives, the metallurgy of the weaponry, the architecture of fortifications, systems of transport before we branch into linkages with anthropology, etc. The era covered by this book, i.e., 1000-1800 AD is chosen because the first","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64786017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews : MUSHIRUL HASAN and NARIAKI NAKAZATO, eds, The Unfinished Agenda. Nation- building in South Asia, New Delhi, Manohar, 2001, pp. 536","authors":"Tirthankar Roy","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000206","url":null,"abstract":"important to recognise that Weber concentrated on the first and Durkheim on the second. In pushing through Weber’s thought that soteriology had to be distinguished from other types of religion, and accordingly being concerned with a world outside soteriology-while also recognising that ’Weber, unlike Durkheim, was not interested in analyzing the category of social religion’-I suspect Gellner’s interpretation, as it explores the social pathways by which Newar Buddhism asserted, and continues to assert itself, is being single-mindedly Durkheimian. It is important to be rather careful about the charge being laid here, especially since Gellner (in situating his collection as a whole) is concerned to register a movement","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64786076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews : JAYMALA DIDDEE and SAMITA GUPTA, Pune: Queen of the Deccan, Pune, Elephant Design Pvt Ltd., 2000, pp. 304","authors":"J. Laine","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64785629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'White women degrading themselves to the lowest depths' : European networks of prostitution and colonial anxieties in British India and Ceylon ca. 1880-1914","authors":"H. Fischer-Tiné","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000202","url":null,"abstract":"The international traffic in European prostitutes to South Asia became a matter of political debate both in Britain and India from the 1880s onwards. After discussing briefly the metropolitan obsession with the so-called 'White Slave Traffic', this article reconstructs the spread of the prostitution networks until WW I, gives a short account of the working conditions of the European prostitutes, and analyses the discourse it provoked around the topics of morality and racial prestige between various and often antagonistic sectors of colonial and metropolitan societies. By focusing on a group of 'white subalterns', this article challenges received notions af colonialism as an homogenous enterprise based on clear-cut racial distinctions and makes a strong argument for the introduction of 'class' as an important category for the understanding of the imperial project.","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64785974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turning the stones over: Sixteenth-century millenarianism from the Tagus to the Ganges","authors":"S. Subrahmanyam","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000201","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a conjunctural reading of a series of political and ideological currents that underpinned empire-building strategies over a good part of Eurasia in the sixteenth century. Drawing on recent research concerning Ottoman and other Mediterranean millenarian movements, it argues that one can understand these in a context that stretches as far as Portugal on the one hand, and Mughal India on the other. Such a reinterpretation allows us to approach the question of the 'Discoveries' anew, but it also gives us a methodological tool to pursue the project of 'connected histories' that places South Asia in a wider and interactive historical context.","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64785937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews : DAVID N. GELLNER, The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 397","authors":"Sasheej Hegde","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000205","url":null,"abstract":"mentality and methods were too Indian for an increasingly racist East India Company army. The last thematic section on ’Military Revolutions’ consists of Simon Digby’s essay ’The Problems of the Military Ascendancy of the Delhi Sultanate (from his War Horse and Elephant, 1971 ), Iqtidar Alam Khan’s ’Early Use of Cannon and Muskets in India, 1442-1526’, Doug Streusand’s ’The Process of Expansion’ and Jos Gommans’ ’Indian Warfare and Afghan Innovation during the Eighteenth Century’. They all contribute, in different ways, to the debate on military techniques of the Turks, the Mughals and the Afghans at the three most crucial conjunctures in medieval Indian history, namely in the thirteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Unfortunately the editors have not standardised the transliteration nor apparently checked for typos. Professor Iqtidar Alam Khan may be embarrassed to find himself the author of an article ’Metallurgy in Medieval India-the Case of the Cast-Iron Cannon’ (p. 34 n. 92; it is an early work by the present reviewer), while Professor Moosvi is referred to as ’Musir’.","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64786044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Damming the Mahanadi river: The emergence of multi-purpose river valley development in India (1943-46)","authors":"Rohan D’souza","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000104","url":null,"abstract":"Nehruvian mnnumentalism has often been described as the most significant driver for large dam construction in independent India. Political and popular imagination has, until recently, not only largely hailed the pursuit of multi-purpose river valley development (MPRVD) as heralding the nation into the modern moment, but, more signifecantly, the latter has been celebrated as a part of an apolitical consensus for national development. This article argues that MPRVD schemes were introduced in India in a political context where Indian capital and the colonial state were constituting a new rhetoric and paradigm for rule.","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64785616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews : RAJEN SAIKIA, Social and Economic History of Assam, 1853-1921, Manohar, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 258","authors":"Tirthankar Roy","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000108","url":null,"abstract":"courtesan households, and upwardly-mobile urban and rural groups negotiated a place in the middle class and its public sphere. Cultural attitudes of Hindu and Muslim middle classes could have been usefully compared. The author tells us that he had to leave out a lot of detail when transforming his doctoral thesis into a book. Readers might hope that this detail will find place in the author’s next book.","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/001946460304000108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64785720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}