The Indian Economic
and Social History Review

DOUGLAS E. HAYNES/ Market formation in Khandesh, c. 1820-1930, p. 275

DAVID HALL-MATTHEWS/ Colonial ideologies of the market and famine policy in Ahmednagar district, Bombay Presidency, c. 1870-1884, p. 303

SUMIT GUHA/ Weak states and strong markets in South Asian development, c. 1700-1970, p. 335

MINOTI CHAKRAVARTY-KAUL/ Market success or community failure? Common property resources in colonial north India and a case illustration from a cluster, p. 355

Book Reviews

• Dharma Kumar, Colonialism, Private Property and the State, by David Ludden, p. 259
• Arun Banerji, Finances in the Early Raj: Investments and the External Sector, by Tirthankar Roy p. 389
  
• Lindsey Harlan and Paul B. Courtright, eds, From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion and Culture, by Kumkum Roy, p. 391
  
• Anita Raina Thapan, Understanding Ganapati: Insights into the Dynamics of a Cult, by Greg Bailey, p. 393
  
• Ranabir Samaddar, Memory, Identity, Power: Politics in the Jungle Mahals (West Bengal) 1890-1950, by Biswamoy Pati, p. 395
  
• Ralph Shlomowitz with Lance Brennan and John McDonald, Mortality and Migration in the Modern World, by Waltraud Ernst, p. 397
  
• Sanjay Subrahmanyam, The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, by Asiya Siddiqi, p. 399

  Short Notices
  

• Joseph W. Elder, Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Ainslie T. Embree, eds, India's World and US. Scholars, 1947-1997, p. 403
  
• Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery, Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India, p. 403
  Jeffrey P. Mass, ed., The Origins of Japan's Medieval World Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century, p. 404
  
• John F. Richards, ed., Kingship and Authority in South Asia, p. 404
  
• Mikulas Teich and Roy Porter, eds, The Industrial Revolution in National Context, p. 405