The Indian Economic
and Social History Review

FINBARR BARRY FLOOD/ Ghurid monuments and Muslim identities: Epigraphy and exegesis in twelfth century Afghanistan, p. 263

HARALD FISCHBR TINE/ Britain's other civilising mission: Class prejudice, European `loaferism' and the workhouse system in colonial India, p. 295

INDRAJIT RAY/ The silk industry in Bengal during colonial rule: The 'de industrialisation' thesis revisited, p. 339

A Review Symposium
Literary Cultures in History, p. 377

• Burkhard Schnepel, The Jungle Kings: Ethnohi storical Aspects of Politics and Ritual in Orissa, by Mridu Rai, p. 409
• Gyanendra Pandey and Peter Gescheire, eds, The Forging of Nationhood, SEPHIS and Manohar, by V Geetha, p. 412
• Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, Medieval India: Essays in Intellectual Thought and Culture, by Sunil Sharma, p. 415
• Jeffrey Cox, Imperial Fault Liner: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, by Zoe Sherinian, p. 417
• Mandakfanta Bose, ed., Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India, by Kumkum Roy, p. 419
• Julia Leslie and Mary McGee, eds, Invented Identities: The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India, by Kumkum Roy, p. 419
• Muhammad Ashraf Wani, Islam in Kashmir (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century), by R.L. Hangloo, p. 423
• Mushtaq A. Kaw, The Agrarian System of Kashmir (1586 1819), by R.L. Hangloo, p. 423
• Mushirul Hasan, ed., Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics and the Partition of India, by P.K. Datta, p. 425
• Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society 9), by J.C. Heesterman 428
• Ranajit Guha, History at the Limit of World History, by Denys Leighton, p. 433
• Stuart Blackburn, Print, Folklore, and Nationalism in South India, by A.R. Venkatachalapathy, p. 434
• Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India, by Uma Chakravarti, p. 436
• Iqtidar Alam Khan, Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India, by Jos Gommans, p. 439