The Indian Economic and Social History Review
Volume XXXIII Number 2 April-June 1996
CONTENTS
ANDREW POPE/ Australian gold and the finance of India's exports
during World War I: A case study of imperial control and
coordination, p. 115
SUMIT GUHA/ Forest polities and agrarian empires: The Khandesh
Bhils, c. 1700-1850, p. 133
SOREN MENTZ/ English private trade on the Coromandel coast,
1660-1690: Diamonds and country trade, p. 155
ANIRUDH DESHPANDE/ Hopes and disillusionment: Recruitment,
demobilisation and the emergence of discontent in the Indian
armed forces after the Second World War. p. 175
**Book Reviews**
- Ashin Das Gupta, Merchants of Maritime India 1500-1800; Sinappah
Arasaratnam, Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century;
Om Prakash, Precious Metals and Commerce. The Dutch East India
Company in the Indian Ocean Trade; Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ed.,
Money and the Market in India 1100-1700; a review
article by Lakshmi Subramanian. p. 209
- Qeyamuddin Ahmad, The Wahhabi Movement in India,
by Richard M. Eaton, p. 219
Seema Alavi, The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition
in Northern India, 1770-1830, by Michael H. Fisher, p. 221
Ralph Russell, Hidden in the Lane: An Anthology of Two Centuries of
Urdu Literature, by Mushirul Hasan, p. 223