SHAIL MAYARAM/ Mughal state formation: The Mewati counter perspective, p. 169

RUDY BAUSS/ A demographic study of Portuguese India and Macau as well as comments on Mozambique and Timor, 1750-1850, p. 199

SATPAL SANGWAN/ The strength of a scientific culture: Interpreting disorder in colonial science, p. 217

Book Reviews
• S.B. Cook, Imperial Affinities: Nineteenth Century Analogies and Exchanges between India and Ireland, by S. Ambirajan, p. 251

• Peter Ward Fay, The Forgotten Army, India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 194245, by Kaushik Roy, p. 253

• K.S. Mathew, ed., Mariners, Merchants and Oceans: Studies in Maritime History, by Lakshmi Subramaniam, p. 254

• Shireen Moosvi, Episodes in the Life of Akbar: Contemporary Records and Reminiscences, by Tasneem Suhravewardy, p. 257

• Rajat K. Ray. ed., Mind, Body and Society: Life and Mentality in Colonial Bengal, by Swaraj Basu, p. 258

• Brian Robson, ed., Roberts in India, The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893, by Kaushik Roy, p. 260

• Kumkum Roy, Emergence of Monarchy in North India, Eighth-Fourth Centuries BC: As Reflected in the Brahmanical Tradition, by Nayanjot Lahiri, p. 262

• Yunus Samad, A Nation in Turmoil, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1937-1958, by Neera Chandhoke, p. 264

• Anuradha Seneviratna, ed., King Asoka and Buddhism: Historical and Literary Studies, by Nayanjot Lahiri, p. 267

• A.R. Venkatachalapathy, ed., Bharatiyin Karutthuppadangal India, 1906-1910, by S. Ambirajan, p. 269

• Letter to the Editor from Professor Dilip Simeon 271

• Reply from Dr Vinay Bahl 273