PREM CHOWDHRY/ A matter of two shares: A daughter's claim to patrilineal property in rural north India, p. 289

KAUSHIK ROY/ Recruitment doctrines of the colonial Indian Army, 1859-1913, p. 321

INDRANI SEN/ Between power and 'purdah': The white woman in British India, 1858-1900, p. 355

Book Reviews
• Jan Breman, Footloose Labour, by Tirthankar Roy, p. 377

• Satish Chandra, Historiography, Religion and State in Medieval India, by Shalin Jain, p. 379

• Sushil Chaudhury, From Prosperity to Decline: Eighteenth-Century Bengal, by Lakshmi Subramanian, p. 379

• Jos J. L. Gommans, The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire: C 1710-1780, by Kaushik Roy, p. 382

• Michael H. Fisher, The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mohamed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England, by Indrani Chatterjee, p. 385

• Jack Goody, The East in the West, by Tirthankar Roy, p. 387

• Richard Saumarez Smith, Rule by Records: Land Registration and Village Custom in Early British Panjab, by Minoti Chakravarty Kaul, p. 389

• Tessie P. Liu, The Weaver's Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750-1914, by G. Balachandran, p. 391

• D.A. Low, The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa 1950-1980, by Dharma Kumar, p. 393

• Geoffrey A. Oddie, Popular Religion, Elites and Reform: Hook-swinging and its Prohibition in Colonial India, 1800-1894, by Dharma Kumar, p. 394

• David Shulman, ed., Syllables of Sky: Studies in South Indian Civilization in Honour of Velcheru Narayana Rao, by C.J. Fuller, p. 395

• Dilip Simeon, The Politics of Labour under Late Colonialism: Workers, Unions and the State in Chota Nagpur, 1928-1939, by Sumit Sarkar, p. 397

• Nasir Tyabji, Colonialism, Chemical Technology and Industry in Southern India, by Deepak Kumar, p. 400