Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 345-348, December 2023. Sudit Krishna Kumar and Suvobrata Sarkar, Contextualizing the Body: An Indian Experience. New Delhi: Manohar Publisher, 2021, ₹1,650, ISBN: 9789 390035540.
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 322-343, December 2023. This article presents a fresh perspective on tea cultivation in Assam, negating the widely held belief that the British Empire’s introduction to Assam tea symbolised societal ad…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 344-345, December 2023. J. S. Grewal, Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708): Master of the White Hawk. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 297 pp., ₹1,100, ISBN 9780199494941.
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. Rammohun Roy, the liberal reformer of the early nineteenth century, and perhaps the first Indian to comprehensively embrace the ideal of modernity, encountered a volley of criticisms during his lifetime and bey…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. This article is an attempt at scrutinising the rural and agrarian structure through a caste framework in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Bihar, a period when Bihar was undergoing economic, env…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. Kāvya is literature as art. Few modern scholars have suspected such aesthetic and affective literature to possess an impulse for capturing human history, and certainly not in any form consistent with modern not…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. Many dharmaśāstra texts, starting from the most famous, the Manusmr+ti, declare sea voyage to be sinful and polluting for a Hindu. At the same time, from remote antiquity, Hindus from various castes, including …
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. It is a general belief that when a person undertakes any business enterprise, he calculates profit as his ultimate aim. Profit is defined as the monetary gain made by a person by selling something for more than…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 193-195, June 2023. Meeta Deka (Ed.), Urbanism in South Asia: Northeast India Outside-In (Delhi: Primus Books, 2020), viii + 340pp., ₹1,195, ISBN: 9789390022335 (Hardback).
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 70-89, June 2023. One of the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, the Adis, lacked the skill to produce finished goods they used, yet they obtained them from Tibet by means of long-distance trade. Tibetan mate…