Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 25-46, June 2023. This article challenges the traditional view that Dalits† gave up their right to representation when Ambedkar signed the Poona Pact and agreed to joint electorates, which allowed cast…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 198-200, June 2023. Santosh Kumar Rai, Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces (Delhi: Primus, 2021), xx + 515 pp., ₹1,595, ISBN: 9789390737758 (Hardback).
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 196-197, June 2023. Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj, State and Peasant Society in Medieval North India: Essays on Changing Contours of Mewat, Thirteenth to Eighteenth Century (Delhi: Primus Books, 2019), 220 pp., …
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 159-192, June 2023. Recent articles on temple desecration in pre-modern India and Indo-Muslim states by Richard M. Eaton published in Frontlilne have contributed to the popular Western narratives about…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 129-145, June 2023. With the establishment of tea plantations in Assam in the first half of the nineteenth century, colonial tea planters and scientists began to examine ways to profitably produce tea …
Indian Historical Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 201-202, June 2023. Jean-Francois Salles, Sources on the Gauda Period in Bengal: Essay in Archaeology (Delhi: Primus Book, 2020), xvi + 249 pp., ₹1,095, ISBN: 9789390022847 (Hardback).
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. The decade of the 1930s appears to be one of the most tumultuous as well as complex in the timeline of India’s anti-colonial struggle. It witnessed a close interplay of community-based identities and their poli…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. Exploring the cordial relationship and mutual respect between Gandhiji and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), this article critically examines the political rhetoric against the RSS and its implications. As…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. The second urbanisation in Indian history coincides with the processes of state formation, expansion of agriculture, spread of iron technology and wet rice cultivation. Needless to say, these together with many…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. Hindu women’s marriage reform remained a contentious issue in colonial Andhra. The Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929, popularly known as the Sarda Act, originally fixed the minimum age of marriage of girls a…