Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. In the game of the ‘have and have nots’ of the texts, the illiterate communities remain the victims. Who produced whose text and ‘interest’ are similarly important in order to understand the reliability of text…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. This article studies Dutch East India Company’s interest in Bengal and their relations with local Mughal officials during the seventeenth century. The Dutch faced constant problems with the local officials. The…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. In this article, an attempt has been made to make a nuanced study of the images portrayed of the shaikh by Hamid Qalandar and his protagonist, Shaikh Nasiruddin, in the malfuzat of the shaikh entitled Khairul M…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. This study is based on an interesting debate between the British authorities and the Indian nationalists over the issues of frequent famines during the colonial period in India. The British officials largely em…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. Kerala, towards the end of the nineteenth century, witnessed an awakening which left impressions on all the walks of the society. The advent of modernity, which was triggered by the British rule as well the sta…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. After discovery of the Pāḍariyā pillar inscription in 1896, it has been generally believed that the spot of Buddha’s birth was situated very close to the location of that inscribed pillar. It is because the ins…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. The village communities of Goa, like their counterparts in Karnataka, performed an important function. They provided the spiritual and material bases for the process of state formation. The kings selected the B…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. The sultans of Gujarat tried to transform the landscape by planting native and exotic trees and introducing gardens on the perceived Central-Asian Khorasan style to underpin their control over the acquired or c…