Indian Historical Review
Colonial Roots of the Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory and the Contemporary Archaeological Evidence in Western Sources
Indian Historical Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 251-272, December 2021. William Jones, famously, by identifying close linkages between Sanskrit and European languages, gave birth to research into the common ancestry between Indians and Europeans. In…
Indian Historical Review
The Waqf Estates of Pānḍūa: Historical Analysis (from Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
Indian Historical Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 273-291, December 2021. In its first section, the article examines the creation of two major Sufi institutions, the khanqāhs of Shaikh Jalāluddīn Tabrīzī (d. 1225) known as Badi dargāh and Shaikh Nūr Q…
Indian Historical Review
Indian Women in World War II: The Air Raid Precaution ‘Comfort’ Women
Indian Historical Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 202-217, December 2021. The main focus of this article is on the war-stricken ecology of World War II and the notable role played by Indian women as Air Raid Precaution Wardens. They gave their unmatch…
Indian Historical Review
Social Clubs in a Princely State: The Case from Hyderabad, Deccan
Indian Historical Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 187-201, December 2021. Social clubs began in India in the late eighteenth century in the wake of British colonial expansion. Clubs flourished in colonial India’s two great administrative divisions: th…
Indian Historical Review
Buderas—A Pastoralist Community of High Himalayan Society: Migration, Identity, Existence and Belief
Indian Historical Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 331-343, December 2021. Buderas are inhabitants of Gangi, Pinswar and Ginwali, three villages in Tehri district of Uttarakhand. They are basically grazers, who, at a certain point of time in history, m…
Journal of Cultural Economy
Smartphones for drugs: exchange relations in a South African gang since apartheid
Volume 15, Issue 2, April 2022, Page 247-263.