The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 5-36, January–March 2022. This article presents a historical account of the public lives of philanthropic endeavours that involved business actors in western India, from the late …
The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 123-125, January–March 2022. Uma Das Gupta, ed., Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’: Andrews, Tagore and Gandhi—An Epistolary Account, 1912–1940. Delhi: Oxford University Pres…
The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 119-121, January–March 2022. Devika Sethi, War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930–1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 289 pp.
The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 125-127, January–March 2022. Benjamin Robert Siegel, Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 280 pp.
The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 121-123, January–March 2022. Sahara Ahmed, Woods, Mines and Minds: Politics of Survival in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals, 1860–1970. Delhi: Primus Books, 2019, 300 pp.
The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 75-94, January–March 2022. The article seeks to show how Assam’s riverine environment, and its natural resources, generated and inflected a process of commercialisation in the nin…
The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 95-117, January–March 2022. Science journalism in Hindi originated in the late nineteenth century. Hindi literary periodicals provided the first platform for science to be discuss…
The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 37-73, January–March 2022. This article studies how the distribution of the work of punkah-pulling in European households and barracks of colonial India involved European masters …