This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the
recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's transition to …

The news media are in crisis across the developed world. Journalism as we know it is being
described, obviously with some exaggeration, as' collapsing','disintegrating', in'meltdown'. In …

The nineteenth century idea of self-sufficient'village republics' was a mainstay of Eurocentric
conceptions of pre-colonial India as a stagnant'civilization'without history. The discovery of …

Discussions on economic planning and development in India were of course far from new to
the wartime period. They had emerged in the context of the Great Depression, both in official …

Since 1947, the relationship between Indian society and the British empire has provided the
most important frame of reference for scholars writing about the history of modern India …

This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the
city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated …

This article engages with a long critical tradition, particularly amongst historians of India but
also more generally within environmental and economic history, which describes the …

The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom
are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the …

The East India Company, through its post offices, attempted to assert a variety of controls
over Indian peoples, including control over systems for the circulation of written information …