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ARTICLES
Anooshahr, Ali/Shirazi scholars and the political culture of the sixteenth-century Indo-Persian world (no. 3, pp. 331–352).
Bhattacharya, Jayanta/The genesis of hospital medicine in India: The Calcutta Medical College (CMC) and the emergence of a new medical epistemology (no. 2, pp. 231–264).
Gillet, Valérie/The Dark Period: Myth or reality? (no. 3, pp. 283–302)
Hakala, Walter N./The authorial problem in the Ḵẖāliq Bārī of ‘Ḵẖusrau’ (no. 4, pp. 481–496).
Jangam, Chinnaiah/Desecrating the sacred taste: The making of Gurram Jashua—the father of dalit literature in Telugu (no. 2, pp. 177–198).
Jha, Pankaj Kumar/Beyond the local and the universal: Exclusionary strategies of expansive literary cultures in fifteenth century Mithila (no. 1, pp. 1–40).
Jha, Sadan/Challenges in the history of colours: The case of saffron (no. 2, pp. 199–230).
Mazumder, Rajashree/‘I do not envy you’: Mixed marriages and immigration debates in the 1920s and 1930s Rangoon, Burma (no. 4, pp. 497–527).
Mukharji, Projit Bihari/From serosocial to sanguinary identities: Caste, transnational race science and the shifting metonymies of blood group B, India c. 1918–1960 (no. 2, pp. 143–176).
Nomura, Chikayoshi/The origin of the controlling power of managing agents over modern business enterprises in colonial India (no. 1, pp. 95–132)
Ollett, Andrew/Ghosts from the past: India’s undead languages (no. 4, pp. 405–456).
Rashkow, Ezra D./Perfumed the axe that laid it low: The endangerment of sandalwood in southern India (no. 1, pp. 41–70).
Sengupta, Anwesha/Breaking up: Dividing assets between India and Pakistan in times of Partition (no. 4, pp. 529–548).
Sriraman, Tarangini/A petition-like application? Rhetoric and rationing documents in wartime Delhi, 1941–45 (no. 3, pp. 353–382).
Syan, Hardip Singh/The merchant gurus: Sikhism and the development of the medieval Khatri merchant family (no. 3, pp. 303–330)
Wagoner, Phillip B./Money use in the Deccan, c. 1350–1687: The role of Vijayanagara hons in the Bahmani currency system (no. 4, pp. 457–480)
Webb, Silas/‘Pet ke waaste’: Rights, resistance and the East Indian Railway Strike, 1922 (no. 1, pp. 71–94).
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