...Sandria B. Freitag Abstract Using the term “legacy” for a career as productive, insightful, and pathbreaking as Chris Bayly's is doubtless an understatement. The movement in his publications from the transitional world in the Indian subcontinent leading to British imperialism, through aspects...

...Sunil Amrith Abstract Having had the privilege of being taught by Chris Bayly as an undergraduate, I can hear Remaking the Modern World in his voice. I can hear it in the form of the dazzling lectures—never showy, but perspective-shifting week after week—that were the kernels from which this book...

... modernity. For in addition to being an attempt to explain how the global crises of the early twentieth century helped to “engender a revival of the parochial” (p. 326) in the present, C. A. Bayly's Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 offers a set of design principles for how to imagine that historical...

...R. Bin Wong Abstract Commenting on Christopher Bayly's Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 is a bittersweet exercise. My assignment for this forum is to consider Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 from the vantage point of China studies. I will do so by framing my remarks with respect to some...

...Susan Bayly Mukkuvar Women: Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community . By Kalpana Ram . London and New Jersey : Zed Press , 1991 . xix, 216 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 760 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...C. A. Bayly The City in Indian History: Urban Demography, Society, and Politics . Edited by Indu Banga . New Delhi : South Asia Publications , 1991 . xviii, 300 pp. Ports and Their Hinterlands in India (1700–1950) . Edited by Indu Banga . New Delhi : Manohar Publications...

...C. A. Bayly An Economic History of India: From Pre-Colonial Times to 1986 . By Dietmar Rothermund . London : Croom Helm , 1988 . 214 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 979 end of each section. Of the 532 monographs...

... Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. A less recent book which I think is an under-appreciated breakthrough for this effort is Chris Bayly's Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780–1830 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Final proposals: 1) Every...

... to the analysis of anticolonialism and the collapse of European rule in South and Southeast Asia. It was there, after all, that the ideology of a civilizational mission was revealed in all its hypocrisy. Such, at least, is the impression one gathers from reading the works of Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper...

... Asian Studies. Included in it are an introductory essay by eal himself entitled “Imperialism and Nationalism in India,” two essays on U.P. by C. A. Bayly and F. C. Robinson entitled “Patrons and politics in northern India” and “Municipal Government and Muslim separatism in the United Provinces, 1883...

...Michael H. Fisher Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion . By C. A. Bayly . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1983 . xiii, 472 pp. Bibliographical Note, Glossary, Index. $59.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984...

...Pamela G. Price Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Asian Society, 1700–1900 . By Susan Bayly . New York : Cambridge University Press , South Asian Studies 43, 1990 . xv, 504 pp. $59.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK...

...Leonard A. Gordon The Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad 1880–1920 . By C. A. Bayly . Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 1975 . xvii, 314 pp. Maps, Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, Notes, Index. $32.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976...

... based on “reading against the grain” of a work of biography opens new directions for studying how individuals imagined their territories, communities, and spaces in the thirteenth century. —Vinayak Chaturvedi The forum is entitled “C. A. Bayly's Remaking the Modern World : Interpretations from...

.... What was the ultimate dénouement of such liberal aspirations during the later phases of the nationalist movement in India? The arena of liberal political opinion, Bayly contends, operated independently of the traditional sphere of religion, and this separation broke down after 1914, when Indian...

... credit, Mr. Bayly does go beyond this approach and does delve, for example, into the Hindu and Muslim communal organizations developing in Allahabad in his period and shows how they influenced municipal and regional politics. He does allow that Indians are sometimes capable of making commitments...

...Sandria B. Freitag The Raj: India and the British 1600–1947 . Edited by C. A. Bayly . London : National Portrait Gallery , 1990 . 432 pp; 500 illustrations. £40.00 (cloth); £19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 713...

...Sumit Guha Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India . By C. A. Bayly . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 xii, 338 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 256 THE JOURNAL...

... Society in the Age of British Expansion. By C. A. BAYLY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xiii, 472 pp. Bibliographical Note, Glossary, Index. $59.50 Bayly's ground-breaking volume will long remain central to the discussion of early modern North Indian history. By re-creating the "patterns...

...Majid H. Siddiqi Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870 . By C. A. Bayly . Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xiv, 412 pp. $64.95(cloth). Copyright © The Association...