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... Abstract The Journal 's February 1998 issue (57.1) carried an error in Thomas R. Metcalf's review of Marina Carter, Servants, Sirdars and Settlers: Indians in Mauritius, 1834–1874 . On page 250, Hugh Tinker's A New System of Slavery was erroneously cited as published in 1994 instead of 1974...

... beyond older networks of scholarship and communication (Metcalf 1990; Eickelman 1992). Often modernist writers have signaled their break with past scholarly traditions by writing in vernaculars, sometimes developing new vernaculars. They wrote in Turkish, Urdu, Bengali, or Indonesian, rather than...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects . Edited by James L. Wescoat Jr , and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn . Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, volume 16. Washington : Dumbarton Oaks , 1996 . 288 pp. $60.00 (cloth...

...Thomas Metcalf Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India . By Pamela G. Price . University of Cambridge, Oriental Publications volume 51. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xviii, 220 pp. $54.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850–1922: Occidental Orientations . By Partha Mitter . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 . xxix, 475 pp. $89.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 756 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire . By Seema Alavi . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 504 pp. ISBN 9780674735330 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 With this stimulating book, Seema Alavi adds...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Abstract Most research into modern Indian economic and social history has so far been carried out in such large and well organized research centers as the National Archives in Delhi, the National Library in Calcutta, and the India Office Library in London. These institutions...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Agrarian Conditions in Northern India. Volume I: The United Provinces under British Rule 1860–1900 . By Elizabeth Whitcombe . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : University of California Press , 1972 . xxviii, 343 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Tables, Graphs, Appendices, Glossary...

...Thomas R. Metcalf A Particular Account of the European Military Adventurers of Hindustan from 1784 to 1803 . By Herbert Compton . With an introduction by John Pemble. Karachi and New York : Oxford University Press (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints), 1976 . xvi, 419 pp. $20.50...

...Barbara Metcalf Islam in the Indian Subcontinent . By Annemarie Schimmel . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1980 . viii , 303 pp. Indexes. N.p. Islam in India and Pakistan . By Annemarie Schimmel . Iconography of Religions, Section 22, fasc. 9. Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1982 . x , 34 pp...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 Separatism among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860–1923 . By Francis Robinson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1974 . Appendix, Index, xiii, 469 pp. $22.50 BOOK...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 1 Mackenzie Holt , Memorandum of 1 July 1819 Selections from the Revenue Records of the North-Western Provinces ( Calcutta : Government of India , 1866 ), p. 98 . For an alternate point...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Sleeman in Oudh: An Abridgement of W. H. Sleeman's A Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude in 1849–50 . Edited with an Introduction and Notes by P. D. Reeves . Cambridge : University Press , 1971 . xii , 329 pp. Illustrations, Appendices, Lists, Glossary, Index. $19.50...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Abstract With some exaggeration, one could claim that these three biographies, despite their disparate subjects—a seventeenth-century aristocratic lady of the Mughal court, an eighteenth-century French adventurer, and a twentieth-century Muslim intellectual and political figure...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Abstract I want to begin this evening by recalling my immediate predecessor as AAS president from the South Asian field, Barbara Stoler Miller, whose untimely death in 1992 took from us a distinguished Sanskritist, a gifted teacher, and a generous colleague whose absence we mourn...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Bhubaneshwar: From a Temple Town to a Capital City . By Ravi Kalia . Carbondale and Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press , 1994 . xx, 236 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 228 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Servants, Sirdars and Settlers: Indians in Mauritius, 1834—1874 . By Marina Carter . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xvii, 343 pp. $29.95(cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 249 by sending...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia . By Ayesha Jalal . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2008 . xvii , 373 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 This is an ambitious book on a topic that could...

...Thomas R. Metcalf India's Colonial Encounter: Essays in Memory of Eric Stokes . Edited by Mushirul Hasan and Narayani Gupta . Delhi : Manohar , 1993 . ix, 412 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 969 Hindi or Rajasthani...

...Thomas R. Metcalf Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity—India, 1880–1980 . By Jon Lang , Madhavi Desai , and Miki Desai . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1997 . xxi, 347 pp. $115.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK...