Special Issue

STUDIES Friendship in
Pre-Modern South Asia

Guest Editors

IN DaudAli and
Kunal Chakrabarti

HISTORY
February 2017 Volume 33 Number 1

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 Studies in
Volume 33 Number I February 2017 History

Special Issue: Friendship in Pre-Modern South Asia

Guest Editors: Daud Ali and Kunal Chakrabarti

Contents

Articles

Friendship in Indian History: Introduction I

Daud Ali and Emma J. Flatt

Friend, Enemy, Frenemy: The Hitopadesa on Making and

Breaking Friendship 7
Urmila Patii

The Ecology of Friendship: Early Tamil Landscapes of Irony and Voice 26

Martha Ann Selby

The Death of a Friend: Companionship, Loyalty and Affiliation in

Chola South India 36
Daud Ali

Practicing Friendship: Epistolary Constructions of

Social Intimacy in the Bahmani Sultanate 61
Emma J. Flatt

Babur: Salt, Social Closeness and Friendship 82

Stewart Gordon

The Female Companion in a World of Men: Friendship and

Concubinage in Late Eighteenth-century Marwar 98
Priyanka Khanna

Book Reviews

Aruna Pariti, Genealogy, Time and Identity 1 17

Reviewed by Romila Thapar
V. Ravi Vaithees, Relipon, Caste and Nation in South India: Maraimalai
Adigal, the Neo-Saivite Movement, and Tamil Nationalism I j9
Reviewed by Rajsekhar Basu

Gita Dharampal Frick, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Rachel Dwyer and

Jahnavi Phalkey (eds), Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies 123
Reviewed by Nivedita Menon
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Volume 33 Number 2 August 2017 History

Contents

Articles

From the Cult of Chivalry to the Cult of Personality:

The Seventh-century Transformation in Pallava Statecraft 127
Monu V. Devadevan

The King's Plunder, the King's Justice: Sovereignty in

British India, 1756-76 I5I
Rahul Govind

The Problem of Alcohol in Colonial India (c. 1907-1942) 187

Nandini Bhattacharya

Technical Education Discourse in India: State and the Artisans,

I880S-I9I4 213
Bidisha Dhar

Partition in Bengal: Re-visiting the Caste Question, 1946-47 234

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay andAnasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

Review Article

Bhakti,the Alvdr and ^corya: Situating the History of

SrTVaisnavism in South India 262
R. Mahalakshmi

Book Reviews

Sudeshna Guha,4rtefocts ofHistory:Archaeology, Historiography and

Indian Pasts 272
Reviewed by SupriyaVarma

Shereen Ratnagar,Harappan Archaeology:Early Stote Perspectives 275

Reviewed by Sudeshna Guha
Upinder Singh, The Idea ofAncient India: Essays on Religion,
Politics and Archaeology 279
Reviewed by Kanad Sinha

Lakshmi Subramanian, The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering

Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral 284
Reviewed by Claude Markovits

Debjani Das,Houses of Madness:Insanity and Asylums of

Bengal in Nineteenth-century India 287
Reviewed by Amitranjan Basu