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ARTICLES Victor LIEBERMAN: Secular Trends in Burmese Economic History, c. 1350-1830, and their Implications for State Formation C. Fassevur: Purse or Principle: Dutch Colonial Policy in the 1860s and the Decline of the Cultivation System Davip G. Dicxason: The Nineteenth-Century Indo- American Ice Trade: A Hyperborean Epic R. S. McGrecor: A Hindi Writer’s View of Social, Political and Language Issues of his Time: Attitudes of Hariscandra of Banaras (1850-1885) Tuomas D. Rerns: Reform, Nationalism and Internationalism: The Opium Suppression Movement in China and the Anglo-American Influence, 1g00—1908 STEWART Lone: The Japanese Annexation of Korea 1910: The Failure of East Asian Co-Prosperity So War-cuor: The Origins of the ‘Wang—Chiang Cooperation’ in 1932 BALA SHANMUGAM: Socio-Economic Development through the Informal Credit Market SANDRIA B. FREITAG: Crime in the Social Order of Colonial North India CHRISTOPHER V. HI t: Philosophy and Reality in Riparian South Asia: British Famine Policy and Migration in Colonial North India Dick Koorman: Mass Movement, Famine and Epidemic: A Study in Interrelationship Davip L. Wuirte: From Crisis to Community Definition: The Dynamics of Eighteenth-Century Parsi Philanthropy LAKSHMI SUBRAMANIAN: The Eighteenth-Century Social Order in Surat: A Reply and an Excursus on the Riots of 1788 and 1795 MICHELGUGLIELMO Torri: Trapped inside the Colonial Order: The Hindu Bankers of Surat and their Business World during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century Anita M. Wess: South Asian Muslims in Hong Kong: Creation ofa ‘Local Boy’ Identity PreTerR Harnetty: ‘Deindustrialization’ Revisited: The Handloom Weavers of the Central Provinces of India, c. 1800-1947 Davip Baker: Colonial Beginnings and the Indian Response: The Revolt of 1857-58 in Madhya Pradesh Douctas M. Peers: “The Habitual Nobility of Being’: British Officers and the Social Construction of the Bengal Army in the Early Nineteenth Century LioneL Cap.Lan: ‘Bravest of the Brave’: Representations of ‘The Gurkha’ in British Military Writings Oxuca NreuwENHoys: Emancipation for Survival: Access to Land and Labour of Thandans in Kerala C. F. Yone: Origins and Development of the Malayan Communist Movement, 1919-1930 Tim Wricut: Coping with the World Depression: The Nationalist Government’s Relations with Chinese Industry and Commerce, 1932-1936 Mivuiz R. CreicutTon: Maintaining Cultural Boundaries in Retailing: How Japanese Department Stores Domesticate ‘Things Foreign’ HERMANN KREUTZMANN: The Karakoram Highway: The Impact of Road Construction on Mountain Societies Nerv Rasitoy: The Control of Fate and Fortune: The Origins of the Market Mentality in British Administrative Thought in South Asia AprRIAN C. Mayer: Rulership and Divinity: The Case of the Modern Hindu Prince and Beyond Lucy Carro tu: Daughter’s Right of Inheritance in India: A Perspective on the Problem of Dowry Prem Cuowpury: Social Support Base and Electoral Politics: The Congress in Colonial Southeast Punjab REVIEWS Imagining India. By Ronald Inden (Declan Quigley) Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India 1860-1947. By Farzana Shaikh (Akbar S. Ahmed) Pakistan. The Social Sciences’ Perspective. Edited by Akbar S. Ahmed (Javed Majeed) Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Translated by Naomi Lazard (Alamgir Hashmi) Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’: South Asia. Edited by Hamza Alavi and John Harriss (Zaheer Baber)