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ARTICLES page PATRICIA JEFFERY, ROGER JEFFERY AND CRAIG JEFFREY: Islamization, Gentrification and Domestication: ‘A Girls’ IslamicfCourse’ and Rural Muslims in Western Uttar Pradesh PREM CHOWDHRY: Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India Davip HENLEY: Conflict, Justice and the Stranger-King Indigenous Roots of Colonial Rule in Indonesia and Elsewhere YINGCONG Dat: A Disguised Defeat: The Myanmar Campaign of the Qing Dynasty ALAN STRATHERN: Theoretical Approaches to Sri Lankan History and the Early Portuguese Period TERESA HUBEL: In Search of the British Indian in British India: White Orphans, Kipling’s Kin, and Class in Colonial India MICHAEL WILLIAMS: Hong Kong and the Pear! River Delta Qiaoxiang BENJAMIN A. ELMAN: Naval Warfare and the Refraction of China’s Self-Strengthening Reforms into Scientific and Technological Failure, 1869-1895 HonG Lysa: ‘Stranger within the Gates’: Knowing Semi-Colonial Siam as Extraterritorials KYUNG Moon Hwanc: Citizenship, Social Equality and Government Reform: Changes in the Household Registration System in Korea, 1894-1910 NICHOLASJ . WHITE: The Beginnings of Crony Capitalism: Business, Politics and Economic Development in Malaysia, C. 1955-70 NILE GREEN: Stories of Saints and Sultans: Remembering History at the Sufi Shrines of Aurangabad MARGARET SLOCOMB: Commune Elections in Cambodia: 1981 Foundations and 2002 Reformulations IANJ . BARROW AND DouGLas E. HAyNEs: The Colonial Transition: South Asia, 1780-1840 DAviID WASHBROOK: South India 1770-1840: The Colonial Transition T. R. TRAVERS: “The Real Value of the Lands’: The Nawabs, the British and the Land Tax in Eighteenth-century Bengal VijAY PINCH: Gosain Tawaif: Slaves, Sex, and Ascetics in Rasdhan, ca. 1800-1857 DuRBA GHOSH: Household Crimes and Domestic Order: Keeping the Peace in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1770-1840 JOHN D. RoGers: Early British Rule and Social Classification in Lanka MicHAEL H. FisHer: Indian Political representations in Britain during the Transition to Colonialism IAN J. BARROW: India for the Working Classes: The Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge SUSAN BayLy: Imagining ‘Greater India’: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode MARK Moyakr: Political Monks: The Militant Buddhist Movement during the Vietnam War A. J. STOCKWELL: Britain and Brunei, 1945-1963: Imperial Retreat and Royal Ascendancy AMITY A. DOOLITTLE: Powerful Persuasions: The Language of Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo), 1881-1996 LIAN XI: The Search for Chinese Christianity in the Republican Period (1912-1949) JANICE MATSUMURA: Mental Health as Public Peace: Kaneko Junji and the Promotion of Psychiatry in Modern Japan Kim A. WAGNER: The Deconstructed Stranglers: A Reassessment of Thuggee D. K. LAniRI CHOUDHURY: Sinews of Panic and the Nerves of Empire: the Imagined State’s Entanglement with Information Panic, India c. 1880-1912 965 RUCHIRA GHOSE: Sanjhi: ‘Rang Sey Roshni’ From Colour to Light 1003 REVIEWS Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India By Norbert Peabody (Lynn Zastoupil) The Laghukatha. A Historical and Literary Analysis of aM odern Hindi Prose Genre. By Ira Valeria Sharma (Francesca Orsini)