Harald Fischer-Tiné and Jana Tschurenev (eds), A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia: Intoxicating Affairs, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, 2014, xiv + 232 pp., ₹3,195.
Ishita Banerjee-Dube, A History of Modern India, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 486 pp.; Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy, Third Edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014, 274 pp.; and Thomas R. Trautmann, India: A Brief History of a Civilization, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011, 242 pp.
Sheila Zurbrigg, Epidemic Malaria and Hunger in Colonial Punjab: Weakened by Want—The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia, Taylor and Francis Books, Routledge, Abingdon, NY, 2019, 470 pp, ₹1,337, ISBN 9780367247300
Book review: Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent, written by Burjor Avari