Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness by Ruby Lal (New York: Cambridge University Press), 2013; pp 247, $95.00
Pilgrimage, Politics and Pestilence: The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860-1920 by Saurabh Mishra (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2011; pp 177, Rs 595.
Atiya's Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Sunil Sharma (Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2010; pp 352, Rs 599.