COMPARATIVE STUDIES
IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY

Volume 50 Number 1 January 2008

Editorial Foreword

In Retrospect

RAYMOND GREW  On the Society and History of CSSH

THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN  Being Editor

Continuities of Development

ALYOSHA GOLDSTEIN  On the Internal Border: Colonial Difference, the Cold War, and the Locations of “Underdevelopment”

SUBIR SINHA  Lineages of the Developmentalist State: Transnationality and Village India, 1900–1965

Informal Networks and the System

GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS  Stalin and the Politics of Kinship: Practices of Collective Punishment, 1920s–1940s

ALENA LEDENEVA  Blat and Guanxi: Informal Practices in Russia and China

Transnational Revisions

DAVID FITZGERALD  Colonies of the Little Motherland: Membership, Space, and Time in Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations

C. J. FULLER and HARIPRIYA NARASIMHAN  From Landlords to Software Engineers: Migration and Urbanization among Tamil Brahmans

Modernizing Missions

STEPHANIE CRONIN  Importing Modernity: European Military Missions to Qajar Iran

DAFNA HIRSCH  “Interpreters of Occident to the Awakening Orient”: The Jewish Public Health Nurse in Mandate Palestine

Anti Anti-secularism

JANAKI BAKHLE  Music as the Sound of the Secular

The Human as Specimen

SIMON J. HARRISON  Skulls and Scientific Collecting in the Victorian Military: Keeping the Enemy Dead in British Frontier Warfare

LYNN M. MORGAN  The Embryography of Alice B. Toklas

CSSH Discussion

CSSH Notes