Summerhill IIAS Review Vol. XXIV, No. 1 (Summer 2018) ISSN: 0972-1452 General Editor Makarand R. Paranjpe Editor Ranjeeta Duta Assistant Editor and Production Prem Chand Subscription Single Issue Rs. 50.00 Annual (Two Issues) Rs. 100.00 Three Years (Six Issues) Rs. 250.00 All correspondence regarding manuscripts, subscription, etc. may be addressed to: Sales and Public Relations Ofcer Indian Institute of Advanced Study Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla – 171005 Tel.: +91-177-2832930 Fax.: +91-177-2831389 E-mail: spro@iias.ac.in All rights reserved. No part of this Journal may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publisher. CONTENTS Regions, Identities and Entangled Geographies 1 An Introduction RANJEETA DUTTA Research Articles 1. Spatial Perceptions in Early Tamil Poetry 6 V. RAJESH 2. The Idea of Delhi 13 SWAPNA LIDDLE 3. Imperial Hygiene and Popular Culture in the 19 Colonial Hill Stations in the Indian Himalaya QUEENY PRADHAN 4. Production of North Eastern Region: Colonial 26 Construction and Nationalist Afrmation SAJAL NAG 5. Kumaun Histories and Kumauni Identities 36 c. 1815 to 1990s VASUDHA PANDE 6. ‘A Legacy of Divided Nations’: Partitions and the 45 Making of North-Eastern India From Colonial to Post-Colonial Times BINAYAK DUTTA 7. Delineating Sacred Landscapes: Community Voices 52 from Ellora-Khuldabad-Daulatabad YAAMINEY MUBAYI 8. Between Ramgarh and Bambai: 59 The Leftover Geography of Bhojpuri Cinema AKSHAYA KUMAR 9. Social Exclusion: Historical or Colonial Legacy? 65 GOWHAR YAQOOB In Translation: Poems From the Malwa Region of Punjab 74 VIVEK SACHDEVA Book Reviews 1. In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in 80 Fifteenth-century Gujarat MAYANK KUMAR 2. Archives of Empire 82 SABYASACHI DASGUPTA 3. Visual Histories of South Asia 85 BIDISHA DHAR 4. Urban Spaces in Modern India 87 RACHNA MEHRA 5. Himalayan Histories: Economy, Polity, Religious Traditions 89 RASHMI PANT 6. Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writings 91 NEELIMA KANWAR