Book Reviews : JANE BUCKINGHAM, Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement, Palgrave, 2002

would have preferred to place Raju’s contribution at the beginning, rather than at the end of the volume, as has indeed been done by the editors. Absence of any contribution of Andhra should be seen as a significant desideratum of the volume. It needs to be recalled that in 1989 Professor Champakalakshmi had organised a similar seminar under the auspices of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The theme then was ’The State in Pre-Colonial South India’ and major participants included all those who are marked with an asterisk in the aforesaid list of contributors to the Thrissur Seminar. The major concerns of the JNU Seminar were not very dissimilar and some of the presentations too were on common themes. For example, M.G.S. Narayanan’s paper dealt with ’The Cera Kingdom of Makotai-Factual and Conceptual Problems Related to State Formation in Kerala’ (but unlike the Thrissur presentation, this one was situated within Marc