Comparative essays on Asia and the West /Conceptualizing development : the historical-sociological tradition in Dutch non-western sociology /Time matters : global and local time in Asian societies /A people of migrants : ethnicity, state and religion in Karachi /Communities and electorates : a comparative discussion of communalism in colonial India /Martyrdom and political resistance : essays from Asia and Europe /State, village, and ritual in Bali : a historical perspective /Ideological innovation under monarchy : aspects of legitimation activity in contemporary Brunei /The centrality of Central Asia /Asian capitalists in the European mirror /On the production of knowledge : fieldwork in South Gujarat, 1971-1991 /Unsettled frontiers and transnational linkages : new tasks for the historian of modern Asia /The state of Bihar : an economic history without footnotes /Seductive mirage : the search for the village community in Southeast Asia /The shattered image : construction and deconstruction of the village in colonial Asia /