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Robb, Peter (2022) 'Review of: Neeladri Bhattacharya. 'The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World'.' The American Historical Review, 127 (3). pp. 1490-1491.

Robb, Peter (2013) 'Mr Upjohn’s Debts: Money and Friendship in Early Colonial Calcutta.' Modern Asian Studies, 47 (4). pp. 1185-1217.

Robb, Peter (2011) A History of India (second edition). Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Palgrave Essential Histories)

Robb, Peter (2011) Sentiment and Self. Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Robb, Peter (2011) Sex and Sensibility. Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Robb, Peter (2008) 'From Law to Rights: the Impact of the Colonial State on Peasant Protest in Bihar.' In: Pinch, William R., (ed.), Speaking of Peasants: Essays on Indian History and Politics in Honor of Walter Hauser. New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 29-56.

Robb, Peter (2007) 'On the Rebellion of 1857. A Brief History of an Idea.' Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (19). pp. 1696-1702.

Robb, Peter (2007) Liberalism, Modernity, and the Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Robb, Peter (2007) Peasants, Political Economy, and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Robb, Peter (2006) 'Children, Emotion, Identity and Empire: Views from the Blechyndens' Calcutta Diaries (1790-1822).' Modern Asian Studies, 40 (1). pp. 175-201.

Robb, Peter (2002) A History of India. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan.

Robb, Peter (2002) 'Landed Property, Agrarian Categories and the Agricultural Frontier: Some Reflections on Colonial India.' In: Blue, G., Bunton, M. and Croizier, R., (eds.), Colonialism in the Modern World. Armouk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 71-99.

Robb, Peter (2000) 'Credit, Work and Race in 1790s Calcutta: Early Colonialism through a Contemporary European View.' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 37 (1). pp. 1-25.

Robb, Peter (2000) 'On C.A. Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870.' Comparative Criticism, 22. pp. 243-249.

Robb, Peter (1998) Clash of cultures? an Englishman in Calcutta in the 1790s. An inaugural lecture given on 12 March 1998. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Robb, Peter (1998) 'Completing our "Stock of Geography", or an Object "Still More Sublime": Colin Mackenzie's Survey of Mysore 1799-1810.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 8 (2). pp. 181-206.

Robb, Peter (1997) 'The Colonial State and Constructions of Indian Identity: an Example on the North-East Frontier in the 1880s.' Modern Asian Studies, 31 (2). pp. 245-283.

Robb, Peter (1997) Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 and British Rule in India. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon.

Robb, Peter (1996) 'Distinctive Aspects of Rural Production in India: the Colonial Period.' In: Robb, Peter, Sugihara, Kaoru and Yanagisawa, Haruka, (eds.), Local agrarian societies in colonial India: Japanese perspectives. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, pp. 1-47. (Collected papers on South Asia, no. 11)

Robb, Peter, Sugihara, Kaoru and Yanagisawa, Haruka, eds. (1996) Local agrarian societies in colonial India: Japanese perspectives. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. (Collected papers on South Asia, no. 11)

Robb, Peter, ed. (1996) Meanings of agriculture: essays in South Asian history and economics. Delhi: Oxford University Press. (SOAS studies in South Asia)

Robb, Peter (1996) 'Variant Meanings of Agriculture: Implications for Research and Policy.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Meanings of agriculture: essays in South Asian history and economics. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-35. (SOAS studies in South Asia)

Robb, Peter (1995) 'South Asia and the Concept of Race.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), The concept of race in South Asia. Delhi; Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-76. (SOAS studies on South Asia)

Robb, Peter, ed. (1995) The concept of race in South Asia. Delhi; Oxford: Oxford University Press. (SOAS studies on South Asia)

Robb, Peter (1994) 'Labour in India 1860-1920. Typologies, Change and Regulation.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 4 (1). pp. 37-66.

Robb, Peter (1994) 'India and Britain: Some Reflections on their Material and Cultural Interaction since Independence.' In: Robb, Peter and Malik, Nadeem, (eds.), India and Britain: recent past and present challenges. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, pp. 3-30.

Robb, Peter and Malik, Nadeem, eds. (1994) India and Britain: recent past and present challenges. New Delhi: Allied Publishers.

Robb, Peter, ed. (1993) Dalit movements and the meanings of labour in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press. (SOAS studies on South Asia)

Robb, Peter (1993) 'Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar.' In: Arnold, David and Robb, Peter, (eds.), Institutions and Ideologies. A SOAS South Asia Reader. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, pp. 201-223. (Collected papers on South Asia, no. 10)

Robb, Peter (1993) 'The Impact of British Rule on Religious Community: Reflections on the Trial of Maulvi Ahmadullah of Patna in 1865.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Society and Ideology: Essays in South Asian History presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, pp. 142-176.

Arnold, David and Robb, Peter, eds. (1993) Institutions and Ideologies. A SOAS South Asia Reader. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. (Collected papers on South Asia, no. 10)

Robb, Peter (1993) 'Intermediaries and Change in Eighteenth-Century Gujarat: A Note on G.D. Sharma’s View of Credit, Revenue and Commerce.' In: Austin, Gareth and Sugihara, Kaoru, (eds.), Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750-1960. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, pp. 29-35.

Menski, Werner F (1993) 'Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage.' In: Arnold, David and Robb, Peter, (eds.), Institutions and ideologies: a SOAS South Asia reader. London: Routledge, pp. 148-164.

Robb, Peter (1993) 'Meanings of Labour in Indian Social Context.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Dalit movements and the meanings of labour in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-67. (SOAS studies on South Asia)

Robb, Peter, ed. (1993) Society and Ideology: Essays in South Asian History presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.

Robb, Peter (1993) 'Texts, Communities, and the History of Change in Modern South Asia.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Society and Ideology: Essays in South Asian History presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-21.

Robb, Peter (1992) 'Peasants' Choices? Indian Agriculture and the Limits of Commercialization in Nineteenth-Century Bihar.' The Economic History Review, 45 (1). pp. 97-119.

Robb, Peter (1992) 'Agrarian structure and economic development.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Agrarian structure and economic development: landed property in Bengal and theories of capitalism in Japan. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, pp. 1-23. (Occasional papers in Third-World economic history, no. 4)

Robb, Peter, ed. (1992) Agrarian structure and economic development: landed property in Bengal and theories of capitalism in Japan. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. (Occasional papers in Third-World economic history, no. 4)

Robb, Peter (1992) The evolution of British policy towards Indian politics, 1880-1920: essays on colonial attitudes, imperial strategies and Bihar. New Delhi: Manohar and Riverdale.

Robb, Peter (1991) 'Muslim Identity and Separatism in British India: the Significance of M.A. Ansari.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 56 (1). pp. 104-125.

Robb, Peter (1991) 'The Ordering of Rural India. British Control in 19th-Century Bengal and Bihar.' In: Anderson, David M. and Killingray, David, (eds.), Policing the Empire. Government, Authority and Control, 1830-1940. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, pp. 126-150.

Robb, Peter (1991) 'Town and Country: Economic Linkages and Political Mobilization in Bihar in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.' In: Hill, John L., (ed.), The Congress and Indian Nationalism. Historical Perspectives. London: Curzon Press; Wellesley Hills, MA: Riverdale, pp. 158-191. (Collected papers on South Asia, no. 9)

Robb, Peter (1990) 'Ideas in Agrarian History: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 122 (1). pp. 17-43.

Robb, Peter (1989) 'The British Empire in India, 1858-1947.' In: Robinson, Francis, (ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 116-120.

Robb, Peter (1988) 'Bihar, the Colonial State and Agricultural Development in India, 1880-1920.' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 25 (2). pp. 205-235.

Robb, Peter (1988) 'In Search of Dominant Peasants: Some Notes on the Implementation in Bihar of the Bengal Tenancy Act 1885.' In: Dewey, Clive, (ed.), Arrested Development in India. Manohar: New Delhi, pp. 187-222.

Robb, Peter (1988) 'Law and Agrarian Society in India: The Case of Bihar and the Nineteenth-Century Tenancy Debate.' Modern Asian Studies, 22 (2). pp. 319-354.

Robb, Peter (1987) 'New Directions in South Asian History.' South Asia Research, 7 (2). pp. 123-142.

Robb, Peter (1987) 'Some Aspects of British Policy towards Indian Nationalism, 1885-1920.' In: Simmons, Colin and Shepperdson, Mike, (eds.), The Indian National Congress and the Political Economy of India, 1885-1985. Aldershot: Avebury, pp. 61-97.

Robb, Peter (1986) 'The Challenge of Gau Mata: British Policy and Religious Change in India, 1885-1920.' Modern Asian Studies, 20 (2). pp. 283-319.

Robb, Peter (1983) 'The External Dimension in Rural South Asia.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Rural South Asia: Linkages, Change and Development. London: Curzon Press, pp. 1-22.

Robb, Peter (1983) 'Land and Society. The British “Transformation” in India.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Rural India. Land, Power and Society under British Rule. London: Curzon Press, pp. 1-22.

Robb, Peter, ed. (1983) Rural India. Land, Power and Society under British Rule. London: Curzon Press. (Collected papers on South Asia, 6)

Robb, Peter, ed. (1983) Rural South Asia: Linkages, Change and Development. London: Curzon Press.

Robb, Peter (1983) 'State, Peasant and Moneylender in late Nineteenth-Century Bihar: Some Colonial Inputs.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Rural India. Land, Power and Society under British Rule. London: Curzon Press, pp. 106-148.

Robb, Peter (1981) 'British Rule and Indian "Improvement".' The Economic History Review, 34 (4). pp. 507-523.

Robb, Peter (1979) 'The Bureaucrat as Reformer: Two Indian Civil Servants and the Constitution of 1919.' In: Robb, Peter and Taylor, David, (eds.), Rule, Protest, Identity. Aspects of Modern South Asia. London: Curzon Press, pp. 49-82.

Robb, Peter (1979) 'Hierarchy and Resources: Peasant Stratification in Late Nineteenth-Century Bihar.' Modern Asian Studies, 13 (1). pp. 97-126.

Robb, Peter and Taylor, David, eds. (1979) Rule, Protest, Identity. Aspects of Modern South Asia. London: Curzon Press.

Robb, Peter (1977) 'Officials and Non-Officials as Leaders in Popular Agitations: Shahabad 1917 and Other “Conspiracies”.' In: Pandey, B. N., (ed.), Leadership in South Asia. Vikas: New Delhi, pp. 179-210.

Robb, Peter (1976) 'The British Cabinet and Indian Reform, 1917-1919.' Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 4 (3). pp. 318-384.

Robb, Peter (1976) 'The Government of India and Annie Besant.' Modern Asian Studies, 10 (1). pp. 107-130.

Robb, Peter (1976) The Government of India and Reform: Policies towards Politics and the Constitution, 1916-1921. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (London oriental series, v. 32)