“sanjay subrahmanyam”

Vasco da Gama (?1469 1524) is well known as one of a generation of discoverers, along with Magellan, Cabral, and Columbus. Yet little is known about his life, or about the context within which he discovered the all-sea route to India in 1497 99. This book, based on a mass of published and unpublis... More

In The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India 1500 1650 Sanjay Subrahmanyam explores the relationship between long-distance trade and the economic and political structure of southern India in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He questions the more traditional views that external ... More

This volume reflects on two and a half centuries of Mughal-European relations, beginning with the early sixteenth centruy and is based on extensive research into Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, and Persian materials of the period. It uses the idea of contained conflict to reject both the view of... More

Penumbral Visions examines the politics of South India during the transition from Vijayanagara to colonial rule. Through a series of case studies, it argues for the inadequacy of standard models of conquest and instead depicts a flexible set of polities that are gradually undermined over the course ... More

This volume looks at a range of sources in various archived to reconstruct a history of South Asia in a wider Eurasian context, thus the use of the term connected history.... More

Sinners and Saints is a collective work based on international collaboration between Indian, American, French and Portuguese scholars. It reflects emerging trends in the study of Euro-Asian interaction in the Age of Discoveries', and has a focus on India... More

Originally planned as a festschrift for Dharma Kumar, this collection of outstanding essays has recently appeared as a special issue of IESHR. The essays represent a diversity of views and methods, all of which are brought to bear on issues concerning various aspects of the economy, society and cult... More

In The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India 1500-1650 Sanjay Subrahmanyam explores the relationship between long-distance trade and the economic and political structure of southern India in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He questions the more traditional views that external ... More

This omnibus of three classic studies provides a basic grounding for scholars of India's maritime history. In an introduction written especially for this edition Sanjay Subrahmanyam locates these classics in the extant literature in the area. He argues that these works, the older being a quarter of ... More