India, The Portuguese and Maritime Interactions: Vol. I: Science, Economy and Urbanity
EDITOR: Pius Malekandathil, Lotika Varadarajan and Amar Farooqui
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- EDITOR: Pius Malekandathil, Lotika Varadarajan and Amar Farooqui
- HB ISBN: 978-93-5290-659-8
- Year: 2019
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The two-volume India, the Portuguese and Maritime Interactions is the outcome of the 14th International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History held at New Delhi. These essays look at the multilayered nature of Indo-Portuguese interactions and address the complexities of the very varied subsystems that got woven around the Indian Ocean over a period of more than five centuries.
The first volume focuses on Indo-Portuguese interactions in terms of circulation of medical knowledge and aspects of health care; the nature of scientific and technological interactions; dynamics of trade and political economy; and meanings of urbanity. Networks of information, indigenization of techniques, land-centric economic processes, calendar-reckoning traditions, and complexities of urban milieu are analysed with a richly textured and complex set of arguments so that our understanding of the ‘early modern history of India’ is recast, and the web of interconnectedness within which India redefined itself against the background of Portuguese interactions is highlighted. Students and researchers of medieval and early modern, modern and contemporary Indian history will find the volume extremely useful.
Pius Malekandathil is Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published The Mughals, the Portuguese and the Indian Ocean: Changing Imageries of Maritime India (2013); Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean (2010); and Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India (2001). He has also edited 14 books including Jornada of Dom Alexis Menezes: A Portuguese Account of the Sixteenth Century Malabar (2003). His research interest lies in Maritime History, Urban History of Medieval India, Indian Ocean Studies, Religion and Society of South Asia, and History of Trade.
Lotika Varadarajan had been researching in the areas of Indian textiles and Indian seafaring, and had published 78 articles and 10 books. Some of her eminent books are Of Fibre and Loom: The Indian Tradition (with Krishna Amin-Patel, 2008); Sewn Boats of Lakshadweep (1998); and the edited volume Journey in Science, Technology and Culture: Indo-Portuguese Experiences (2005).
Amar Farooqui is Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi. His publications include Zafar and the Raj: Anglo–Mughal Delhi (2013); Sindias and the Raj: Princely Gwalior, c.1800-1850 (2011); and Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay (2006). He has also been a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi.