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Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Born

in New Delhi, India

May 21, 1961

Genre

History, Science

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He taught Delhi School of Economics, then EHESS (Paris), then Oxford, before becoming Holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA which he joined in 2004.
In 2013, he became Holder of Early Modern Global History Chair at Collège de France.

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Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s books

Average rating: 3.81 · 469 ratings · 74 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History 3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1992 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama 3.90 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World 3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Connected History: Essays and Arguments 3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Is Indian Civilization a Myth?: Fictions and Histories 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The VOC was interested in Sri Lanka because of its cinnamon production and strategic location, since control of Sri Lanka implied an improved ability to check navigation between the western Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. In”
― Sanjay Subrahmanyam, The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History

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“It is an uncomfortable fact that the sources on which historical writings are based do not always confirm the historian in his or her prejudices. And prejudices surely abound in writings on the Portuguese in Asia, both in the histories written by nationalistic Portuguese historians and others, whether Asians, Africans, or Anglo-Saxons. Some of these views can be summarily dismissed, based as they are on either an uncritical acceptance of the “universal mission” of the Portuguese in the pursuance of transcendent aims and values, or alternatively of an anachronistic tracing back of modern international tensions to the sixteenth century. But”
― Sanjay Subrahmanyam, The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History

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“The term casado then, even when applied to Asian inhabitants of the Estado, obviously preserved a sense in which it indicated a claim to bourgeois status, and in this manner was also a precursor to the category of burgher that the Dutch were to employ in Sri Lanka.”
― Sanjay Subrahmanyam, The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History

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