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.
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.