Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Oct 14, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Sanjay Subrahmanyam |Radhika Seshan |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy

The “Green Sea”, one of the terms used by Arabic speakers for the Arabian Sea, was linked to the wider world of commerce from ancient times with the earliest recorded contacts dating back to the Roman Empire. But from the 15th century, contacts increased and diversified, to include, as Sanjay Subrahmanyam has pointed out, the slave trade and movements of merchants and migrants from different parts of the Indian Ocean World and, later, the Europeans.

Jul 2, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Sanjay Subrahmanyam

The last two decades have seen a marked uptick in projects of Indian—or more broadly, South Asian—intellectual history, often using a biographical lens. While stimulating in some ways, these writings have also been surprisingly narrow in their ambitions. A significant landmark was Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (2011), by the late Cambridge historian C. A. Bayly.

May 11, 2024 | scroll.in | Sanjay Subrahmanyam

As a schoolboy years ago in Delhi, I remember being asked to memorise and recite the 19th-century poem by Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”. Based on a medieval folktale, it recounts a story that allegedly took place in a small town in Germany located “by famous Hanover city”. The town was overrun by a plague of aggressive rats that the residents simply could not deal with.

May 18, 2023 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Sanjay Subrahmanyam

‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot’: On the Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700Autores: Sanjay SubrahmanyamLocalización: Ler história, ISSN-e 2183-7791, ISSN 0870-6182, Nº. 79, 2021, págs.

May 17, 2023 | elsaltodiario.com | Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Ranajit Guha, fallecido recientemente en su residencia de Viena, donde pasó las últimas décadas de su vida, fue sin duda uno de los intelectuales más influyentes de la izquierda india durante el siglo XX, cuya sombra se proyectó mucho más allá de los confines del subcontinente.