Sanjay Subrahmanyam - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

• (Ed.) Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

• Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1700, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990 (Revised Portuguese translation: Comércio e Conflito: A Presença Portuguesa no Golfo de Bengala, 1500-1700, Lisbon: Edições 70, 1994).

• (with V. Narayana Rao and David Shulman), Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka-period Tamil Nadu, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.

• The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History, London and New York: Longman, 1993 (Portuguese translation: O Império Asiático Português, 1500-1700: Uma História Política e Económica, DIFEL Editora, Lisbon, 1996); Chinese translation Putaoya diguo zai yazhou, 1500-1700: Zhengzhi he jingji shi (Macau: Comissão Territorial de Macau para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1997); French translation, L’Empire portugais d’Asie, 1500-1700: Histoire économique et politique (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1999). Recipient of the Prémio D. João de Castro, Portugal, 1994.

• (Ed.) Money and the Market in India, 1100-1700, Delhi: Oxford University Press, (Series: Themes in Indian History), 1994.

• (Ed.) Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World (Series: An Expanding World, Vol. 8), Aldershot: Variorum Books, 1996.

• (Ed. with Kaushik Basu) Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India’s Secular Identity, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1996.

• (Ed. with Burton Stein) Institutions and Economic Change in South Asia, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

• The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 (Spanish translation, Vasco de Gama, Barcelona: Crítica, 1998; Portuguese translation, A Carreira e a Lenda de Vasco da Gama, Lisbon: CNCDP, 1998).

• (Ed. with Muzaffar Alam) The Mughal State, 1526-1750, Delhi: Oxford University Press (Series: Themes in Indian History), 1998.

• (Ed.) Sinners and Saints: The Successors of Vasco da Gama, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

• Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India, Delhi/Ann Arbor: Oxford University Press/University of Michigan Press, 2001.

• (with Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman) Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, 1600-1800, New Delhi/New York, Permanent Black/Other Books, 2001/2003 (French translation, Textures du temps: Ecrire l’histoire en Inde, Paris: Le Seuil, 2004). (A review symposium on this book appears in History and Theory, 46 (October 2007).)

• (ed. with Claude Markovits and Jacques Pouchepadass)Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003.

• (ed.) Land, Politics and Trade in South Asia, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• (ed. with Kenneth McPherson) From Biography to History: Essays in the History of Portuguese Asia (1500-1800), New Delhi: TransBooks, 2006.

• (with Muzaffar Alam) Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.