She recently organised a panel at the World Economic History Congress in Japan. In recent years, she has also been working on travel accounts and the constructions of the East therein. Her area of specialisation is medieval Indian history, with a focus on economic history, especially maritime and urban history. Radhika Seshan is Associate Professor at the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India.
The book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of history and archaeology, cultural studies and literature. The narratives cover several journeys drawn from archaeology, texts and cultural imagination: trade routes, marts, fairs, forts, religious pilgrimages, inscriptions, calligraphy and coinages spanning diverse regions, including India–Tibet–British forays, India–Malay intersections, corporate enterprise in the Indian Ocean, impacts of slave trade in Southeast Asia shaped by the Dutch East India company, movements and migrations around IndoIranian borderlands and those in western and southern India. It also studies whether these intersections remain in later and present times, and their larger impact on our understanding of history. The volume analyses these intersections of memory and narrative, of people and places and the routes that took people to these places, using a variety of sources.
It examines how regions were connected by people, families, trade and politics as well as how they were maintained and remembered. This book traces connections in pre-modern Asia by looking at different worlds across geography, history and society.
NARRATIVES, ROUTES AND INTERSECTIONS IN PRE-MODERN ASIA George (Madras) in the seventeenth century Citation preview third century BCE–third century CE)Ĥ Minor trade between India and Tibet and new routes after the British interventionĥ Slavery and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in seventeenth-century island Southeast AsiaĦ Goa at the intersection of world trade routes in the pre-modern age: strangers at home and at home with strangersħ The Indian fort as a site of intersectionsĨ English corporate enterprise and private trade in the Indian Ocean: a common meeting groundĩ Inscriptions and calligraphy on the Mughal and Safavid coinages: a comparative studyġ0 Looking around the institution of tīrtha-yātrā in the context of Maratha expansionġ1 Fairs and pilgrimages as points of intersections: the case of medieval western Maharashtraġ2 Continuing routes, changed intersections: a study of Fort St. Introduction: intersections: narratives, routes and marts in the pre-modern Asian worldġ Imagination, memory and history: narrating India-Malay intersections in the early modern periodģ Movements and migrations around the porous Indo-Iranian borderlands: the view from archaeology and texts (c.
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