Maritime History, Urban History of Medieval India, Indian Ocean Studies, Religion and Society of South Asia, History of Trade |
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Awards & Honours |
1) Fellowship from Instituto Camões, Lisbon (1991-2) for Research in Portugal
2) Fellowship from DAAD, Bonn, Germany (1996-98) for Research at Heidelberg University
3) John Arancherry Award of 2004 for the book Jornada of D.Alexis Menezes: An Account of he Sixteenth Century Malabar, Kochi, 2003 |
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International Collaboration/Consultancy |
1) Part of the international research project titled "Goa Inquisition - Its norms and procedures of Justice: A Reader of Primary Sources"(under the larger research frame of "History, Memory and Society") with Prof. Teotonio R. de Souza (Universidade de Lusofona, Lisbon) as the chief Research Coordinator, and Prof. Anthony Disney of Melbourne, Dr. Paulo Aranha, European University Institute of Florence, Prof. Fernanda Camargo Moro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Pius Malekandathil(JNU) as members of the research team
2) Member of the international research project titled "Cosmopolis: The Roots and Routes of Asian Port-cities" and carried out under the co-ordination of Prof. Jos Gommans(Leiden University, the Netherlands) with a view to exploring the collective memory of Kochi through archives and heritage. The other members of the Research team are Professor Charles Jeurgens (Leiden University), Dr. Lennart Bes (National Archives The Hague), Dr. Bauke van der Pol (Anthropologist, Leiden), Dr.Pius Malekandathil (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Dr Anjana Singh (Mumbay University). |
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Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5) |
1) "Economic Processes, Ruralization and Ethnic Mutation: A Study on the Changing Meanings of Lusitanian Space in
India, 1780-1840" in Itinerario(Leiden), vol.xxx, issue 2, 2011, pp.45-62.
2) Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500-1663 (A volume in the South Asian Study Series of Heidelberg University, Germany), Manohar, New Delhi, 2001
3) Portuguese, the Indian Ocean and European Bridgeheads, co-edited with Jamal Mohammad, Funda??o Oriente, Lisbon, 2001
4) Jornada of Dom Alexis de Menezes: A Portuguese Account of the Sixteenth Century Malabar, LRC Publishers, Kochi, 2003
5) Maritime India: Trade. Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean, Primus, New Delhi, 2010 |
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Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3) |
1) “ Portuguese and the Changing Meanings of Oceanic Circulations between Coastal Western India and the African Markets, 1500-1800”, in Journal of Indian Ocean Studies, vol.18, No.2, August 2010, pp.206-223
2) “Spatialization and Social Engineering: Role of the Cities of Cochin and Goa in Shaping the Estado da India, 1500-1663’ in João Paulo Oliveira e Costa and Vitor Luis Gaspar Rodrigues(ed.), O Estado da India e os Desafios Europeus: Actas do XII Seminario Internacional de Historia Indo-Portuguesa, Lisboa, 2010, pp.301-328
3) “City in Space and Metaphor: A Study on the Port-city of Goa,1510-1700”,in Studies in History, vol.25,1,2010,pp.3-38 |
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