Radhika Seshan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1374974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radhika Seshan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radhika |
| FAMILY NAME | Seshan |
| SIGNATURE | SESHAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Savitribai Phule Pune University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5388-6939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-modern World
Unwanted Neighbours
The Sovereign and the Pirate
Indian Ocean Histories
Michael Naylor Pearson's work falls under the genre of global or world history and has tremendous impact on the study of the Indian Ocean world. He brought together different disciplines, and emphasized on the holistic view of the worlds of water. This book will serve as a guide and as a reader for Indian Ocean studies. It brings together scholars from different disciplines across the world (all of whom have been influenced by Michael Pearson's w…
Merchants and Marts
India’s flourishing trade and production economy in the late medieval times has been well studied, particularly from the point of view of the variety of goods that were exported across the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. In this context, the ports, particularly those of Gujarat and the Coromandel Coast, have received considerable attention. This chapter seeks to examine the nature of Gujarat’s connections to the hinterland in the sixteenth and…
World History and the World History of Science
The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1200 CE to 1800 CE
This book investigates how the idea of the 'east' emerged in western travel narratives between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Sifting through critical travel narratives -real and imagined -it locates the changing geography as well as the perceptions surrounding India. The author presents how historical stereotypes interacted with a burgeoning demand for travelogues during this period and have fed into the way we think about Asia in general, and…
The Port City of Chaul
This paper focuses on the port of Chaul, on the west coast of India, in the modern-day state of Maharashtra, to study the ways in which the port as urban settlement,and as a town, in both its layout and in its monuments, reflected theorientation towards the twin categories of land and sea, but leaning perhapsmore towards the land. It takes as its starting point Michael Pearson’s conceptof ports as ‘gateways’ and ‘hubs’ and tries to examine the mu…
Introduction
Re-searching Transitions in Indian History
Ports and Littoral Societies
Studying in India in the late 1970s, some of us were introduced to what was then an exciting 'new' branch of history -maritime studies. For many of us, the introduction to this area of research was through Michael Pearson's Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century (1976). This work remains, for many students, a starting point for studies on maritime history, and on what he himself called the 'indige…
Intersections
The article discusses the ways in which, in the seventeenth century, as India drew the attention of more Europeans, both as private traders and as part of larger east India companies, networks of contacts were established. Two ports in particular, Surat and Madras (now Chennai), became points of intersection of Europeans and Asians, through the multi-pronged trade networks that linked these two ports to other ports in the Indian Ocean world, thro…
Narratives, Routes and Intersections in Pre-Modern Asia
Introduction
Representing water
The Maratha State
Maratha power was one of the most important across much of India through much of the eighteenth century. It was the last of the Indian kingdoms to be defeated by the British colonial regime, and even after the defeat of the last ruler, the area ceded by him was treated as a separate administrative unit for almost a decade. A number of labels have been applied to the Maratha state, including marauder, confederacy and more prosaically, just empire,…
The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1200 CE to 1800 CE
This book investigates how the idea of the 'east' emerged in western travel narratives between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Sifting through critical travel narratives -real and imagined -it locates the changing geography as well as the perceptions surrounding India. The author presents how historical stereotypes interacted with a burgeoning demand for travelogues during this period and have fed into the way we think about Asia in general, and…
Introduction
The Maratha State
Maratha power was one of the most important across much of India through much of the eighteenth century. It was the last of the Indian kingdoms to be defeated by the British colonial regime, and even after the defeat of the last ruler, the area ceded by him was treated as a separate administrative unit for almost a decade. A number of labels have been applied to the Maratha state, including marauder, confederacy and more prosaically, just empire,…
Introduction
Representing water
Narratives, Routes and Intersections in Pre-Modern Asia
Ports and Littoral Societies
Studying in India in the late 1970s, some of us were introduced to what was then an exciting 'new' branch of history -maritime studies. For many of us, the introduction to this area of research was through Michael Pearson's Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century (1976). This work remains, for many students, a starting point for studies on maritime history, and on what he himself called the 'indige…
Intersections
The article discusses the ways in which, in the seventeenth century, as India drew the attention of more Europeans, both as private traders and as part of larger east India companies, networks of contacts were established. Two ports in particular, Surat and Madras (now Chennai), became points of intersection of Europeans and Asians, through the multi-pronged trade networks that linked these two ports to other ports in the Indian Ocean world, thro…
Introduction
Re-searching Transitions in Indian History
Merchants and Marts
India’s flourishing trade and production economy in the late medieval times has been well studied, particularly from the point of view of the variety of goods that were exported across the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. In this context, the ports, particularly those of Gujarat and the Coromandel Coast, have received considerable attention. This chapter seeks to examine the nature of Gujarat’s connections to the hinterland in the sixteenth and…
World History and the World History of Science
The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1200 CE to 1800 CE
This book investigates how the idea of the 'east' emerged in western travel narratives between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Sifting through critical travel narratives -real and imagined -it locates the changing geography as well as the perceptions surrounding India. The author presents how historical stereotypes interacted with a burgeoning demand for travelogues during this period and have fed into the way we think about Asia in general, and…
The Port City of Chaul
This paper focuses on the port of Chaul, on the west coast of India, in the modern-day state of Maharashtra, to study the ways in which the port as urban settlement,and as a town, in both its layout and in its monuments, reflected theorientation towards the twin categories of land and sea, but leaning perhapsmore towards the land. It takes as its starting point Michael Pearson’s conceptof ports as ‘gateways’ and ‘hubs’ and tries to examine the mu…
Unwanted Neighbours
The Sovereign and the Pirate
Indian Ocean Histories
Michael Naylor Pearson's work falls under the genre of global or world history and has tremendous impact on the study of the Indian Ocean world. He brought together different disciplines, and emphasized on the holistic view of the worlds of water. This book will serve as a guide and as a reader for Indian Ocean studies. It brings together scholars from different disciplines across the world (all of whom have been influenced by Michael Pearson's w…
Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-modern World
History (12 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · History (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works)