Sujit Sivasundaram
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 346522 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sujit Sivasundaram |
| PRENOMES | Sujit |
| SOBRENOME | Sivasundaram |
| ASSINATURA | SIVASUNDARAM S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8767-9666 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Afterword
Breaking the sea and digging the earth
A city must stand on stable ground for it to be a place of residence, sociability and peace. If so, the following is an exploration of how a city came to be in a wetland, with marshy ground, with an overflowing river, with stormy seas and with lowland liable to flooding. A wetland, the key ecology in what follows, was not easily urbanized. Indeed, in the late modern moment, taken in what follows simply as a shorthand to refer to the later ninetee…
Thoughts on Joshua Ehrlich’s The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP, 2023)
The Tracks of Michael Pearson’s Ship
Migrant Ecologies
Historical Vistas on Sri Lanka's 2022 People's Uprising
Written in close proximity to Sri Lanka's 2022 people's uprising, this is a conversation between two historians, one from the University of Colombo and the other from the University of Cambridge, about the long roots of violence in Sri Lankan society. It is an account of the lived experience of violence on 9 May 2022, which was a defining event of the uprising. What occurred on this date is cast here within various alternative historical itinerar…
Development of a pathway for children disclosing potential for self‐harm
1. The light of the sun: stimulus for mission 2. The growth of the mind: nature and mission education 3. The seed of the soul: conversion illustrated by nature 4. The body that will bloom: death and its theology of nature 5. The plants of the land: building settlements of civilisation 6. The idol of weeds: the exchange and display of nature.
Forum Global Dis
with the idea of dis:connectivity to provide fresh perspective on current phenomena of globalization.Tom Menger (Munich) traces the origins of Europe's current energy crisis back to a fossil fuel shift that occurred in the early 20th century.He shows that the decline of coal as the principal carrier of fossil energy had a direct impact on Europe's position in an increasingly global network of energy distribution, and this led to the emergence of …
D ebjani B hattacharyya . Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta
Water is fundamental to human life and existence. It is appropriate, then, that its South Asian history has seen a recent splash, as exemplified with the addition of three excellent books: Debjani Bhattacharyya’s Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta, Sudipta Sen’s Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River, and Sunil Amrith’s Unruly Waters. Given the centrality of water to the human past, it should come as no surprise that this isn’t a new theme…
Materialities in the Making of World Histories
With the aim of interrogating material culture in the origins of the globalized discipline of history, this chapter considers some objects of historical narration in the wider world. The focus is on how these material objects engaged with the physicality of print. There were entanglements and layerings of materiality, across the problematic and traditional divides of oral and textual, ephemeral and durable, localized and global. Two different con…
Making the Globe
Starting from Madras, travelling across the Bay of Bengal, to the coast of Sumatra and then to Singapore, this paper provides a cultural history of nineteenth-century knowledge-making as an enterprise in making and breaking three concepts: globe, empire and self. It does so by working outwards from early-nineteenth century pendulum-length experiments to determine the curvature of the Earth. It argues that moving across concepts and scales was vit…
Waves Across the South
Monarchs, Travellers and Empire in the Pacific's Age of Revolutions
The Pacific has often been invisible in global histories written in the UK. Yet it has consistently been a site for contemplating the past and the future, even among Britons cast on its shores. In this lecture, I reconsider a critical moment of globalisation and empire, the ‘age of revolutions’ at the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the nineteenth century, by journeying with European voyagers to the Pacific Ocean. The lecture will …
The Human, The Animal and the Prehistory of Covid-19
In Asia, pangolins have generated a rich set of indigenous oral traditions. These contrast with the often confused, or failed, colonial and Western scientific practices of classifying, domesticating and collecting the pangolin. More recently this long-standing encounter between the pangolin and human has shifted into exponential killing. The pangolin has become the mammal which is most trafficked by humans. This trade has been a global one, a fac…
Epilogue
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Oceanic Histories
Oceanic HistoriesA Roundtable Renaud Morieux, Clare Anderson, Jonathan Lamb, David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram Oceanic Histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Oceanic Histories opens a new series for Cambridge University Press. By bringing world history, maritime history and environmental history into one conversation, it presents the very lates…
Oceanic Histories
Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the histories and the historiographies of the various o…
Oceanic Histories
The Indian Ocean
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Towards a Critical History of Connection
Connections, circuits, webs, and networks: these are concepts that are overused in today's world histories. Working from a commitment to reflexive historicization, this paper points to one moment in the consolidation of these terms: the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century visual politics of 'new imperialism.' Utilizing photographs, engravings, postcards, letters, and colonial documents, the paper argues that connection was mesmerizing an…
Sacred modernity
Sacred modernity: nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood." Social & Cultural Geography, 17(7), pp. 983–984
Imperial Transgressions
By reconsidering how race operates at the intersection of the human-animal divide, this essay looks back on the paths that have been opened by the special section "Nonhuman Empires." Rather than interrogating the literary entanglement of animality and race, the argument considers the disciplinary and conceptual genealogies that stretch over these two alternative modes of differentiation. Starting with phrenology and comparative anatomy and moving…
Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration in the Advent of British Rule to Sri Lanka
Sciences and the Global
This essay explores the mechanics of researching and writing globally oriented histories of science. Thinking about how to approach sources is vital, especially given how often historians of science use the excuse of a lack of sources for constraining their projects to European topics. The first section suggests a method of cross-contextualization, where scarce and unorthodox sources are read within and alongside more plentiful and traditional on…
Buddhist Kingship, British Archaeology and Historical Narratives in Sri Lanka c.1750 1850
Journal Article Buddhist Kingship, British Archaeology and Historical Narratives in Sri Lanka c.1750–1850 Get access Sujit Sivasundaram Sujit Sivasundaram Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 197, Issue 1, November 2007, Pages 111–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm040 Published: 01 November 2007
Sciences and the Global
This essay explores the mechanics of researching and writing globally oriented histories of science. Thinking about how to approach sources is vital, especially given how often historians of science use the excuse of a lack of sources for constraining their projects to European topics. The first section suggests a method of cross-contextualization, where scarce and unorthodox sources are read within and alongside more plentiful and traditional on…
Trading Knowledge
During the East India Company's rule of India, Britons observed the pervasiveness of elephants in local modes of warfare, hunting, trade, and religious symbolism. The colonizers appropriated this knowledge about elephants: for instance, in the taking-over of Mughal trade routes or Tipu Sultan's stables. What Indians knew about the elephant also fed into a metropolitan culture of anthropomorphism, exemplified in the celebrated shooting of the elep…
Tales of the Land
British expansion in Sri Lanka was halted by the mountains in the centre of the island. The kings of Kandy guarded knowledge about topography and this led in part to the British army's defeat of 1803. Within the Kandyan kingdom, boundary books and verses provide evidence of a vibrant tradition of oral knowledge about the land, linked with piety and history. When the British took control of the interior in 1815 Governor Barnes urged the necessity …
Imperial Transgressions
By reconsidering how race operates at the intersection of the human-animal divide, this essay looks back on the paths that have been opened by the special section "Nonhuman Empires." Rather than interrogating the literary entanglement of animality and race, the argument considers the disciplinary and conceptual genealogies that stretch over these two alternative modes of differentiation. Starting with phrenology and comparative anatomy and moving…
Towards a Critical History of Connection
Connections, circuits, webs, and networks: these are concepts that are overused in today's world histories. Working from a commitment to reflexive historicization, this paper points to one moment in the consolidation of these terms: the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century visual politics of 'new imperialism.' Utilizing photographs, engravings, postcards, letters, and colonial documents, the paper argues that connection was mesmerizing an…
A Christian Benares’
By using the case of the Baptist missionaries called the ‘Serampore Trio’—Rev. William Carey, Rev. William Ward and Rev. Joshua Marshman—this article urges that science and Christianity were intimately related in early nineteenth-century north India. The Serampore Baptists practised a brand of Christian and constructive orientalism, devoting themselves to the recovery of Sanskrit science and the introduction of European science into India. Carey …
Buddhist Kingship, British Archaeology and Historical Narratives in Sri Lanka c.1750 1850
Journal Article Buddhist Kingship, British Archaeology and Historical Narratives in Sri Lanka c.1750–1850 Get access Sujit Sivasundaram Sujit Sivasundaram Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 197, Issue 1, November 2007, Pages 111–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm040 Published: 01 November 2007
The Human, The Animal and the Prehistory of Covid-19
In Asia, pangolins have generated a rich set of indigenous oral traditions. These contrast with the often confused, or failed, colonial and Western scientific practices of classifying, domesticating and collecting the pangolin. More recently this long-standing encounter between the pangolin and human has shifted into exponential killing. The pangolin has become the mammal which is most trafficked by humans. This trade has been a global one, a fac…
Natural History Spiritualized
L'article examine les campagnes d'evangelisation menees dans les iles du Pacifique par des missionnaires britanniques, notamment celles organisees sous le patronage de Sir Joseph Banks
Oceanic Histories
Oceanic HistoriesA Roundtable Renaud Morieux, Clare Anderson, Jonathan Lamb, David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram Oceanic Histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Oceanic Histories opens a new series for Cambridge University Press. By bringing world history, maritime history and environmental history into one conversation, it presents the very lates…
Natural History Spiritualized
L'article examine les campagnes d'evangelisation menees dans les iles du Pacifique par des missionnaires britanniques, notamment celles organisees sous le patronage de Sir Joseph Banks
Captain Cook
Essays reassess Cook's standing as a leading figure in eighteenth-century history, exploration and the advancement of science. In the more than two hundred years since his death, Cook's reputation has been much discussed, opinion ranging from celebration of his achievement to more subjective assessments of the long-term implications of his voyages in those countries of the Pacific which he visited. The thirteen essays in this book, grouped in fou…
Captain Cook
Towards a New History of Science and Religion
Trading Knowledge
During the East India Company's rule of India, Britons observed the pervasiveness of elephants in local modes of warfare, hunting, trade, and religious symbolism. The colonizers appropriated this knowledge about elephants: for instance, in the taking-over of Mughal trade routes or Tipu Sultan's stables. What Indians knew about the elephant also fed into a metropolitan culture of anthropomorphism, exemplified in the celebrated shooting of the elep…
Buddhist Kingship, British Archaeology and Historical Narratives in Sri Lanka c.1750 1850
Journal Article Buddhist Kingship, British Archaeology and Historical Narratives in Sri Lanka c.1750–1850 Get access Sujit Sivasundaram Sujit Sivasundaram Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 197, Issue 1, November 2007, Pages 111–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm040 Published: 01 November 2007
A Christian Benares’
By using the case of the Baptist missionaries called the ‘Serampore Trio’—Rev. William Carey, Rev. William Ward and Rev. Joshua Marshman—this article urges that science and Christianity were intimately related in early nineteenth-century north India. The Serampore Baptists practised a brand of Christian and constructive orientalism, devoting themselves to the recovery of Sanskrit science and the introduction of European science into India. Carey …
Tales of the Land
British expansion in Sri Lanka was halted by the mountains in the centre of the island. The kings of Kandy guarded knowledge about topography and this led in part to the British army's defeat of 1803. Within the Kandyan kingdom, boundary books and verses provide evidence of a vibrant tradition of oral knowledge about the land, linked with piety and history. When the British took control of the interior in 1815 Governor Barnes urged the necessity …
Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration in the Advent of British Rule to Sri Lanka
Sciences and the Global
This essay explores the mechanics of researching and writing globally oriented histories of science. Thinking about how to approach sources is vital, especially given how often historians of science use the excuse of a lack of sources for constraining their projects to European topics. The first section suggests a method of cross-contextualization, where scarce and unorthodox sources are read within and alongside more plentiful and traditional on…
Imperial Transgressions
By reconsidering how race operates at the intersection of the human-animal divide, this essay looks back on the paths that have been opened by the special section "Nonhuman Empires." Rather than interrogating the literary entanglement of animality and race, the argument considers the disciplinary and conceptual genealogies that stretch over these two alternative modes of differentiation. Starting with phrenology and comparative anatomy and moving…
Sacred modernity
Sacred modernity: nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood." Social & Cultural Geography, 17(7), pp. 983–984
Oceanic Histories
Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the histories and the historiographies of the various o…
Oceanic Histories
The Indian Ocean
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Towards a Critical History of Connection
Connections, circuits, webs, and networks: these are concepts that are overused in today's world histories. Working from a commitment to reflexive historicization, this paper points to one moment in the consolidation of these terms: the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century visual politics of 'new imperialism.' Utilizing photographs, engravings, postcards, letters, and colonial documents, the paper argues that connection was mesmerizing an…
Epilogue
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Oceanic Histories
Oceanic HistoriesA Roundtable Renaud Morieux, Clare Anderson, Jonathan Lamb, David Armitage, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram Oceanic Histories Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Oceanic Histories opens a new series for Cambridge University Press. By bringing world history, maritime history and environmental history into one conversation, it presents the very lates…
Materialities in the Making of World Histories
With the aim of interrogating material culture in the origins of the globalized discipline of history, this chapter considers some objects of historical narration in the wider world. The focus is on how these material objects engaged with the physicality of print. There were entanglements and layerings of materiality, across the problematic and traditional divides of oral and textual, ephemeral and durable, localized and global. Two different con…
Making the Globe
Starting from Madras, travelling across the Bay of Bengal, to the coast of Sumatra and then to Singapore, this paper provides a cultural history of nineteenth-century knowledge-making as an enterprise in making and breaking three concepts: globe, empire and self. It does so by working outwards from early-nineteenth century pendulum-length experiments to determine the curvature of the Earth. It argues that moving across concepts and scales was vit…
Waves Across the South
Monarchs, Travellers and Empire in the Pacific's Age of Revolutions
The Pacific has often been invisible in global histories written in the UK. Yet it has consistently been a site for contemplating the past and the future, even among Britons cast on its shores. In this lecture, I reconsider a critical moment of globalisation and empire, the ‘age of revolutions’ at the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the nineteenth century, by journeying with European voyagers to the Pacific Ocean. The lecture will …
The Human, The Animal and the Prehistory of Covid-19
In Asia, pangolins have generated a rich set of indigenous oral traditions. These contrast with the often confused, or failed, colonial and Western scientific practices of classifying, domesticating and collecting the pangolin. More recently this long-standing encounter between the pangolin and human has shifted into exponential killing. The pangolin has become the mammal which is most trafficked by humans. This trade has been a global one, a fac…
D ebjani B hattacharyya . Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta
Water is fundamental to human life and existence. It is appropriate, then, that its South Asian history has seen a recent splash, as exemplified with the addition of three excellent books: Debjani Bhattacharyya’s Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta, Sudipta Sen’s Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River, and Sunil Amrith’s Unruly Waters. Given the centrality of water to the human past, it should come as no surprise that this isn’t a new theme…
Development of a pathway for children disclosing potential for self‐harm
1. The light of the sun: stimulus for mission 2. The growth of the mind: nature and mission education 3. The seed of the soul: conversion illustrated by nature 4. The body that will bloom: death and its theology of nature 5. The plants of the land: building settlements of civilisation 6. The idol of weeds: the exchange and display of nature.
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