Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA, where he teaches courses on medieval and early modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history; the history of European expansion, the comparative history of early modern empires, and world history. Previous to his position at UCLA, he taught at the Delhi School of Economics and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.  In 2002, Subrahmanyam was appointed as the first holder of the newly created Chair in Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford, a position he held for two years before moving to his present chair. Subrahmanyam also served as founding Director of UCLA's Center for India and South Asia.   Subrahmanyam is Joint Managing Editor of the Indian Economic and Social History Review, besides serving on the boards of a number of other journals in the US, UK, France, Portugal, and elsewhere. His publications include The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India 1500-1650; The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama; Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World; and Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India.