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CURRICULUM VITAE
Name : KHALID ABU SALEH MOHAMMAD ISHRAT ALAM
Father’s Name : M. Rafique Alam
Date of Birth : August 05, 1960
Nationality : Indian
Present Position : Professor of History
Address for
Correspondence : Professor, Centre of Advanced Study
Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh-202001
Present Residential
Address : IRIS, House No-212, Street No.4, Silver Oak Avenue,
Dohorra, Aligarh-202 001 (UP).
Permanent Address : Vill. Ganramani, P.O. Gangi Hat,
Distt. Kishanganj, Bihar
Fellowships Received:
1. Netherlands Government Reciprocal Fellowship, 21 April 1986-31 December
1987.
2. Qualified in UGC National Education Test (N.E.T.- J.R.F.), August 1984.
3. U.G.C. Junior Research Fellowship, April 1981 to July 1984.
Positions and Honours:
(a) Member, School Board of School of Social Sciences, University of
Hyderabad, 2018.
(b) Appointed Member, Research Council, History of Science, Indian National
Science Academy, New Delhi, 2018-2021.
(c) Invited as an expert to attend a meeting of Experts for Syllabus
Reconstruction Committee, Teaching and Learning Centre, under
PMMMNMTT Scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development,
organised by the Department of History, Savitribai Phule, Pune University,
Pune, 9-10 March, 2018.
(d) Participated as an expert in the Development of World Class Curriculum in
History, Department of History, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli-24,
26-02-2016.
(e) Ex.-Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research (Ministry of
Human Resource Development, Govt. of India) 35, Ferozeshah Road, New
Delhi-110001.
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(d) Editorial Board (s):
1. Member, Editorial Board, Studies in People’s History, (Journal), SAGE
Publications, New Delhi.
2. Managing Editor, Indian Historical Review, ISSN0376-9836, published
by SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, on behalf of Indian
Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, since July, 2010.
3. Member, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of History of Science, Indian
National Science Academy, New Delhi, from 2013 (nominated in
August, 2012).
(c) 1. Visiting Professor, University of Calcutta, 27.03.2017 – 30.03.2017.
2. Visiting Fellow Department of History, under UGC-SAP-DSA II
Programme, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 22.03.2015 –
30.03.2015.
(d) Member of National Council(s):
1. Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research, (Ministry of
Human Resource Development, Govt. of India), New Delhi, since 8
October 2008.
2. Member, Research Council / National Commission for History of
Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi since 2009.
Books: (i) Sajal Nag and Ishrat Alam, eds. Blending Nation and Region, Essays
in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha, Primus Books,
ISBN:978-93-886552-73-0, Delhi, 2018.
(ii) Ishrat Alam and Syed Ejaz Hussain, eds. The Varied Facets of
History, Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray, Primus Books,
ISBN:978-93-80607-16-0, Delhi, 2011.
(iii) Ishrat Alam, ‘Textiles, Technology and Trade in Medieval India’,
accepted for publication by Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
(iv) Contributed five chapters* in History of Technology in India, Medieval
Period, ed. Harbans Mukhia, Vol. II, Indian National Science
Academy, ISBN: 978-81-928826-1-1, New Delhi, 2011 (a publication
of Indian National Science Academy).
* 3.5 Textile Technology in Medieval North India
3.6 Sericulture and Silk Technology in Medieval India
3.8 Indigo Production Technology in Medieval India
4.2 Iron and Steel Fabrication Technology in Medieval India
4.3 Diamond Mining and Trade in Medieval Times
(IV) Papers published in edited works:
1. ‘The Dutch Company and Coromandel Merchants during the First Half of the
Seventeenth Century’, in Sajal Nag & Ishrat Alam, eds. Blending Nation and Region,
Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha, Primus Books, ISBN: 978-81-
928826-1-1, Delhi, 2018, pp.89-99.
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2. ‘Punjab Three Hundred Years Ago’, Presidential Address (Medieval Section),
Proceedings of Punjab History Conference, 48th Session, March 4-6, 2016,
Publication Bureau Punjabi University, ISBN: 978-81-302-0439-0, Patiala, 2017, p.
57-67.
3. ‘Agrarian Changes: Problems and Prospects’ in Rajendra Kumar, ed. The Jats, their
Role and Contribution to the Socio-Economic Life and Polity of North and North
West-India, Vol-5, Low Price Publication/DK Publishers Distributors Pvt. Ltd.,
ISBN: 8184541376, Delhi, 2015, pp. xxix-xxxiii.
4. ‘Diseases and Medicines in the Pre-Modern World: Divergent Societies
Assessments’, in Syed Ejaz Hussain and Mohit Saha, eds. India's Indigenous Medical
Systems A Cross- Disciplinary Approach, Delhi, 2015, pp. 12-52.
5. Review of Irfan Habib (with contribution from Najaf Haider, Iqtidar Alam Khan,
Shireen Moosvi, Pushpa Prasad), Economic History of Medieval India 1200-1500, in
the series History of Science, Philosophy and Culture, ed. D.P. Chattopadhyaya,
(Delhi: Longman/Pearson), 2011, published in Irfan Habib, ed. Studies in People's
History, 2 (1), (2015) SAGE Publication, ISBN: 2348-4489, pp.140-141.
6. Review of K.V. Ramesh and M.D. Sampath (eds.) Epigraphia Indica, Vol.CLIII, Part-I,
in Irfan Habib, ed. Studies in People's History, Vol.I (1), 2014, SAGE Publication,
ISBN: 2348-4489, pp.117-120.
7. ‘The Dutch East India Company, Indian Textiles and the Slave Trade in the
Seventeenth Century', in The Evolution of a Nation Pre Colonial to Post Colonial,
Essays in Memory of R.S. Sharma, ed. D. N. Jha, Manohar Publishers and
Distributors, ISBN: 978-93-5098-059-0, Delhi, 2014, pp.313-352.
8. 'Textile Technology in Medieval North India', in History of Technology in India,
Medieval Period, ed. Harbans Mukhia, Vol.II, INSA Publication, ISBN: 978-81-
928826-1-1, New Delhi, 2012, pp.318-340.
9. ‘Sericulture and Silk Technology in Medieval India' , in History of Technology in
India, Medieval Period, ed. Harbans Mukhia, Vol. II, INSA Publication, ISBN: 978-81-
9286-1-1, New Delhi, 2012, pp. 341-354.
10. ‘Iron and Steel Fabrication Technology in Medieval India', in History of Technology
in India, Medieval Period, ed. Harbans Mukhia, Vol. II, INSA Publication, ISBN: 978-
81-928826-1-1, New Delhi, 2012, pp.467-482.
11. ‘Indigo Production Technology in Medieval India', in History of Technology in India,
Medieval Period, ed. Harbans Mukhia, Vol. II, INSA Publication, ISBN: 978-81-
928826-1-1, New Delhi, 2012, pp. 367-380.
12. ‘Diamond Mining and Trade in Medieval Times', in History of Technology in India,
Medieval Period, ed. Harbans Mukhia, Vol.II, INSA Publication, ISBN: 978-81-
928826-1-1, New Delhi, 2012, pp.483-502.
11. ‘Technology and Economic Progress in Medieval India: An Overview’, in Prabhat
Patnaik, ed. Excursus in History, Essays on Some Ideas of Irfan Habib, Tulika
Books/Columbia University Press, ISBN: 9788189487720, Delhi, 2011, pp. 196-
206.
12. ‘Extracting Social History from Documents of Medieval India’, in The Varied Facets
of History, Essays in Honour of Aniruddha Ray, eds., Ishrat Alam and Syed Ejaz
Hussain, Primus Books, ISBN: 978-93-80607-16-0, Delhi, 2011, pp. 59-70.
13. ‘The Dutch East India Company’s Communication Network over land and sea’, in
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Dipankar Sinha and Varnita Bagchi, eds.Webs of History,
Information, Communication & Technology from Early to Post – Colonial India,
Manohar Publishers and Distributors, ISBN:10-
173046131/ISBN:13:9788173046131, New Delhi 2005, pp. 119-130.
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14. ‘Names for India in Ancient Indian Texts and Inscriptions’, in Irfan Habib, ed. India-
-Studies in the History of an Idea, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., Delhi,
2005, pp. 36-44.
15. ‘Dutch Trade at Awadh in the Sixteenth Century’, in A.K. Sinha, ed., Perspectives in
Indian History, Anamika Publishers, ISBN:81-7975-076-0, New Delhi, 2004,
pp.134-150.
16. ‘A popular Rebellion at Broach during the Reign of Aurangzeb: A Dutch Report’, in
A.K. Sinha, ed., Readings in History, Anamika Publishers & Distributors (Pvt.) Ltd.,
ISBN: 10:81-79750361Delhi, 2002, pp. 218-220.
17. ‘Iron Manufactures in Golconda in the 17th Century’, in Tradition and Innovation in
the History of Iron Making, An Indo-European Perspective, eds., Girija Pande and Jan
A. Geijerstam, Pahad, Parikarma, ISBN: 81-86246-19-3, Nainital, 2002, pp. 98-111.
18. ‘Technological Exchanges between India and Iran in Ancient and Medieval Times’,
in Irfan Habib, ed. A Shared Heritage: The Growth of Civilizations in India and Iran,
Tulika, ISBN: 81-85229-73-2(Hb), New Delhi, 2002, pp. 77-98.
19. ‘Cotton Technology in India Down to the 16th Century’, in A. Rahman, ed., India’s
Interaction with China, Central and West Asia, Vol-III (2), Oxford University Press,
ISBN: 13-978-1-0195657890/ISBN: 10:0195657896, Delhi, 2002, pp.445-463.
20. ‘Smallpox, and its Treatment in India - A Premodern History’, in Deepak Kumar,
ed., Disease and Medicine in India, A Historical Overview, Tulika, Columbia
University Press, ISBN: 9789382381051, Delhi, 2001, pp.85-93.
21. ‘Dutch Sources for the History of Bihar in 17h and 18th Centuries’, in Readings in
Indian History (Syed Hasan Askari Centrenary Volume), ed., B.K. Chaudhary, Kashi
Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna, 2001, pp. 373-392.
22. ‘Rented Housing in Mughal India --- The Dutch and English Experience’, in Reason
and Archaeology, ed., K.M. Shrimali, Delhi, 1998, pp. 153-158.
23. ‘A Dutch Memoir of 1603 on Indian Textiles’, in Irfan Habib, ed. Akbar and his
India, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780195646320, Delhi, 1997, pp.294-297.
24. ‘New light on Indigo Production Technology during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries’, in Art and Culture Felicitation Volume in honour of Professor S. Nurul
Hasan, eds., A.J. Qaisar and S.P. Verma, Publication Scheme, ISBN: 81-85263-82-5,
Jaipur, 1993, pp.120-126.
25. ‘Textiles Tools as depicted in Ajanta and Mughal Paintings’, in Aniruddha Ray and
S.K. Bagchi (eds.), Technology in Ancient and Medieval India, Sandeep
Prakashan/South Asia Books (1 Aug. 1986), ISBN: 10:8185055955/ISBN: 13-978-
8185055954, Delhi, 1986, pp. 129-141.
(V) (a) Presidential Address (es):
1. Delivered Presidential Address entitled, ‘Punjab Three Hundred Years Ago’, in
the 48th Session of Punjab History Conference, Punjabi University, Patiala, 4-6
March, 2016. 2. Delivered Presidential Address in a National Seminar ‘Social Reform in India: The
Phule-Ambedkar Tradition’, Department of History, Kurukshetra University, 27-28
November, 2015.
3. Presidential Address in Medieval India Section, 23rd
session of U.P. History
Congress, October, 2012. The topic of the Address will be ‘European Response to
Asian Medical System in the 17th
Century’.
4. Presidential Address in Section-II, Medieval Andhra History, 34th
Session, Andhra
Pradesh History Congress, Jagrlamudi Kuppuswami Choudary College, Guntur,
23-24 February, 2010. The topic of the Address was ‘The Dutch East India
Company and Ship building Industry in the Coastal Andhra during 17th
Century’.
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5. Presidential Address, Medieval India Section, VIIth
session of Bihar Itihas Parishad
at B.R. Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur (Bihar). The topic of the Address
was ‘The Dutch East India Company in Bihar: Challenges and Responses, 1630-
1700 AD’.
6. Presidential address in the Medieval section of 19th
annual session of Paschim
Banga Itihas Sansad, 24-26 January, 2003, at Sripat Singh College Jia ganj,
Murshidabad, West Bengal. The title of the Address was ‘Textile Technology in
Medieval India’.
(b) Key-Note Address(es):
1. Presented Key Note address on ‘Gujarat and Coromandel in Textile Export Trade
during the Seventeenth Century’ organised by the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute on
Textile Collections, Communities, Culture and Trade, 9th
-10th
January, 2016.
2. Presented Key Note address on ‘Palaces, Gardens and Water Bodies in the 17th
Century’ in ICHR National Seminar on ‘Palaces, Gardens and Water Bodies: A
Study of the Urban Space in India’, organised by Mahila P.G. Vidyalaya, Jodhpur,
25th
-26th
July, 2016.
3. Delivered Key Note address on ‘The Agrarian Changes and Their Impact on Jatt
Peasantry in Post Independence Era’, in the National Seminar on ‘Jats: Their Role
and Contribution to the Socio-Economic Life and Polity on North & North-West
India’, organized by Surajmal Memorial Education Society (Regd.), 10th
October,
2015, New Delhi.
4. Delivered Key-Note Address in the National Seminar on ‘Science and Technology
in India: A Study in Historical Perspective through the Ages’, Department of
History, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 19-20 February, 2012.
The topic of the Address was ‘Science and Technology in Ancient and Medieval
India – An Overview’.
5. Delivered Key-Note Address in a National Seminar on ‘Social Transformation in
Early and Medieval Andhra Pradesh’ at Department of History, ANU Ongole
Campus, Ongole on 26th
November, 2011. The topic of the Key-Note address was
‘Labourers and Artisans in Medieval India’.
6. Delivered Key-Note Address in a National Seminar on ‘Society, Culture and
Economy in Medieval Rajasthan: As Reflected in Literature, Inscriptions and
European Sources (12th
to 18th
Century)’, at Maru Bhumi Shodh Sansthan, Sri
Dungargarh (Bikaner), Rajasthan, 24 July, 2011. The topic of the Address was
‘Depiction of Rajasthani Society, Culture and Economy in the Dutch Sources’.
7. Delivered Key-Note Address on India and Iran: On Cultural Heritage’ at Poona
College of Arts, Pune, on 3rd
March, 2011. The topic of the Address was ‘Indo-Iran
Relations in Historical Perspective’.
8. Delivered Key Note Address in the National Seminar on ‘Situating History of
Science in India’, held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 30th
March 2009.
(c) Special Lecture (s):
1. Delivered a lecture on ‘A Historiography of Indian Movement’ in the 3rd
National Urdu Social Science Congress, 27th November, 2019, Maulana Azad
National Urdu University, Hyderabad.
2. Delivered Six Invited Lectures under UGC SAP-DRS-II Programme in the
Department of History, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, 19-21 March,
2018.
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3. Delivered two invited lectures on ‘Technology and Society in Pre-Modern
India’, in the Short Term Course, organized by Arts, Commerce and Science
College, Sonai, Maharashtra, 6th October, 2018. 4. Presented Key Note address on ‘Gujarat and Coromandel in Textile Export Trade
during the Seventeenth Century’ organised by the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute on
Textile Collections, Communities, Culture and Trade, 9th
-10th
January, 2016.
5. Presented Key Note address on ‘Palaces, Gardens and Water Bodies in the 17th
Century’ in ICHR National Seminar on ‘Palaces, Gardens and Water Bodies: A
Study of the Urban Space in India’, organised by Mahila P.G. Vidyalaya, Jodhpur,
25th
-26th
July, 2016.
6. Delivered H.K. Barpujari Endowment Lecture, entitled ‘Level of Technology and
its impact on society’ at Department of History, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh,
Assam, 13.05.2016.
7. Delivered a lecture on ‘Tolerance: Essence of Secular Democracy’, at Yashwantrao
Chavan Pratishthan, near Sachivalaya, Mumbai, 5th
February, 2016.
8. Delivered H.K. Barpujari Endowment Lecture on ‘Technology and Society in
Medieval India’, in the Department of History, Dibrugarh University, 13th May,
2016. 9. Delivered Radheshyam Memorial Lecture on ‘Animal Harnessing Technology in
Ancient & Medieval India’ in the 22nd
Annual Session of U.P. History Congress,
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 15 October 2011.
10. Extension Lecture on ‘Technology in Medieval India’ at Vidyasagar University, Midnapur
(Bengal), 1 February 2008.
(d) Academic Programmes Chaired:
1. Chaired a Session in a National Seminar on ‘Conflict and Cooperation in Medieval
India’ 28-30 January, 2019 organized by CAS Department of History, AMU,
Aligarh. 2. Invited to Chair the panel on ‘Ecological Revolution and Socialization of Nature’,
at Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Kolkata, 14th
September, 2012.
3. Chaired valedictory function of South Indian History Congress, at Kannur
University, Kannur, 8 February, 2010.
4. Chaired one Session of the International Seminar on ‘Monsooon Asia in the Age of
Revolutions (1780-1830) Changes of Regime and their Aftermath’, organized
jointly by Department of History, University of Mumbai and Institute for History,
University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 12-14 January, 2010.
5. Chaired one session of the National Seminar on ‘Research Trends in Castes and
Tribes of Southern India: A Centenary Seminar’, at Programme for the Study of
Discrimination and Exclusion, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, 24 November, 2009.
(e) Guest of Honour:
1. Guest of Honour, 3rd
National Urdu Social Science Congress, 27-28 November
2019, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad.
2. Visiting Professor, University of Calcutta, 27.03.2017 to 30.03.2017 and delivered
lectures on themes relating to Medieval India.
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3. Guest of Honour at Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh (Assam), in the National
Seminar on ‘Understanding Agrarian History of the North-East India’, 11-13
March, 2012.
4. Guest of Honour at T.M. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur (Bihar), in a National
Seminar on ‘Historiography on Science and Technology in Ancient India (C.2500
BC-1200 AD)’,18-20 September, 2011.
5. Chief Guest in the 31st Annual Session of the South Indian History Congress, Yogi
Vemana University, Kadapa, A.P., 28 January, 2011.
6. Guest of Honour, International Seminar on Amir Khusrau at Calicut University,
Calicut, 9 February 2010.
(f) Lectures delivered in Refresher Courses: (a) delivered lectures in Refresher
Courses at Academic Staff College, A.M.U, 2001-02; Refresher Course
Programme, P.G. Department of History, Sambalpur, Orissa, 22-25, January, 1999;
the Refresher Course Programme, Department of History, Berhampur, 9-12
February, 1999; Refresher Course Programme Academic Staff College, Central
University, Hyderabad; Refresher Course Programme Academic Staff College,
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Delhi University, 2010; BRA Gorakhpur
University, Gorakhpur, 15 December, 2009; Refresher Course Programme, North
Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 6th
December 2010; Refresher Course organised
by the Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, 12th
November, 2010; Academic Staff
College, AMU, July 2012.
(b) Workshop on Indo-Greek History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
November 2007; Workshop on Trade and Commerce in Mughal India, Department
of History, Rabindra Bharati University, 29-31 January 2008.
(VI) Projects:
1. Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi granted a project on ‘Minerals,
Mining and Metal working Crafts in Medieval India C. 1600-1750 AD.: A study
Based on Dutch Sources’, 20-07-2010.
2. Received UGC Award on the project, ‘Finance and Commerce in Seventeenth
century North India based on Dutch East India Company Records’, 2007-2010.
(VII) Conference(s) / Seminar(s) (National level):
(a) Technology, Economy and Society:
Published:
1. ‘The Dutch Company and Coromandel Merchants during the First Half of the
Seventeenth Century’, in Sajal Nag & Ishrat Alam, eds. Blending Nation and Region,
Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha, Delhi, 2018, pp.89-99.
2. ‘Punjab Three Hundred Years Ago’, Presidential Address (Medieval Section),
Proceedings of Punjab History Conference, 48th
Session, March 4-6, 2016, Patiala,
2017, p.57-67.
3. ‘Shipping and Shipbuilding in India during the Seventeenth Century’, presented in 71st
Session, Indian History Congress, 11-13 February, 2011, published in Proceedings of the
Indian History Congress, Indian History Congress, ISSN: 22491937, Kolkata, 2011 (ISNN
2249-1937), pp. 377-391.
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4. ‘The Dutch East India Company and Shipbuilding Industry in the Coastal Andhra during
17th Century’, Presidential Address, Section-II Medieval Andhra History Congress,
Guntur, 2010, published in the Proceedings of the Thirty Fourth Session, Andhra Pradesh
History Congress, Guntur, 2010, pp. I-X.
5. ‘Petticoat Government in a Mughal Provincial Town’, paper presented in the 69th
Session of Indian History Congress, Kannur University, Kannur, 28-31 December 2008,
published in the Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Indian History Congress, ISSN:
22491937, Delhi, 2009, pp. 264-69.
6. ‘Indian Ocean slave Trade in the 17th century’, presented in the 68th session of Indian
History Congress, Delhi, December 2007, published in the Proceedings of Indian History
Congress, Indian History Congress, ISSN: 22491937, 2008, Delhi, pp. 1178-1190.
7. ‘The Dutch East India Company Communication Net work over land and sea’, papers
presented in a special panel on ‘History of information and communication technology
in India through the ages’ sponsored by the Directorate of I.T and Bio-techn4ology, Govt.
of Karnataka in the 64th session of Indian History of Congress, Mysore, 28-30
December, 2003, published in Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Dipankar Sinha and Varnita Bagchi,
eds.Webs of History, Information, Communication & Technology from Early to Post –
Colonial India, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, ISBN: 10-
8173046131/ISBN:13:9788173046131 New Delhi 2005, pp. 119-130.
8. ‘Jewish Merchants in the Mughal Empire’, presented in the 65th session of Indian History
Congress, Bareilly, December 2004, published in Proceedings of Indian History Congress,
Delhi, 2005, pp. 267-276.
9. ‘Names for India in Ancient Indian Texts and Inscriptions’, paper presented in a special
Panel on ‘Idea of India’, in the 63rd Session of Indian History Congress, Amritsar, 28-30
December 2002 published in Irfan Habib, ed. India- -Studies in the History of an Idea,
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., ISBN: 10:8121511526/ISBN
13:9788121511520, Delhi, 2005, pp. 36-44.
10. ‘Dutch Trade at Awadh in the Sixteenth Century’, in 12th session of U.P. History
Congress, Bareilly, 2001, published in A.K. Sinha, ed., Perspectives in Indian History,
Anamika Publishers and Distributors Ltd., ISBN 81:7975-076-0, New Delhi, 2004,
pp.134-150.
11. ‘The Dutch East India company Trade at Vengurla in the Seventeenth Century’,
presented in the 64th session of Indian History Congress, Mysore, December, 2003,
published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (64th session, Mysore) 2003,
Indian History Congress, ISSN: 22491937, Patna, 2004, pp. 646-666.
12. ‘Medieval Kalinjar: An Economic Profile”, presented in the 63rd session of Indian History
Congress, Amritsar, 2002, published in Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Kolkata,
2003, pp. 308-315.
13. ‘A popular Rebellion at Broach during the Reign of Aurangzeb: A Dutch Report’,
presented at the Xth session of U.P. History Congress, 1997. Agra, published in A.K.
Sinha, ed., Readings in History, Anamika Publishers & Distributors (Pvt.) Ltd., Delhi,
2002, pp. 218-220.
14. ‘Iron Manufactures in Golconda in the 17th Century’, paper presented at the 49th session
of Indian History Congress, Dharwad, 1989, published in Tradition and Innovation in the
History of Iron Making, An Indo-European Perspective, eds., Girija Pande and Jan A.
Geijerstam, Paha, Parikarma, ISBN: 81-86246-19-3, Nainital, 2002, pp.98-111.
15. ‘Technological Exchanges between India and Iran in Ancient and Medieval Times’,
presented in a special panel on ‘India and Iran Historical Relationship’, in the 62nd
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session of Indian History Congress, Bhopal, 2001, published in Irfan Habib, ed. A Shared
Heritage: The Growth of Civilizations in India and Iran, ISBN: 8, 1-85229-73-2(Hb),
Tulika, Delhi, 2002, pp. 77-98.
16. ‘Cotton Technology in India Down to the 16th Century’, paper presented at the 43rd
Session of Indian History Congress, 1982, Kurukshetra, published in A. Rahman, ed.,
India’s Interaction with China, Central and West Asia, Vol-III(2), Oxford University Press,
ISBN: 13-978-1-0195657890/ISBN: 10:0195657896, Delhi, 2002, pp.445-463.
17. ‘Journal of Dircq van Adrichem and Tales of his Travel between Surat to Delhi (1662):
An Assessment’, paper presented in U.P. History Congress, 8th session, 13-14 February,
1994, Varanasi, published in Proceedings of U.P. History Congress, Ankita Printers,
Gorakhpur, 2001, pp. 130-149.
18. ‘Dutch Trade in Awadh: Farmans of Shahjahan and Aurangzeb”, paper presented in 62nd
session of Indian History Congress, Open Bhoj University, Bhopal, 28-30 December
2001, published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Bhopal, Indian History
Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937, 2001, pp. 256-262.
19. ‘Smallpox, and its Treatment in India - A Premodern History’, presented in a special
panel on ‘History of Medicine and Health’ in the Millennium (61st) session of Indian
History Congress, 2-4 January 2001, Calcutta University, Kolkota, published in Deepak
Kumar, ed., Disease and Medicine in India, A Historical Overview, Tulika, Columbia
University Press, ISBN: 9789382381051, Delhi, 2001, pp.85-93.
20. ‘Sericulture in India to the 17th Century’, presented in the of 60th session Indian History
Congress, Calicut, December, 1999, published in the Proceedings of the Indian History
Congress, Indian History Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937, Aligarh, 2000, pp. 339-352.
21. ‘Malda in the seventeenth century—An Economic profile’, presented in a National
Seminar on ‘Urbanization in Medieval India’ jointly held by the Asiatic Society of Bengal
and Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, Kolkata, September 17-19, 1997,
published in Pratna Samiksha, ed. Gautam Sengupta Directorate of Archaeology and
Museums, Govt. of West Bengal, Vol. 6-8, 1997-1999, pp. 109-120.
22. Review article, K.S. Mathew, ed., Mariners, Merchants and Ocean; Studies in Maritime
History, published in The Indian Historical Review, Indian Council of Historical Research,
ISSN:0376-9836, New Delhi, 1998, pp. 121-132.
23. ‘Diamond Mining and Trade in South India in the 17th century’, presented in the 59th
session of Indian History Congress, December, 1998, published in the Proceedings of the
Indian History Congress, Aligarh 1998, pp. 311-328; published also in Medieval History
Journal, ed. Harbans Mukhia, Vol-3 No. 2, July_December, ISSN: 0971:9458, New Delhi,
2000, Sage Publications, pp. 291-310.
24. ‘Conditions of Gujarat in mid 18th century’, presented in the 58th session of Indian
History Congress, Bangalore, 1997, published in the Proceedings of the Indian History
Congress, Indian History Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937, Aligarh, 1998, pp. 391-399.
25. ‘Rented Housing in Mughal India --- The Dutch and English Experience’, presented in the
2nd session of Association for the Study of History and Archaeology (A.S.H.A.), June,
1996, Aligarh, published in Reason and Archaeology, ed., K.M. Shrimali, Association for
the Study of History and Archaeology, Delhi, 1998, pp. 153-158.
26. ‘Mahmudi-Rupee Exchange and Rates on Bills in the Seventeenth Century’ presented in
the 57th session of Indian History Congress, December 27-29, 1996, published in the
Proceedings of the Indian History Congress’, (57th session, Chennai, 1996), Indian History
Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937, Calcutta, 1997, pp. 366-374.
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27. ‘The Dutch East India Company’s version of the putting out system in Coromandel, 17th
century’, presented in the 56th session of the Indian History Congress, December 28-30,
1995, published in the Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Calcutta, 1997, pp. 403-
412; also published in the Journal of East West Maritime Relations, Study Group for East
West Maritime Relations, The Middle Eastern Culture Centre in Japan, Vol.4, Japan,
1996, pp. 61-70.
28. ‘Trade at Surat, 1648—Dutch Memoir’, presented in the 55th session of Indian History
Congress, Aligarh, 1994, published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress,
Indian History Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937, Aligarh, 1996, pp. 324-335.
29. ‘Saltpetre suppliers in Bihar and the Dutch East India Company: Analysis of a Dutch
Enquiry into Fraud by its servants at Chhapra’, presented in the 54th session of Indian
History Congress, December, Mysore, 1994, published in the Proceedings of the Indian
History Congress, Indian History Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937, Delhi, 1995, pp. 263-272.
30. ‘A Dutch Memoir of 1603 on Indian Textiles’, presented in a seminar on ‘Akbar and His
Age’, held at the Centre of Advanced Study in History, Department of History, AMU,
Aligarh, 9-11 October 1992, published in ed., Irfan Habib, ed. Akbar and his India, Oxford
University Press, ISBN:9780195646320, Delhi, 1997, pp.294-297.
31. ‘Dutch imports of precious Metals into India in the First half of the 17th Century’,
presented in the 53rd session of Indian History Congress, December (1992-93),
published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (53rd session), Indian
History Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937, Warangal, 1993, pp.265-275.
32. ‘Announcing Time-The Unique Method at Hayatnagar, 1676’, S.R. Sarma and Ishrat
Alam, presented in the 52nd session of Indian History Congress, 21-23 February, Delhi,
1992, published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Indian History
Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937, Delhi, 1992, pp. 426-431.
33. ‘Credit transactions at Broach (1627-28): Papers of a Dutch Factor’, paper presented in
the 51st session of Indian History Congress, published in the Proceedings of the Indian
History Congress, (51st session, Calcutta, 1990), Indian History Congress, ISSN: 2249-
1937, Calcutta, 1991, pp. 300-307.
34. ‘Gujarat and Coromandel as Rival Exporters in the 17th Century – A Study of Dutch
documents’, a summary is published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress,
(Golden Jubilee Session,Gorakhpur, 1989), Indian History Congress, ISSN: 2249-1937,
Gorakhpur, 1990, pp.356-7.
35. ‘Textiles Tools as depicted in Ajanta and Mughal Paintings’, paper presented in a
Seminar on ‘Technology in Medieval India-Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century’, September,
1984, Calcutta, published in Aniruddha Ray and SK Bagchi (eds.), Technology in Ancient
and Medieval India, , Sandeep Prakashan/South Asia Books(1 Aug. 1986), ISBN:
10:8185055955/ISBN: 13-978-8185055954, Delhi, 1986.
(VIII) Papers Presented in International Conference(s)/Seminar(s) (Select):
1. ‘Zinc in Indian Commerce in the 17th
Century’, presented in the 79th
session of the
Indian History Congress, Barkatullah University Bhopal, 26-25th
February 2019.
2. ‘System of the Hospitals in Medieval India’ presented in the two-day international
Seminar on ‘Health, Diseases and Society: History of Medicine in India and
Beyond’ organized by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 27-28 February 2019.
3. ‘(Ex-)Changing Knowledge and Cultural Appropriation, Diffusion of Scientific and
Technological Ideas in Medieval India’ presented in two day International
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Conference on ‘Concept and Convas of Knowledge: Asian Studies from Pre-
Modern to Modern Times’ , Department of History, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan
University of Calcutta, 22-24 February, 2019.
4. ‘Ancient and Medieval History: Exploring New Avenues’ presented in a national
Seminar on ‘Interpreting India’s Ancient and Medieval Past’ Department of
History, University of Calcutta, 14 March 2019.
5. ‘Company Trade and Indian Artisans: Conflict and Cooperation during 17th
Century’, paper presented in a National Seminar on ‘Conflict and Cooperation in
Medieval India’, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, A.M.U.,
Aligarh, January, 2019.
6. ‘Production Technology and Applied Sciences in Medieval India’, paper presented
at the 9th
CBC Conference on ‘Science and Technology in Pre-Modern Asia’, 4-6
December, 2018, Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
7. ‘The Pedlar’s System of Communication: The Armenian South Asia Network’,
paper presented in Joint Seminar ICSSR-JSPS on ‘Networks of Knowledge in the
Asian World 16th
to 19th
Centuries, organised by the Department of History,
Savitribai Phule, Pune University, 11-13 January, 2018.
8. ‘Textile Designing: A Chapter in the Technological Exchanges between Iran and
India’, paper presented in the panel on ‘India and Iran: The History of Their
Relations’ organised by the Aligarh Historians Society, 29-30 December, 2017,
Synchronizing with the annual session of Indian History Congress, 78th Session,
28-30 December, 2017.
9. Presented a paper on ‘The Dutch East India Company and the Export of Iron and
Steel from Deccan in the 17th
Century’ in an International Symposium on
‘Networks in the Deccan’ at H.K. Sherwani Centre for Deccan Studies, Maulana
Azad National Urdu University, 30th
-31st January, 2017.
10. Invited by the University of Tokyo (Japan) under the ICSSR-JSPS Programme
between 14.03.2017 to 20.03.2017 presented a paper on ‘Textiles in the Pre-Modern
Economics of India and Japan: A Comparative Study’.
11. Presented a paper “Local Supporters of Gandhiji in Champaran Satyagraha’ in
the National Seminar on ‘Gandhi in Champaran: A Revisit’, sponsored by the
National Archives of India, New Delhi and organised by University Department
of History, B.R. Ambedkar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, 10-11 April, 2017.
12. Presented a paper on ‘The Role of Indian History Congress in Pursuing Secular
and Scientific History Writing’ in the National Seminar on ‘Tolerance: Essence
of Secular Democracy’, Mumbai, 5th
February, 2016.
13. Presented a paper on ‘Law and Customs Relating to Foreigners in the Mughal
Empire’, in an International Seminar at NALSAR, Hyderabad, 6-9 December, 2016.
14. Presented a paper on ‘History of Medicine in Transnational Perspective’ in the 51st
Session of the German Historical Association (VHD), Verband der Historiker-and
Historikerinnen Deutschlands e.v.) together with the Association of German History
Teachers (Verband der Geschichtslehrer Deutschlands e.v.) at the Hamburg
University, Germany.
15. Presented a paper entitled ‘Transformations on the Seas: Changes in the Fortunes of
European East India Companies in the First-Half of 18th
Century’, in a National
Seminar in ‘Transitions in Indian History’ organized by the Department of History,
Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 10-12, March, 2015.
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16. Presented a paper on ‘Ports and Hinterland in the Seventeenth Century
Coromandel’, in the session ‘The City and the World – Spatial and Temporal
Connectivities in the Pre-Modern World’, at the XVII World Economic History
Congress, Kyoto, Japan, 3rd -7th August, 2015.
17. Presented a paper ‘Bernier’s Description of Mughal and Ottoman Empires: A
Comparison’, in an International Conference jointly organised by Centre for
Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Bilgi University, Istambul
on ‘Cultural Encounters and Interactions: Ottoman, Mughal, Vijaynagar
Empires and Beyond’, 7th-9th November, 2015.
18. Presented a paper on ‘The Question of the Dalits and its Historiography – An
Assessment’, in a National Seminar on ‘Social Reform in India: The Phule-
Ambedkar Tradition’, organised by the Department of History and Mahatma
Jyotiba Phule Chair, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, 27-28 November, 2015.
19. Presented a paper on ‘Pearl fishing in a 17th
Century Dutch Report’, in the 76th
session of Indian History Congress, University of Gaur Banga, Malda, 27th
-29th
December, 2015.
20. Presented a paper on ‘The Dutch East India Company, Indian Textiles and the
Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century’, in the XVIth
World Economic History
Congress, 9-13 July, 2012 at Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University,
South Africa.
21. Presented a paper on ‘Indo-Iran relations in Historical Perspective’, in an
International Conference, organized by Poona College of Arts, Science &
Commerce, University of Pune, Pune, 3-5 March, 2011.
22. “Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding in the eyes of the Dutch during the 17th
Century’, presented a paper in the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences
(ICHS), Amsterdam, (The Netherlands), 22-28 August, 2010.
23. ‘Historical Roots of the Public Education System: An Assessment from Ancient to
Modern Times’, paper presented in India-France Joint Seminar on Challenges in
Public Higher Education: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Jointly held by UGC,
ICPR, ICHR, ICSSR and MSH, Paris, 21-22 December 2009. (in press)
24. ‘The Dutch East India Company in the Persian Gulf Trade in First Half of the
Seventeenth Century’, paper presented in the International Congress on Persian
Gulf, Tehran (Iran), 19-21 May 2009.
25. ‘Indigo Production Technique in Medieval Peninsular India’, presented in
International Seminar on ‘Culture of Indigo-Exploring the Asian Panorama: Plant,
Product and Power’, jointly organized by IIC Asia Project, India International
Centre and Indian Council of Historical Research, Delhi, 29th
November – 1
December 2007. (in press)
26. ‘European Physicians in Medieval India’, paper presented in an international
seminar on ‘Health and Medicine in History: East-West Exchange’. In the third
conference of the Asian Society for History of Medicine (ASHM), Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, 2-4 November 2006. (in press)
27. ‘Pelsaert’s Chronicle and the History of Akbar’, paper presented in an international
Seminar on ‘Reason and Tolerance in Indian History’, organized by the Indian
Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, 28-30 October 2006.
28. ‘Sarrafs (Bankers) in the Mughal Empire’, paper presented in the XIVth
session of
International Economic History Congress, Helsinki (Finland), 21-25 August, 2006.
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29. ‘Turkish Merchants in the Mughal Empire-From the Seventeenth century Dutch
Records’, paper presented in Indo-Turkish Seminar on the theme ‘Turkish and
Indian studies: An Appraisal’, organized by the Indian Council of Historical
Research, Delhi, 9-11 February, 2005. (accepted for publication).
30. ‘Technological Exchanges between India and Greco-Roman World’, paper
presented in an International Seminar on ‘The Spirit of Hellas: Landmarks in
History, Language, Literature and Culture of the Greeks’, jointly organized by
Embassy of Greece, School of language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi and Indian Council of Historical Research, New
Delhi, 12-17 November, 2017.
31. ‘Timber Trade, Ecology and the Dutch East India Company in the South East Asia
in the Seventeenth Century’ paper presented in the Conference on the
Environmental History of Asia, organized jointly by Zakir Husain Centre for
Educational Studies J.N.U., Delhi & University of Sussex, 4th
–7th
December 2002.
32. ‘Iron making in pre-Colonial India’, paper presented in an international Conference
on ‘Iron & Steel Production in India and Sweden: History, Technology and
Development’, jointly organized by Department of History, Kumaon University,
Nainital and the Department of History of Science & Technology, Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, March 8-11, 2000.
Paper Presented in National Conference(s)/Seminar(s) (Select List):
1. Presented a paper on ‘Pearl Fisheries off Tuticorin Coasts in the 17th Century—A
Dutch Report’ presented in the 80th Annual Session of Indian History Congress,
University of Kannur, Kannur, 28-30 December, 2019.
2. Presented a paper on ‘Company Trade and Indian Artisans: Conflict and Cooperations during 17th Century’ in a National Seminar on ‘Conflict and
Cooperation in Medieval India’ 28-30 January, 2019 organized by CAS Department of
History, AMU, Aligarh. 3. Presented a paper on ‘Indian Merchants in Dutch Records’ in a Seminar jointly
organised by Aligarh Historians Society and CAS Department of History, AMU, on the
theme ‘India’s Business Class, Past & Present’, on 29-30 December 2018.
4. Presented a paper on ‘The Pedlar’s System of Communication: The Armenian South
Asia Network’, paper presented in Joint Seminar ICSSR-JSPS on ‘Networks of
Knowledge in the Asian World 16th
to 19th
Centuries, organised by the Department of
History, Savitribai Phule, Pune University, 11-13 January, 2018. 5. ‘Textile Designing: A Chapter in the Technological Exchanges between Iran and India’,
paper presented in the panel on ‘India and Iran: The History of Their Relations’
organised by the Aligarh Historians Society, 29-30 December, 2017, Synchronizing
with the annual session of Indian History Congress, 78th
Session, 28-30 December,
2017.
6. Presented a paper on ‘The Dutch East India Company and the Export of Iron and Steel
from Deccan in the 17th
Century’ in an International Symposium on ‘Networks in the
Deccan’ at H.K. Sherwani Centre for Deccan Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu
University, 30th
-31st January, 2017.
7. Invited by the University of Tokyo (Japan) under the ICSSR-JSPS Programme between
14.03.2017 to 20.03.2017 presented a paper on ‘Textiles in the Pre-Modern Economics
of India and Japan: A Comparative Study’.
8. Presented a paper “Local Supporters of Gandhiji in Champaran Satyagraha’ in the
National Seminar on ‘Gandhi in Champaran: A Revisit’, sponsored by the National
Archives of India, New Delhi and organised by University Department of History, B.R.
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Ambedkar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, 10-11 April, 2017.
9. Presented a paper on ‘The Role of Indian History Congress in Pursuing Secular and
Scientific History Writing’ in the National Seminar on ‘Tolerance: Essence of Secular
Democracy’, Mumbai, 5th
February, 2016.
10. Presented a paper on ‘An Early Document Relating to Chalebi Merchants of Surat,
in the 77 session of Indian History Congress, University of Kerala,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 28-30 December, 2016.
11. Presented a paper on ‘The Dutch East-India Company and the Indian Legal System
in the 17th Century’, in a special panel ‘Dutch Sources in India: Much More Than
Trade’, in the 77th session of Indian History Congress, University of Kerala,
Thiruvananthapuram, 29th December, 2016.
12. Delivered Key Note Address entitled, ‘Palaces, Gardens, Land Scape, Water Bodies
and Urbanization in India in historical perspective’, of a National Seminar on
‘Palaces, Gardens and Water Bodies: A Study of Urban Space in India’.
13. Delivered the lecture Barpujari Endowment Lecture, entitled ‘Level of Technology
and its Impact on Society’ in the Department of History, Dibrugarh University,
Dibrugarh, Assam, 13.05.2016.
14. Delivered a lecture on ‘Tolerance: Essence of Secular Democracy’, at Yashwantrao
Chavan Pratishthan, near Sachivalaya, Mumbai, 5th February, 2016.
15. 'Transformation on the Seas: Changes in the Fortunes of European East India
Companies during the 18th Century,' paper presented in a National Seminar on
'Transitions in Indian History', organised by the Department of History, Savitrbai
Phule Pune University, Pune, 10-12 March 2015.
16. ‘Ports and Harbours and Shifting Coastlines in the Seventeenth Century’, paper
presented in ICHR sponsored National Seminar on ‘Issues in Environmental
History of India: Pre-Colonial and Colonial Time,’ organized by Department of
History, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur, 16-17 September, 2014.
17. ‘Financial System of the Qutbshahi State’, paper presented in a national Seminar on
‘The State in Medieval India’, organized by the Centre of Advanced Study,
Department of History, AMU, Aligarh, 25-27 March 2014.
18. ‘Ports and Hinterland in the Seventeenth Century Coromandel’, paper presented in
the session ‘The City and the World-Spatial and Temporal Connectivities in the
pre-Modern World’, at the XVIIth World Economic History Congress, held in
Kyoto, Japan, 3-7 August, 2015.
19. ‘Technological Exchanges between East and West’, presented in an International
Seminar on 'Cross Cultural Knowledge Exchange in Antiquity: India, Iran, Greece
and China', organised by Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University,
New Delhi, 7-9 January 2015. (of this I was one of the organisers.
20. 'Mughals and the North East', paper presented in an International Seminar on
Mughals and the North East: Linkages, Sustenance and 'Crisis', organized by the
Department of History, Assam University, Silchar, 10-11 November 2014.
21. ‘Cities on the Coromandel Coast in the Eyes of A Dutch Factor: Daniel Havart’,
presented in an International conference or 'Cities in Indian History', organized by
the Department of History, Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad, 16-17
December 2014.
22. 'Joan Josua Ketelaar's Embassy to the Mughal Court at Lahore, 1711-1713 - An
Assessment' presented in Medieval Section at Indian History Congress, 11-12
December, 2012.
23. 'Agricultural Technology in Medieval India, 1200-1750AD' presented in UGC
sponsored National Seminar on 'Pre-Colonial Modes of Production in India, 2-3
March 2012.
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24. ‘Banking and Credit in Mughal and Ottoman Empire' presented in ICHR sponsored
International Indo-Turkish joint seminar on 'Encounter between Two
Civilizations: India and Turkey in Historical Perspective' at India International
Centre, New Delhi, 15-17 February 2012.
16. Presented a paper on ‘Joan Josua Ketelaar’s Embassy to the Mughal Court at
Lahore, 1711-1713 – An Assessment’ in the Medieval Session at Indian History
Congress, Department of History, Punjabi University, Patiala on 11-12 December,
2012.
17. Presented a paper on ‘Banking and Credit in Mughal and Otoman Empire’, in an
ICHR sponsored International Indo-Turkish joint seminar on Encounter between
Two Civilizations: India and Turkey in Historical Perspective at India International
Centre, New Delhi, 15-17 February 2012.
18. Presented a paper on ‘Agricultural Technology in Medieval India, 1200-1750 AD’,
in a UGC sponsored National Seminar on ‘Pre-Colonial Moder of Production in
India, 2-3 March 2012 at Kalyani Mahavidyalaya.
19. Presented a paper on ‘Composite Culture and the Mercantile Classes in Medieval
India’ at 72nd Session of Indian History Congress at Department of History, Punjabi
University, Patiala in IHC Platinum Jubilee Seminar on ‘The Composite Culture of
India: Its Evolution and Changing Contexts, 11-13 December, 2011.
20. Presented a paper on ‘Building Construction and Artisans in the 16th – 17th Century
India’ at 72nd Session of Indian History Congress at Department of History, Punjabi
University, Patiala 11-12 December, 2011.
21. Presented a paper on ‘Caste and Textile Industry in the Mughal India’, in a panel on
‘Caste: Origins, Evolution, Diffusion, Repression, Resistance’ organised by Aligarh
Historians Society, Malda, 12-13 February 2011.
22. Presented a paper on ‘Trends in Medieval Economic History’, in a National Seminar
on “Trends in Economic History”, Department of History, Calcutta University,
Kolkata, 10-11 February, 2010.
23. Presented a paper on ‘The Turkish Trade in India from Dutch Sources’, in ICHR
sponsored National Seminar on ‘Exploring Foreign Sources for the study of Indian
History’ at Department of History, University of Pune, Pune, on October 29th, 30th
and 31st, 2009.
24. ‘Extracting Social History from the Documents of Medieval India’, presented in a
national seminar on ‘Writing Social History: Perspectives and Paradigms, A
Dialogue’, Department of History, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, March 8-9, 2008.
25. ‘Pre Modern Indigo Processing Technology’ presented in a panel on ‘Science and
Technology in India’s Past’, organized by Aligarh Historians Society, Aligarh during
the 68th annual session of the Indian History Congress, Delhi, 29 December 2007.
26. ‘The Dutch East India Company, Mughal Administration and the Economy of Bihar
during the 17the Century’, paper presented in a national seminar on ‘Phases of
Transition in the History of Bihar’, organized jointly by the Khuda Bakhsh oriental
Public Library, Patna and the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, 17-
18 September, 2006.
27. ‘Institution versus History: Interpretations of Early Colonial Oceanic History’,
presented in a seminar on History and Phiolosphy’ sponsored by Indian Institute
of Advanced Study organized by Aligarh Historians Society, Aligarh. 12-14 June,
2006.
28. ‘Slavery and European Demand for Indian Textiles in the 17th Century’, Paper
presented at the 16th session of U.P. History Congress. Naini Tal 28-30 November
2005.
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29.‘Modes of Cultivation, Processing and Marketing of Indigo in Mughal India’, paper
presented in a National Seminar on ‘Agriculture in South Asia’s History: Issues and
paradigms’ organized by the Indian Council of Historical Research, Delhi, 25-27
February 2005, (accepted for publication)
30. ‘Textile Industry in Varanasi to the 19th Century’, paper presented in a national
Seminar on “Varanasi Through the Ages: Elements of Continuity and Change”,
Department of History, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, February 22-23, 2003.
31. ‘Level of Textile Technology and its impact on Weaving Community in Medieval
India’, paper presented in an International Seminar on ‘Science, Technology and
Society’ held in the Department of History, Punjab University, Chandigarh 29-31
January 2003. (Accepted for publication).
32. ‘The Fort of Kalinjar and its Environs in Medival Times’ paper presented in
National Seminar on Kalinjar, 18th November, 2002.
33. ‘Dutch Trading Activities at Agra in the Seventeenth Century’, paper presented at
the 13th session of U.P. History Congress, Allahabad, 20-21 October 2002.
34. ‘A Note on Tipu Sultan’s Efforts to Introduce Sericulture in Mysore’, presented in a
special Panel on “Mysore: Confronting Colonialism”, in the 60th Session of Indian
History Congress, Calicut, 28-30 December 1999.
35. ‘Cotton Painting at Sadraspathnam in the 17th century—A Dutch Report’, paper
presented in the 3rd Annual session of Association for the Study of History and
Archaeology, (ASHA), Calcutta, 26-28 March, 1998. (Accepted for publication).
36. ‘A Note on J.J. Ketelaar’s observations about agrarian rebellions in the Agra-
Gwalior region, 1711-1713’, presented in the XIth session of U.P. History congress,
Gorakhpur, 1998.
37. ‘Vengurla and the Dutch East India Company during the 17th Century’ paper
presented in a National Seminar on ‘Non-English European sources
Medieval/Modern Indian polity, society & Economy’ (12-14th March 1994), Pune.
38. ‘The presence of the Dutch Factors at Chhapra in Bihar and their dependence on
indigenous merchants 1679-1687: A study of the Dutch Documents’, paper
presented at the Fourth session of of Bihar Itihas Parishad, Rajgir, 28-29 March
1992.
39. ‘Organization of indigo trade and prices in the Bayana and Sarkhej tracts during
the first half of the 17th century’, paper presented at the 52nd session of Indian
History Congress, Delhi, 1992.
40. ‘Dutch trading activities in Bihar during the 17th century’, paper presented in U.G.C.
seminar on “Material Life in Bihar from Ancient Modern Times”, 21 April to 4 May
1991, organized by the Department of History, Patna University, Patna.
41. ‘Silks and Silk Technology in Medieval India’, paper presented at the 45th session of
Indian History Congress, 1984, Annamalai Nagar.
42. ‘Persian Dictionary Evidence on Textile Technology, 15th and 18th Centuries’, paper
presented at the 44th session of Indian History Congress, 1983, Burdwan.
(IX) (a) Historiography and Sources:
Published:
‘Dutch Sources for the History of Bihar in 17h and 18
th Centuries’, paper presented
in a seminar on the “Sources of the History of Bihar 16 –17 Feb.1991, organized by
the Department of History, Patna University, Patna, published in Journal of
Historical Studies, Patna, 1995, Vol. I, pp. 11-23; published also in Readings in
Indian History (Syed Hasan Askari Centrenary Volume), ed., B.K. Chaudhary,
Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna, 2001, pp. 373-392.
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Presented:
1. Delivered a lecture on ‘Historical Methodology’ in two-day workshop on ‘New
Trends and Technique in Historical Research’, at ICHR’s Western Regional
Centre, Mumbai, 14-15 November, 2011.
2. Delivered lectures on Historiography of Technology and Emerging Trends in
Medieval Indian Historiography and chaired the valedictory session of the same
in ICHR sponsored 21 days workshop on ‘Historical Research Methodology’
on 11 December 2009 at Guwahati, Assam.
3. Delivered lectures on ‘Historiography of Technology’ and ‘Emerging Trends in
Medieval Indian Historiography’, in ICHR sponsored Historiography
Workshop, 20th
November 2009 to 11 December 2009, ICHR’s North-Eastern
Regional Centre, Guwahati, 11 December 2009.
4. ‘Assessing Dutch Historiography of India’, paper presented in a panel on
History and History Writing in India, organized by Aligarh Historians
Society, at Indian History Congress (69th
Session), Kannur, Kerala, 28-31
December 2008.
5. ‘Pelsaert’s Chronicle and History of Akbar’s reign’, paper presented in a special
panel on ‘Akbar and his Age’, in the 66th
session of Indian History Congress,
28-30 Santiniketan, January, 2006.
6. ‘Living together separately in Gujarat: A Dutch Account of early 17th
century’,
paper presented in special panel on ‘Composite Culture in India’ 66th
session of
Indian History Congress, 28 – 30 Santiniketan, January, 2006.
7. ‘Persian sources of Pelsaert’s Account of Jahangir’s Reign’, paper presented in
a national seminar on ‘Historiography in Medival India and Central Asia’,
jointly organized by Indian Council of Historical Research and Khuda Baksh
Oriental Public Library, Patna, 29-30 March 2005 (accepted for publication).
8. ‘Seventeenth Century Persian Documents in the Dutch East India Company
Archives—A Brief Survey’, paper presented at the Two-day panel Discussion
on “Persian texts and Indian Historiography”, organized by Khuda Baksh
Oriental Public Library, Patna at LXVth session of the Indian History Congress
at Bareilly, 29-30 December 2004. (accepted for publication)
9. ‘The Mughal Sarai at Jajau—Exploring Dutch Evidence’, paper presented at the
first session of Association for the Study of History and Archaeology,
Kurukshetra, 8-10 April, 1995.
(b) Environment:
Published:
1. ‘Dutch East India Company and Deforestation of the South-East Asia in the
17th
Century’, paper presented in the 67th
session of Indian History Congress,
Farruk College, Calicut University, 10-12 March, 2007, published in the
Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Indian History Congress, ISSN:
2249-1937, Delhi, 2007, pp. 869-879.
(c) Culture:
Published:
1. ‘Cultural Dimensions of globalization Assessment of Impact of the Internet’,
published in B.N. Patnaik and S. Imtiaz Hasnain, eds. Globalization: Language,
Culture and Media (Proceedings of the Seminar), Institute of Adnaced Study,
ISBN: 81-7968-061-2, Shimla, 2005, pp. 201-207.
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2. ‘National Integration and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’, published in Muslim
University Gazette, Vol. 25, No.4, 24 November 1979, Aligarh, pp. 4, 6,12.
(X) Citations:
1. Ikuko Wada ‘Diamond Trade by the Dutch East India Company in Seventeenth-
Century India’ in Nagazumi Yoko, Large and Broad, The Dutch Impact on Early
Modern Asia, The Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, 2010, cited on p. 167
2. Alam Ishrat, 2000. ‘Diamond Mining and Trade in South India’ Robert Simpkins,
‘An Archeology of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Golkanda’ Karin Hofmeester and
Pim de Zwart, ed. Colonialism, Institutional Change and Shifts In Global Labour
Relations, Rassane Barragon, ‘…und das Problem der Arbeit: eine Studie zur
soziaty eshichte der Stadt Madras und ihres Hinterlandes zwischen 1750 und 1800,
Stuttgart, 1999.
3. Karin Pallaver, ‘Paying in Cents, Paying in Rupees: Colonial Currencies, Labour
Relations, and the payment of Wages in early Colonial Kenya’, Arty Lobo, ‘The
Dutch East India Company Settlements in Tamil Nadu, 1602-1825-A Study in
Political Economy’, Ph.D. thesis.
4. Ronita Ray, ‘All that Glitters: Diamonds and Constructions of Nabobery in British
Portraits (1600-1800), in Julia Skellyed, The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material
Culture,1700-2010, London, Ashgate, 2014, pp. 19-40
5. S. Eijaz Hussain, ‘Rise and Decline of Surgery in Indigenous Medicine with
emphasis on Unani Tibb’, cited ‘Diseases and Medicines in the Pre-Modern World:
Divergent Societies’ Assessments’.
6. Josh Ivinson, ‘The Globalisation of Diamonds via East India Company networks in
the late seventeenth century: Reinterpreting the role of non-Europeans in the
English Anvate Trade’, Noemie Vesdon, ‘Cartograpgy and Cultural encounter:
Conceptualisation of al-Hind of Arabic and Persian Writers from 9th
to 11th
C A.D.’
cited the paper ‘Names of India….’
7. Irfan Habib, Technology in Medieval India, c. 650-1750, New Delhi, 2008, p. 84
where Professor Irfan Habib has appreciated my identification of Cotton gin in one
of the Ajanta frescoes.
8. John S. Deyell, ‘Cowries and coins: The Duala monetary system of the Bengal
Sultanate’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 47, 1 (2010), 63-106,
refers to my paper on ‘Sarrafs (bankers) in the Mughal Empire’, paper presented at
Session, 106, XIV International Economic History Congrall, Helsinki, 2006.
9. D. N. Jha, ‘Looking for a Hindu Identity’, in Social Science Probings, Vol. 18, No.
1, June 2006, p.5.
10. D. N Jha, ‘Looking for a Hindu Identity’, General Presidents Address, 66th
session,
Indian History Congress, 28-30 January 2006, pp-5-6
11. S. Jaikishan, ‘Medieval Iron and steel Industry in worthern Telangana’, Proceeding
of the Indian History Congress, 66th
session (Shantineketan), Delhi, 2006, pp. 339-
341.
12. Shireen Moosvi, ‘Domestic Service in Precolonial India, Bondage, Caste and
Market’, in Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, ed. Domestic Service and the Formation of
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European Identity Understanding the Globalization of Domestic Work, 16th
– 21st
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13. Eugenia Vanina, Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India (Thirteenth-
Eighteenth Centuries), Delhi, 2004, pp. 30-34.
14. Sunita Zaidi, ‘The Saga of Indian Silk’, in Silk The saga of India’s Fashion Fabric,
Survive Magazine, February 2004, p.8.
15. A. Jan Qaisar and Som Prakash Verma, ‘The Miftah ul Fuzala: A study of an
Illustrated Persian Lexicon’, Art and Culture, Painting and Perspective, Abhinav,
Delhi. 2002, p.21.
16. Som Prakash Verma, ‘Ordinary Life in Mughal Painting’, Art and Culture, Painting
and Perspective, Abhinav, Delhi, 2002, p.101.
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and Cultural Development, From the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, Vol. IV,
UNESCO, London, 2000, p.402.
18. Peter Burke and Halil Inalcik, eds., History of Humanity,Scientific andCultural
Development, From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Vol.V. UNESCO,
Paris, 1999, p.
19. S. Najaf Haider, ‘Precious Metal Flows and Currency Circulation in the Mughal
Empire’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol, 39, part 3,
August, 1996 Leiden, p.330.
20. P. Shanmugam, ‘Textile Production during the Vijayanagar Rule’, History and
Society Essays in Honour of Professor Kadhirvel, ed., K.A. Manikumar, Madras,
1996,pp. 43-49.
21. Kiran Singh, Textiles in Ancient India, from Indus Valley Civilization to Maurya
Period, Varanasi, 1994, pp. 53-54.
22. Irfan Habib, ‘Pursuing the History of Indian Technology-Premodern modes of
transmission of Power’, delivered at the Rajiv Bambawale Memorial Lectures,
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 4 April 1990, pp.17-40, published in
Social Scientist, Vol.20 (Nos. 3-4), Delhi, March-April 1992, pp. 6, 13.
23. B. Sree Padma, ‘Ancient South India: Its Textile Industry and Trade’, Indica,
Vol.29, Bombay, March 1992, No. 1, p.2.
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(c.1200-1650 A.D.)’ in Interaction between Indian and Central Asian Science and
Technology in Medieval Times, Vol.II, Delhi, 1990, pp.139.
25. Irfan Habib, ‘Capacity of Technological Change in Mughal India’, in Technology
in Ancient and Medival India, eds. Aniruddha Ray and S.K. Bagchi, Delhi, 1986, p.
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26. S.P. Verma, ‘Technology in Mughal India –Evidence of Mughal Painting’, in
Technology in Ancient and Medival India, eds. Aniruddha Ray and S.K. Bagchi,
Delhi, 1986, p. 21.
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South Indian Textile Production’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the
Orient, Vol. XXVIII, Part III, October, Leiden (The Netherlands), 1985, p 299.
28. Irfan Habib, ‘Medieval Technology: Exchanges between India and the Islamic
World’, presented at the UNESCO Symposium on the ‘Role of the Arab and Islamic
Civilization in the History of Mankind’, Kuwait, 17-20 December 1984, published
in Aligarh Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.II, No. 2, 1985, pp.214-218.
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(XI) (a) Courses taught at Under Graduate Level: Ancient Indian History at B.A.
(Part-I) level from 1990-1998, Taught Ancient India (Survey) since 1997 at
B.A. Final Level till 7th
October 2008.
(b) Courses taught at Post-Graduate Level: Technology and Society in India
1200 to 1850, Economic History of India, 1757-1914, History of Working Class
till 1947, European Feudalism, The Dawn of the Iron Age: Vedic and Later
Vedic Societies and Proto-Dravidian Cultures.
(c) Administrative positions held.
1. Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research, under Ministry
of Human Resource Development (Government of India), New Delhi since
8 October, 2008 till date.
2. Coordinator B.A Programme, Centre for Distance Education, AMU
Aligarh since 6 May 2006.
3. Assistant Proctor, AMU, Aligarh 20-10.1996to 09.02.1999,
4. Warden, Sir Syed Hall (North) (a) 13.01.1993 to 03.12.1993,
(b) Warden, Sir Syed Hall (North) 01.11.2002 to 18.01.2004
(d) Other Academic Assignments:
1. Delivered a Lecture on ‘Dutch sources for the history of Shan Jahan’ in an
International colloquim on ‘Documentary Sources and the Padshahnama
Translation Project, THE HISTORY OF SHAH JAHAN’, at India International
Centre, New Delhi, 9-11 August, 1990. It was organized by Dr. Wayne Begley,
American Institute of Indian Studies, New Delhi.
2. Delivered symposium lecture on ‘The Economic History of Bihar: Problems
and Prospects’ in the fourth session of Bihar Itihas Parishad, Rajgir, 28-29
March 1992.
3. Organised an exhibition of ‘Mughal Miniatures: The Reign of Akbar, An
Illustrated History’, November 1991 in collaboration with Prof S.P. Verma and
Dr. Mohd. Afzal Khan, under the auspices of Centre of Advanced Study in
History, A.M.U., Aligarh.
(XII) Membership of Academic Associations:
1. Elected Member, Executive Committee, U.P. History Congress, 1997-99, 1999-
2001, 2001-2003, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.
2. Joint Secretary, Aligarh Historians Society, since 1998.
3. Member of the Indian History Congress, since 1982
4. Member of Urban History Association of India, since 1982.
5. Member of Bihar Itihas Parishad, 1992.
6. Member of U.P. History Congress, since 1990.
7. Member of Association for the study of History and Archaeology (ASHA)
since 1995.
(XIII) Educational Qualifications:
(a) M.A. , M.Phil. & Ph.D.
(b) Language/s Known:
Dutch, Sanskrit and Persian
(c) Orientation / Refresher Course/s Attended:
(i) Orientation Course, Academic Staff College, A.MU., Aligarh
27.03.1989- 22.04.1989.
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(ii) Refresher Course in History, Academic Staff College, A.M.U., Aligarh,
July 24 to 23rd
August 1995.
(iii) Refresher Course in History, Academic Staff College, AMU, Aligarh,
23-7-2001 to 12-8-2001.
(iv) Refresher Course in Environmental Studies (Interdisciplinary)
Academic Staff College, A.M.U., Aligarh, 22-8-2001 to 11-9-2001.
(d) Teaching Experience 28 Years at the graduate and Post-Graduate
levels:
1. Professor since October, 2012
2. Associate Professor since 21st February 1999
3. Lecturer, 20 February, 1989-20 February, 1999
4. Senior Research Assistant, 16 February 1989-20 February 1989
(K.A.S.M. ISHRAT ALAM)