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

centuries, Oxford, 2005, p. 550.

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.

17. M.A. Al-Bakhit, L. Bazin and S.M. Gissoko, eds., History of Humanity, Scientific

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.

24. I.G. Khan, ‘Modes of Technology Transfer between India and Central Asia

(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.

27. Vijaya Ramaswamy, ‘The genesis and historical role of the Master Weavers in

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)