Circumambulations in South Asian History - Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff

An exciting and thought-provoking volume, written by a small number of outstanding scholars on colonial and medieval Indian history, ethnohistory and the new military history of South Asia, a tribute thinkable to Professor Dirk Kolff.

About the author

Jos Gommans, Ph.D. (1994) in South Asian History, Leiden University, teaches history at the Kern Institute of South and Central Asian Studies at Leiden University. He has mainly published on medieval and early-modern Indian history including The Rise of the Indo Afghan Empire (Brill, 1995) and Mughal Warfare (Routledge, 2002).
Om Prakash, Ph.D. (1967) in Economic History, University of Delhi, teaches Economic History at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Has published extensively on European Expansion, Indian Ocean trade and Indian monetary and economic history in the early modern period. Major books include The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal 1630-1720 (Princeton, 1985) and European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-colonial India (Cambridge, 1998).

Product details

• Assisted by: Omar Prakash Chouhan (Editor), Jos J. L. Gommans (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2003
• EAN: 9789004131552
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13155-2
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 835 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous