1 Curriculum Vitae Name: Sanjay SUBRAHMANYAM Place and date of birth and citizenship: New Delhi, India; 21 May 1961; US and Indian citizen Professional position and corresponding address: Distinguished Professor and Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences Department of History University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473 USA Tel : + 310-825-3376 (office) Fax : + 310-206-9630 Personal address: 10960 Wellworth Avenue, Apt # 303 Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA University Degrees: - Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Economics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, 1980, 1st Division. - Master of Arts, Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 1982 (1st position and Gold Medal, University of Delhi). - Ph.D. in Economics (Economic History), University of Delhi, submitted 1986, defended 1987; Thesis: “Trade and the Regional Economy of South India, c. 1550-1650.” Academic appointments: - Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences, UCLA, July 2014 – - Chaire internationale, « Histoire globale de la première modernité », Collège de France, Paris, 2017 - - Professeur invité à contrat pluriannuel, Collège de France, Paris, 2014-17 - Chair, “Histoire globale de la première modernité,” Collège de France, Paris, 2013-14. - Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian History, University of California at Los Angeles, July 2004 – June 2014 - Director, Center for India and South Asia, UCLA, July 2005 – June 2011. - Professor of Indian History and Culture, University of Oxford, 2002-2004. - Directeur d’études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1995-2002 (position resigned in 2004). - Professor of Economic History, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, July 1993 to September 1995. 2 - Reader (Associate Professor) in Economic History, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, January 1989 - July 1993. - Foundation Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, July-December 1988. - Visiting Lecturer, Economics and South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 1987 - May 1988. - Research Associate, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, March 1983 - September 1987. - Lecturer in Economics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, 1982. Major Awards and Honours: - Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, 2002-2008. - Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009. - Infosys Humanities Prize, 2012. - Kluge Chair in the Countries and Cultures of the South, Library of Congress, Washington DC, March-July 2013. - D. Litt. Honoris Causa, University of Calcutta, 2015. - Elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, 2016. - Doctorat honoris causa, Université catholique de Louvain, February 2017. - Prix Martine Aublet, Musée de Quai Branly, Paris, September 2018. - Dan David Prize for History, 2019. Languages: Tamil, Hindi & Urdu, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch (reading), and Persian (reading). Professional Service (partial list): - Co-founder, Centre for Development Economics, University of Delhi, 1992. - Founder and co-administrator, Indian Economic and Social History Annual Lecture, New Delhi, 2007 – - Member, Appointments Committee, Boden Chair in Sanskrit, University of Oxford, 2004. - Member, International Institute Dean Search Committee, UCLA, 2005. - Chair, History Department Seminar Committee, UCLA, 2006-8. - Joint Series Editor (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Sheldon Pollock), “South Asia Across the Disciplines,” consortium of University of California Press, Columbia University Press and University of Chicago Press, 2007-2010. - Chair, UCLA-Paris Exchange Program, 2010-12 (member since 2005). - Member, International Advisory Panel, Endangered Archives Programme, British Museum, 2012-16. - Member, Advanced Grants Panel, History (SH6), European Research Council, Brussels, 2016-17. Short-term appointments: - Foundation Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, July 1988 - January 1989. - Maître de conférences associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May-June 1988. - Associate Professor, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, June-July 1988; May 1992. 3 - Visiting Fellow, Centre for Indian Ocean Regional Studies, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, May-July 1990. - Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, May-July 1992. - Directeur d’études associé, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, November 1992; May 1993. - Union Pacific Visiting Professor of Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September-December 1994. - Visiting Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September- October 1998. - Visiting Professor, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, September 2000. - Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, October 2000-July 2001. - Visiting Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, September-October 2001. - Directeur d’études associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, November-December 2005. - William Andrews Clark Professor, 2006-7, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, UCLA. - Directeur d’études associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, November-December 2011. - Robert Lehman Visiting Professor, Villa I Tatti, Florence, June 2018. Honorary and Editorial Functions: - Joint Managing Editor, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Delhi, 2001-2013. - Member, Editorial Board, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Delhi, 2014 - - Member, Academia de Marinha, Lisbon, Portugal. - Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. - Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Early Modern History. - Editorial Advisor, Ler História (Lisbon). - Editorial Advisor, History and Memory (Jerusalem). PhD supervision - José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim, “Judeus e cristãos-novos de Cochim: História e memória (1500-1662),” PhD in Portuguese Studies, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2002 (co-advisor). - Corinne Lefèvre, “Pouvoir et élites dans I’Empire moghol de Jahangir (r. 1605-27),” PhD, Histoire et civilisations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2005. - Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, “Texts, Tombs and Memory: The Migration, Settlement, and Formation of a Learned Muslim Community in Fifteenth-Century Gujarat,” PhD, Department of History, UCLA, 2012. - Rajashree Mazumder, “Constructing the Indian Immigrant to Colonial Burma, 1885- 1948,” PhD, Department of History, UCLA, 2013. - Nir Shafir, “The Road from Damascus: Circulation and the Redefinition of Islam in the Ottoman Empire, 1620-1720,” PhD, Department of History, UCLA, 2016 (co- advisor). 4 - Subah Dayal, “Landscapes of Conquest: Patrons and Narratives in the seventeenth- century Deccan c. 1636 – 1687,” PhD, Department of History, UCLA, 2016. - Cenan Pirani, “The Military Economy of Seventeenth Century Sri Lanka: Rhetoric and Authority in a Time of Conquest,” PhD, Department of History, UCLA, 2016. - Naveena Naqvi, “Writing the Inter-Imperial World in Afghan North India: ca. 1774- 1857,” PhD, Department of History, UCLA, 2018 (co-advisor). Publications I. Books and Edited Books: 1. The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, South Asian Series, no. 45, 1990, pp. x + 401. 2. (Ed.) Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. viii + 276. 3. Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1700, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. xix + 269 (Revised Portuguese translation: Comércio e Conflito: A Presença Portuguesa no Golfo de Bengala, 1500-1700, Lisbon: Edições 70, 1994, pp. 295). 4. (with V. Narayana Rao and David Shulman), Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka-period Tamil Nadu, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. xvi + 350. 5. The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History, London and New York: Longman, 1993, pp. xiii + 320; 2nd edition Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, xviii + 340 (Translations: Portuguese: O Império Asiático Português, 1500-1700: Uma História Política e Económica, DIFEL Editora, Lisbon, 1996, pp. xi + 447; Chinese: Putaoya diguo zai yazhou, 1500-1700: Zhengzhi he jingji shi, Macau: Comissão Territorial de Macau para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1997, pp. 324; French: L’Empire portugais d’Asie, 1500-1700: Histoire économique et politique, Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1999, pp. 385; 2nd edition, Paris: Seuil, 2013). Recipient of the Prémio D. João de Castro, Portugal, 1994. 6. (Ed.) Money and the Market in India, 1100-1700, Delhi: Oxford University Press, (Series: Themes in Indian History), 1994, pp. ix + 316. 7. (Ed.) Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World (Series: An Expanding World, Vol. 8), Aldershot: Variorum Books, 1996, pp. xxvi + 397. 8. (Ed. with Kaushik Basu) Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India’s Secular Identity, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1996, pp. xii + 244. 9. (Ed. with Burton Stein) Institutions and Economic Change in South Asia, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. x + 314. 10. The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. xix + 400 (Spanish translation, Vasco de Gama, Barcelona: Crítica, 1998, pp. 366; 5 Portuguese translation, A Carreira e a Lenda de Vasco da Gama, Lisbon: CNCDP, 1998, pp. xvi + 487;