Ghulam Nadri

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Leiden University, 2007
phone: 404-413-6387
e-mail: gnadri@gsu.edu

Ghulam A. Nadri specializes in the history of early modern Gujarat (western India) and studies its society and economy in the larger framework of South Asian and the Indian Ocean world history. He obtained his Ph.D. in History in September 2007 from Leiden University, The Netherlands. He taught history of Medieval South Asia and modern European history at a Delhi University college between 1998 and 2002. Besides his book Eighteenth-Century Gujarat: the Dynamics of Its Political Economy, he has published several research papers and book reviews in different journals, books and proceedings. Currently, he is working on his monograph project ‘Indigo in South Asia, 1500-1900’. His teaching interests are empire and economy in South Asian history, and commerce and culture in the Indian Ocean.

Selected Publications

Eighteenth-Century Gujarat: the Dynamics of Its Political Economy, 1750-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2009).

"Exploring the Gulf of Kachh: Regional Economy and Trade in the Eighteenth Century," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 51, no. 3, 2008, pp. 460-86.

"The Dutch Intra-Asian Trade in Sugar in the Eighteenth Century," International Journal of Maritime History, 20, no. 1, 2008, pp. 63-96.

"The Maritime Merchants of Surat: a Long-term Perspective," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 50, no. 2, 2007, pp. 235-58.

"VOC’s Engagement with Piracy in Western India in the Eighteenth Century: Perceptions and the Construction of Social Identities" in Nigel Worden, ed., Contingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World, University of Cape Town, 2007, pp. 172-83.

"Commercial World of Mancherji Khurshedji and the Dutch East India Company: A Study of Mutual Relationships," Modern Asian Studies, 41, no. 2, 2007, pp. 315-42.