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Biographical note
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA. His books include The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, Europe's India and Empires Between Islam and Christianity.An acerbic but highly respected historian. These essays are an absolute delight
- T. C. A. Srinivasa-Raghavan, Business Standard, New Delhi
A riveting read
- Srinath Raghavan, Caravan
The most brilliant promoter of the new history. Heretical and highly stimulating.
Books and Ideas
Subrahmanyam reminds us of the need for different prisms.
Times Literary Supplement
Subrahmanyam is an exemplary scholar. His knowledge of the subject is unsurpassed
Sunday Times (for The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama)
Subrahmanyam reminds us of the need for different prisms. His lucid insights deserve to be far better known
- Elizabeth Buettner, Times Literary Supplement (for Europe's India)
Covering an impressive geographical area and chronological span, this is an extraordinarily elegant study of individuals who lived at the intersection of cultures, religions, and political systems
- Laura Nenzi, American Historical Review (for Three Ways to Be Alien)
The essays collected here, some quite polemical - as in the lead text on the notion of India-as-civilization, or another, assessing such a literary totem as V. S. Naipaul - illustrate the breadth of Subrahmanyam's concerns, as well as the quality of his writing. Connected History considers what, exactly, is an empire, the rise of 'the West' (less of a place than an idea or ideology, he insists), Churchill and the Great Man theory of history, the reception of world literature and the itinerary of subaltern studies, in addition to personal recollections of life and work in Delhi, Paris and Lisbon, and concluding remarks on the practice of early-modern history and the framing of historical enquiry.