Darryl D'Monte




			ACADEMIC BACKGROUND :

			B.A. HISTORY HONS. Calcutta University

			M.A. HISTORY, Calcutta University

			Ph.D , Viswa Bharati Santiniketan under the supervision
			of the late Dr. Ashin Dasgupta.

			POSITIONS HELD :

			Lecturer , Department of History, Viswa Bharati,
			Santiniketan, 1982 - 89

			Senior lecturer , Department of History,
			Calcutta University, 1989 - 94

			Reader , Department of History, Calcutta University, 1994-date

			Special Guest at the National Center for South Asian Studies
			6th Post Graduate Honours Residential Workshop,
			Melbourne, 6-8 July 2000

			Visiting Teacher Fellow, Department of History,
			University of Baroda,1998

			Resource Person, Aligarh Muslim University, 1990-91-92

			Currently Reader, Department of History, University of Calcutta















			PUBLICATIONS :

			Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast.
			Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996.

			Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World. Essays in Honour of Ashin Dasgupta.
			Edited with Rudrangshu Mukherji. Oxford University Press.

			Medieval Seafarers. Roli Books. Delhi,1999.

			The French East India Company and the Trade of the Indian Ocean.
			Essays by the late Dr. Indrani Ray edited with an Introduction by
			Dr. Laksmi Subramanian. Manohar, Delhi, 1999.

			“The Reinvention of a Tradition : Nationalism, Carnatic Music and the
			Madras Academy, 1900-1947”, Indian Economy and Social History Review,
			No. 2, 1999.

			“India's International Economy”, The Indian Historical Review, Vol. XXV, No. 2, 1999.

			“Alternate Approaches to Maritime India”,
			Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.XXXIII No. 2,1996

			“Rabindranath Tagore and the Crisis of Personal Identity in Colonial India”,
			in Rajat Kanta Ray (Edited)

			Mind, Body and Society, Life and Mentality in Colonial Bengal.
			Oxford University Press, 1996.

			“The Eighteenth Century Social Order in Surat ;
			a Reply and an Excursus on the Riots of 1788 and 1795”,
			Modern Asian Studies. 25.2.1991.

			“Banias and the British : The Role of Indigenous Credit in the Process of
			Imperial Expansion in Western India in the Second Half of the Eighteenth
			Century”, Modern Asian Studies. 21.3.1987

			“Capital and Crowd in a declining Asian Port City.
			The Anglo Bania Order and the Surat Riots of 1795”,
			Modern Asian Studies 19.2.1985

			“The Master, the Muse and the Nation :
			The Reification of Colonial Modernity in India”, ( South Asia, 2001)

			Of Pirates and Potentates : Jurisdiction and the Construction of Piracy in the
			Indian Ocean, The UTS, Maritime Review ( Sydney ) Volume 6, No.2, 2000











			In Press :

			The Eighteenth Century Revisited :
			Essays in Honour of Professor Amales Tripathi.
			( K.P.Bagchi, Calcutta )

			Voicing the Nation, The Reinvention of a Tradition.
			(To be considered by Permanent Black, Delhi)
				TOP