This seminar was organised at the Fundacao Oriente on Feb 11-12, 2026. Among the speakers were:
- Business Brahmins of Goa, 1450-1750 (Nagendra Rao, Goa Univ.) - Jesuit Agency in a Global Trading System: Procurators and their Networks in the Indian Ocean World, 1600-1650 (Diogo Pereira, CHAM) - The House of Mercy and the Portuguese Administration (Mariana Boscariot, Manchester Univ) - Early Modern Capitalism in the Coromandel: The Case of Madras c 1680-1820 (Rohit Prabu) - Imperial Connoisseurship and Diplomatic Exchange: Reconstructing the Merchant-Envoy in Mughal-Safavid Correspondence (Shounak Ghosh, Univ of Manchester) - Inheritance in Flux: Transition of Armenian Wills in the Mayor's Court of Madras in the EIghteenth Century (Santanu Sengupta) - Commercial Lives and the Bounds of Imperial Institutions, c 1500-1550 (Edmond Smith, Manchester Univ) - Horsing Around: Equestrian Trade and the Making of the Mughal Empire (Pratyay Nath, Ashoka Univ) - The Ganga River and Mughal India: Economy, Environment and Empire, c. 1500-1800 (Murari Jha, Ahmedabad Univ) - Estuaries of Exchange: Bharuch and the Hidden Cargoes of the Indian Ocean (Keynote, Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt Univ) - The 'Region' in its Myriad Avatars: International Trade, Imperial Politics and Local Capital in Mughal India (Keynote, Prof Lakshmi Subramanian) - Far from a 'Shadow': Rethinking Empire through Portuguese Bengal, c.1500-1640 (Radhika Chadha) - A Siege on the Indian Ocean: Mughals, Portuguese, and Arakanase in Chittagong, 1666 (Bidisha Sengupta) - The Mughal on Water: Mughal Subahdars through the Dutch Archives in Seventeenth-Century Bengal (Byapti Sur) - A 'Hybrid' Merchant Fleet/ Portuguese Shipping in Asia as Seen through the Portuguese Prizes of the Dutch East India Company (Seventeenth Century) (Andre Murteira) - Of Bahr-o-Bar: Reflections on Sovereign Claims Over the Sea in the Western Indian Ocean Region (Aasim Khwaja) - Pardesi Jews of Malabar in the Early Modern Global Trade (1450-1750): Continuity and Changes (Lija Joseph) - Structure and Agency in the Commercial Networks on the Coromandel Coast in the Seventeenth Century (Radhika Seshan) - Edmond Smith (closing comments) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Frederick Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا _/ AUDIO https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha _/ http://goa1556.in +91-9822122436 784 Saligao Goa _/ Goanet :: 30 years of discussions. [email protected] _/ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
