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Sanjay Subrahmanyam

When three Gujarati merchants asked the British for help against the Dutch

Cauth, Tulsidas and Benidas wrote to the Padshah (ruler) and other high authorities in England asking for assistance in recovering looted goods from the Dutch.

Muzaffar Alam
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam
· Dec 26, 2022 · 07:30 pm
Sunil Kumar (1956-2021): A historian who was passionate about reading Delhi’s past from its present

His big book was ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286’.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam
· Jan 18, 2021 · 07:30 am
Sanjay Subrahmanyam: As November looms, US has done little to fix its dysfunctional political system

Two symptoms: the electoral college system and the two-party system.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam
· Aug 30, 2020 · 09:00 am

Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Will the Covid-19 pandemic prove a turning point in history?

It will be a world of lesser and greater, interdependent yet competing powers, some very close to empires, in an acceleration of the tendencies already visible.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam
· Jul 22, 2020 · 09:04 am