3月15日13時に第15期公募情報を公開いたしました。
4月1日13時より応募者登録サイトへの登録が可能です。
Information on the 15th call for applications was opened at 13:00 on 15 March.
Applicants can register on the registration website from 1 April at 13:00.
Where Land and Sea Meet: Port Towns in the Early Modern South India
Since olden times, there have been many port towns along the coast of the Indian Subcontinent. Among them we find some towns flourishing as great trading centres where people came from different littoral areas along the Indian Ocean and from various regions within the Subcontinent. Such port towns have been important arenas for human activity where a variety of people have developed mutual contacts and exchanged not only goods, but also, for example, ideas and knowledge. In this seminar, I will first introduce how these port towns have been situated within existing historical frameworks, and present an idea for possible approaches beyond these works. Then, I will focus on the case of the Coromandel Coast in the seventeenth century and examine the features of society of the early modern port towns.