Just out: my review of Muzaffar Alam’s Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750 in EHR academic.oup.com/ehr/article-ab…

Another review just out: Scott Kugle, Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean in the Journal of Islamic Studies: academic.oup.com/jis/article-ab…

#NewPublication #IndianOcean #India #Iran #Ottoman #EastAfrica #Mecca #Trade #RedSea #Kerala #Maritime #portcities Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 Sanjay Subrahmanyam Univ of Texas Pr 2024 utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328774/…

"A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History" by Edward A. Alpers & Thomas F. McDow is a guide to teaching Indian Ocean histories for the first time and a resource to reinvigorate existing courses. Read the free intro! #Education #History ow.ly/ZvuN50QStE4

"Mouros and Rumes: Portuguese Geographic Imagination in the Indian Ocean" Johanna Rozakis-Siu, Princeton University, Zoom Registration: history.princeton.edu/news-events/ev…

Happy to be part of this special issue with South Asian Studies ! Thanks ayesha and Daud Ali for organizing the workshop in 2022 where many of these conversations took place.

Here’s the link to 50 free online copies to my recent article ‘Historical Convergences and Region Making in Sultanate Gujarat’ in South Asian Studies Thanks for reading! tandfonline.com/eprint/MRGQGJA…

Join us for the Webinar Series" INDIAN OCEAN and Beyond OUTWARD BOUND FROM GUJARAT - From Golkonda to Siam: Secret Letters, Envelopes, and Diplomatic Crisis in the Mughal Port-city " with Subah Dayal, Assistant Professor, New York University. Friday, May 31, 2024, 6:00 PM(IST)

Bodleian Library manuscripts can now be downloaded as PDFs!! roger-pearse.com/weblog/2024/05…

My latest column in Off Centre for Scroll.in Carved in stone: Gujarat’s rich #cosmopolitan legacy in a 15th-century tomb complex scroll.in/article/108211… #earlymodernworld #fifteenthcentury #monuments naresh fernandes Jyoti Gulati Balachandran Oxford Academic Williams History Department Williams College

I just received Tunç Şen’s book on astrology in the Ottoman Empire. I look forward to reading it soon. I also salute the author and the publisher for NOT using the Timurid mirza Iskandar’s horoscope on the cover. :) That painting dominated our imagination for decades.

It's coming. Then the second volume Brill MidEast Africa brill.com/edcollbook/tit…

CFP: From Coast to Coast: Folklore and the Cultural Lives of the Western Indian Ocean. L’Orientale University of Naples, 20–21 Nov 2025. We invite papers on oral, performative, literary & material traditions:

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/158390…

📢 Job Opportunity! The History department at the University of Iowa invites applications for a position in the history of South Asia (time period open) at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor, to begin August 2026. careers.historians.org/jobs/?keywords…

CFP: Exploring the Sacred: People, Place and Power in the Islamic Indian Ocean. 04 Dec 2025 - 05 Dec 2025. Venue: National University of Singapore: ari.nus.edu.sg/events/explori…

I will be delivering a talk on Lin Zexu and his legacy in New Delhi this Friday (September 12).

Thrilled to share that my book, Boundaries of Belonging, is coming out with Cambridge University Press in April. It traces how belonging was defined and contested, how loyalties shifted, and how these dynamics shaped everyday life and imperial politics in the Ottoman world.

Book panel, Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World (Oxford University Press, 2024). Zoom Registration Link: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regist… For more information on the book, please: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Counting down the days until 2026, some of the best historians of early modern South Asia are dropping new Mughal history books & I can’t wait (writing deadlines for 2025 feel differently)!