M.Phil.(JNU)
Ph.D. (London)
(i) economic history of early miodern India;
(ii) problems of the transition from late medieval to early-colonial in India;
(iii) ecology, subsistence, and crises in pre-colonial India; and
(iv) the comparative history of economic development in an Asian perspective.
Thirty years of teaching, research and research supervision
Commonwealth Scholar at the University of London,
Smuts Visiting Fellow to the University of Cambridge
" Merchants and Peasants: A Study in the Structure of Local Trade in Grain in late Eighteenth Century Bengal ", Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 23, no.4, October-December, 1986 [reprinted in Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Merchants, Markets and State in Early Modern India. Delhi, OUP, 1990]
" Agricultural Production, Social Participation and Domination in Late Eighteenth Century Bengal: Towards an Alternative Explanation", Journal of Peasant Studies, vol.17, no.1, October 1989.
" Crises and Survival: Ecology, Subsistence and Coping in Eighteenth Century Bengal", The Calcutta Historical Journal. Vol. xviii, no. 1, January-June 1996.
" Peasant Production and Agrarian Commercialism in a Rice-Growing Economy: Some Notes on a Comparative Perspective and the Case of Bengal in the Eighteenth Century", in Peter Robb (ed.), Meanings of Agriculture: Essays in South Asian History and Economics, Delhi, OUP, 1996.
" Commercialization, Tribute and the Transition from Late Mughal to Early Colonial in India" in The Medieval History Journal, vol.6 no. 2, July-December 2003, a special issue on Tributary Empires in History: From Antiquity to the Late Medieval (ed.) C.A. Bayly and Peter Bang.
Society, Economy and the Market: Commercialisation in Rural Bengal, c. 1760-1800, Delhi, Manohar Publications, 2000.
(ed.) Rethinking a Millennium: Perspectives on Indian History from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century, New Deli, Aakar Books, 2008