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Ranabir Chakravarti

Ranabir Chakravarti
Retired Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Historical Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
115
Off. Phone
011-26704565
Residence
011-2674 2150
Email
ranabirc@mail.jnu.ac.in , ranabirchsjnu@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

M.A. (University of Calcutta)
Ph.D. (University of Calcutta) 

Areas of Interest/Specialization
Economic History of Early India and Indian Ocean Maritime History 
Experience

Teaching and research at University level since 1981 

Awards & Honours

1. Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: September 2005-- July, 2006.
2. Fellow in Residence, Netherlands Institute for advanced Study, Wassenaar, September 2009-- January, 2010.
3. Visiting Professor, Rabindranath Tagore Centre for Human Development, Kolkata January 2010-- July 2010.
4. President, Ancient India Section, Punjab Historical Conference, Patiala, 2011

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
1. "Nakhudas and Nauvittakas: Ship-owning Merchants in the West Coast of India (AD 1000-1500", Journal of the Economic adn Social Hisotry of the Orient, XLIII, 2000: 34-64.

2. "Politics and Society in India (AD 300-1000)", in K. Satchidanda Murty ed., Life, Thought and Culture in India (c. AD 300-1000, New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilization, 2002: 53-171.

3. "Natural Resources and Human Settlements: Perceiving the Environment in India", in James Heitzman and Wofgang Schenkluhn eds., The World in the Year 1000", New York: University Press of America: 48-65.

4. "Equestrian Demand and Dealers: The Early Indian Scenario ( up to c. 1300)", Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz, Roderich Ptak adn Angela Schottenhammer eds., Horses in Asia: History, Trade and Culture, Vienna: Osterreische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009: 145-60.

5. "Agrarian Technologies in Early Medieval India (c. AD 500-1300)", Medieval History Journal, XI.2, 2008: 229-58 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
1. Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society, New Delhi: Manohar, 2007 (revised and enlarged second edition.

2. Exploring Early India, New Delhi: MacMillan, 2010

3. Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty First Century: A View from the Margins (one of the Editors), New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007