Dr. Ishrat Alam

1. ‘The Dutch East India Company Communication Network Over Land and Sea”, paper presented in a special panel on “History of Information and Communication Technology in India through the Ages” sponsored by the Directorate of I.T and Bio-technology, Govt. of Karanataka in the 64rth session of Indian History of Congress, Mysore, 28-30 December, 2003, published in Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Dipankar Sinha and Varnita Bagchi, eds.Webs of History, Information, Communication & Technology from Early to Post – colonial India, Manohar Publisher and Distributors, Delhi, 2005 pp – 119-130. 2. “Jewish Merchants in the Mughal Empire”, Proceedings of Indian History Congress (65th session, Bareilly, 2004), Delhi, 2005, pp. 267-276. 3. “The Dutch East India company Trade at Vengurla in the Seventeenth Century”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (64th session, Mysore, 2003). Patna, 2004, pp. 646-666. 4. “ Medieval Kalinjar: An Economic Profile”, Proceedings of Indian History Congress (63rd session, Amritsar, 2002), Kolkata, 2003, pp. 308-315. 5. ”Textile Technology in Medieval India” , presented as Presidential address in the Medieval section of 19th annual session of Paschim Banga Itihas Sansad, 24-26 January, 2003, at Sripat Singh college Jia Ganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal., published in Itihas Anusandhan, (in Bengali), Kolkatta, 2004, pp. 51-85. 6. “Dutch Trade in Awadh: Farmans of Shahjahan and Aurangzeb”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (Bhopal, 2001), Kolkata,2002, pp. 256-262. 7. “ Technological Exchanges between India and Iran in Ancient and Medieval Times”, presented in a special panel on “India and Iran Historical Relationship”, in the 62nd session of Indian History Congress, Bhopal, 2001, published in Irfan Habib, ed. A Shared Heritage: The Growth of Civilizations in India and Iran, Delhi, 2002, pp. 77-98. 8. “Dutch Trade in Awadh: Farmans of Shahjahan and Aurangzeb”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (62nd session, Bhopal, 2001), Kolkata, 2002, pp. 256-262. 9. “ Dutch Trade at Awadh in the Seventeenth Century”, A.K. Sinha, ed., Perspectives in Indian History, Delhi, 2004, pp.134-150. 10. “ Smallpox, and its Treatment in India - - A Pre modern History”, presented in a special panel on “ History of Medicine and Health” in the Millennium (61st) session of Indian History Congress, 2-4 January 2001, Calcutta University, Kolkota, published in Deepak Kumar, ed., Disease and Medicine in India, A Historical Overview, Delhi, 2001, pp.85-93. 11. “ Sericulture in India in the 16th and 17th Centuries”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (60th session Calicut, 1999), Aligarh, 2000, pp. 339-352 . 12. “Diamond Mining and Trade in South India in the 17th century”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (58th session, Bangalore, 1997), Aligarh 1998, pp. 311-328; published also in Medieval History Journal, ed. Harbans Mukhia, 3(2), July-December, 2000, pp. 291-310. 13 .“Malda in the seventeenth century—An Economic profile”, presented in a National Seminar on “Urbanization in Medieval India” jointly held by the Asiatic Society of Bengal and Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, Calcutta, September 17-19, 1997, published in Pratna Samiksha, ed. Gautam Sengupta, Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Govt. of West Bengal, Vol. 6-8, 1997-1999, , pp. 109-120. 14. “Conditions of Gujarat in mid 18th century”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (58th session, Bangalore, 1997), Aligarh, 1998, pp. 391-399. 15. “Mahmudi-Rupee Exchange and Rates on Bills in the Seventeenth Century”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress”, (57th session, Chennai, 1996), Calcutta, 1997, pp. 366-374. 16. “The Dutch East India Company’s version of the putting out system in Coromandel, 17th century”, Proceedings of Indian History Congress, (56th session Calcutta, 1995), Calcutta, 1996, pp. 403-412; also published in the Journal of East West Maritime Relations, Study Group for East West Maritime Relations, The Middle Eastern Culture Centre in Japan, Japan, 1996, Vol.4, pp. 61-70. 17. “Rented Housing in Mughal India — The Dutch and English Experience”, K.M. Shrimali, ed. Reason and Archaeology, Association for the study of History and Archaeology, Delhi, 1998, pp. 153-158. 18. “Trade at Surat, 1648—Dutch Memoir”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (55th session, Aligarh, 1995), Aligarh, 1996, pp. 324-335. 19. “Saltpetre suppliers in Bihar and the Dutch East India Company: Analysis of a Dutch Enquiry into Fraud by its servants at Chhapra”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (54th session, Mysore, 1994), Delhi, 1995, pp.263-272. 20. “A Dutch Memoir of 1603 on Indian Textiles”, presented in a seminar on “Akbar and His Age’, held at the Centre of Advanced Study in History, Department of History, AMU, Aligarh, 9-11 October 1992, published in ed., Ifan Habib, Akbar and his India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp.294-297. 21. “Dutch imports of precious Metals into India in the First half of the 17th Century”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (53rd session, Warangal, 1993), Delhi 1994, pp.265-275. 22. “New light on Indigo Production Technology during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, A.J. Qaisar and S.P. Verma, eds. Art and Culture Felicitation Volume in honour of Professor S. Nurul Hasan, Jaipur, 1993, pp.120-126. 23. “Announcing Time-The Unique Method at Hayatnagar, 1676”, S.R. Sarma and Ishrat Alam, Procedings of the Indian History Congress, (52 session, Delhi, 1991-1992), Delhi, 1992, pp. 426-431. 24. “Credit transactions at Broach (1627-28): Papers of a Dutch Factor”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (51st session, Calcutta, 1990), Calcutta, 1991, pp. 300-307. 25. “Gujarat and Coromandel as Rival Exporters in the 17th Century – A Study of Dutch documents”, a summary published in the Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (Golden Jubilee Session, Gorakhpur, 1989), Gorakhpur, 1990, pp.356-7 26. “Iron Manufactures in Golconda in the 17th Century”, Girija Pande and Jan A. Geijerstam, eds. Tradition and Innovation in the History of Iron Making, An Indo-European Perspective, Nainital, 2002, pp.98-111. 27. “ Cotton Technology in India Down to the 16th Century”, A. Rahman, ed., India’s Interaction with China, Central and West Asia, Vol-III(2), , Delhi, 2002, pp.445-463. 28. “ Textiles Tools as Depicted in Ajanta and Mughal Paintings”, paper presented in a “ Seminar on Technology in Medieval India-Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century”, September, 1984, Calcutta, Aniruddha Ray and SK Bagchi, eds. Technology in Ancient and Medieval India, Delhi, 1986, pp. 29. Contributed five chapters in the forthcoming volume on History of Technology in Medieval India, ed. Harbans Mukhia, INSA, Delhi.(in press)

Historiography and Sources:

Published:

1. “ Names for India in Ancient Indian Texts and Inscriptions”, paper presented in a special Panel on “Idea of India”, in 63rd Session of Indian History Congress, Amritsar, 28-30 December 2002 published in Irfan Habib, ed. India- -Studies in the History of an Idea, Delhi, 2005, pp. 36-44. 2. Review article, “K.S. Mathew, ed., Mariners, Merchants and Ocean; Studies in Maritime History”, The Indian Historical Review, Vol. No. ,1998, pp. 121-132 . 3. “A popular Rebellion at Broach during the Reign of Aurangzeb: A Dutch Report”, A.K. Sinha, ed., Readings in History, Delhi, 2002, pp. 218-220 4. “Journal of Dircq van Adrichem and Tales of his Travel between Surat to Delhi (1662): An Assessment”, Proceedings of U.P. History Congress, Gorakhpur, 2001, pp. 130-149. 5. “Dutch Sources for the History of Bihar in 17h and 18th Centuries”, paper presented in a seminar on the “Sources of the History of Bihar 16 –17 Feb.1991, organized by the Department of History, Patna University, Patna, published in Journal of Historical Studies, Patna, 1995, Vol. I, pp. 11-23; published also in Readings in Indian History (Syed Hasan Askari Centrenary Volume), ed., B.K. Chaudhary, Patna, 2001, pp. 373-392.

Environment:

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1. “Dutch East India Company and Deforestation of the South-East Asia in the 17th Century”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (67th session 2007, Calicut,), Delhi, 2007.

Culture:

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1. “Cultural Dimensions of Globalization – Assessment of Impact of the Internet”, published in B.N. Patnaik and S. Imtiaz Hasnain, eds. Globalization: Language, Culture and Media (Proceedings of the Seminar), Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2005, pp. 201-207. 2. “National Integration and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan”, Muslim University Gazette, Vol. 25, No.4, 24 November 1979, Aligarh, pp. 4, 6,12. (VII) Citations 1. M.A. Al-Bakhit, L. Bazin and S.M. Gissoko, eds., History of Humanity, Scientific and Cultural Development, From the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, Vol. IV, UNESCO, London, 2000, p.402. 2. Peter Burke and Halil Inalcik, eds., History of Humanity,Scientific andCultural Development, From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Vol.V. UNESCO, Paris, 1999, pp. 3. Vijaya Ramaswamy, “ The genesis and historical role of the Master Weavers in South Indian Textile Production”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. XXVIII, Part III, October, Leiden (The Netherlands), 1985, p 299. 4. Irfan Habib, “Medieval Technology: Exchanges between India and the Islamic World”, presented at the UNESCO Symposium on the ‘Role of the Arab and Islamic Civilization in the History of Mankind’, Kuwait, 17-20 December 1984, published in Aligarh Journal of Oriental Studies, Vol.II, No. 2, 1985, pp.214-218. 5. Irfan Habib, “Capacity of Technological Change in Mughal India”, in Technology in Ancient and Medival India, eds. Aniruddha Ray and S.K. Bagchi, Delhi, 1986, p. 11 6. S.P. Verma, “Technology in Mughal India –Evidence of Mughal Painting”, in Technology in Ancient and Medival India, eds. Aniruddha Ray and S.K. Bagchi, Delhi, 1986, p. 21. 7. Irfan Habib, “Pursuing the History of Indian Technology-Premodern modes of transmission of Power”, delivered at the Rajiv Bambawale Memorial Lectures, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 4 April 1990, pp.17-40, published in Social Scientist, Vol.20 (Nos. 3-4), Delhi, March-April 1992, pp. 6, 13. 8. I.G. Khan, “Modes of Technology Transfer between India and Central Asia (c.1200-1650 A.D.)”, A. Rahman, ed. Interaction between Indian and Central Asian Science and Technology in Medieval Times, Vol.II, Delhi, 1990, pp.139. 9. B. Sree Padma, “Ancient South India : Its Textile Industry and Trade”, Indica, Vol.29, Bombay, March 1992, No. 1, p.2. 10. S. Najaf Haider, “Precious Metal Flows and Currency Circulation in the Mughal Empire”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol, 39, part 3, August, 1996 Leiden, p.330. 11. P. Shanmugam, “Textile Production during the Vijayanagar Rule”, History and Society Essays in Honour of Professor Kadhirvel, ed., K.A. Manikumar, Madras, 1996,pp. 43-49. 12 Kiran Singh, Textiles in Ancient India, from Indus Valley Civilization to Maurya Period, Varanasi, 1994, pp. 53-54. 13. A. Jan Qaisar and Som Prakash Verma, “The Miftah ul Fuzala: A study of an Illustrated Persian Lexicon”, Art and Culture, Painting and Perspective, Delhi. 2002, p.21. 14. Som Prakash Verma, “Ordinary Life in Mughal Painting”, Art and Culture, Painting and Perspective, Abhinav, Delhi, 2002, p.101. 15. Eugenia Vanina, Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India (Thirteenth-Eighteenth Centuries), Delhi, 2004, pp. 30-34. 16. Sunita Zaidi, “The Saga of Indian Silk”, in Silk The saga of India’s Fashion Fabric, Survive Magazine, February 2004, p.8. 17. Shireen Moosvi, “Domestic Service in Precolonial India, Bondage, Caste and Market”, in Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, ed. Domestic Service and the Formation of European Identity Understanding the Globalization of Domestic Work, 16th – 21st centuries, Oxford, 2005, p. 550. 18. D. N Jha, “Looking for a Hindu Identity”, General Presidents Address, 66th session, Indian History Congress, 28-30 January 2006, pp-5-6 19. D. N. Jha, “Looking for a Hindu Identity”, in Social Science Probings, Vol. 18, No. 1, June 2006, p.5. 20. S. Jaikishan, ‘Medieval Iron and steel Industry in Northern Telangana’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, (66th session Shantineketan 2005), Delhi, 2006, pp. 339-341. 21. S. Jaikishan, “Survey of Iron and Wootz Steel Production sites in Northrn Telangana”, Indian Journal of History of Science, 42.3, 2007, pp.445-460 (p.448). 22. S. Jaikishan and R. Balasubramaniam, “Material Evidences for Wootz Steel Production in Northern Telangana”, Indian Journal of History of Science, 42.3, 2007, pp.461-480 (pp.462, 464). 23. S. Jaikishan and R. Balasubramaniam, “Social Aspects of Wootz Steel Manufacture in Northern Telangana”, Indian Journal of History of Science, 42.3 , 2007, pp.481-491 (p.489).