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Radhika Seshan Editor & Author

Radhika Seshan is Associate Professor at the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India. Her area of specialisation is medieval Indian history, with a focus on economic history, especially maritime and urban history. In recent years, she has also been working on travel accounts and the constructions of the East therein. She recently organised a panel at the World Economic History Congress in Japan. Apart from publishing many papers in national and international journals and editing five books, she has authored Trade and Politics on the Coromandel Coast: Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries (2012) and Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India: Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries (2013). She is joint editor (with Professor Rila Mukherjee) of the series ‘Issues in History’, in which she edited the book Convergence: Rethinking India’s Past (2014).