Date:
Location:
"Ganga Global: Implications of the Ganga (Ganges) River’s Integration with the Global Maritime Economy during the Early Modern Period (c. 1600–1800)"
Speaker:
Murari Jha, WIGH Fellow; Assistant Professor, School of Historical Studies, Nalanda University, India.
Commentator:
Sunil Amrith, Director, Center for History and Economics; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies; Chair, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University.
Contact:
Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu
The paper is available a week ahead of time by request to jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu.
Chairs:
Sven Beckert, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Laird Bell Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.
Sugata Bose, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University.
Jean Comaroff, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology; Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
Charles S. Maier, Senior Adviser; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.
WIGH is a Research Cluster on Global Transformations.