IN GOA LAST WEEK: Global Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Merchant Networks, Imperial Development and Institutional Transformation

[Frederick Noronha]

This seminar was organised at the Fundacao Oriente on Feb 11-12, 2026. Among the speakers were:

• Business Brahmins of Goa, 1450-1750 (Nagendra Rao, Goa Univ.)
• Jesuit Agency in a Global Trading System: Procurators and their Networks in the Indian Ocean World, 1600-1650 (Diogo Pereira, CHAM)
• The House of Mercy and the Portuguese Administration (Mariana Boscariot, Manchester Univ)
  
• Early Modern Capitalism in the Coromandel: The Case of Madras c 1680-1820 (Rohit Prabu)
• Imperial Connoisseurship and Diplomatic Exchange: Reconstructing the Merchant-Envoy in Mughal-Safavid Correspondence (Shounak Ghosh, Univ of Manchester)
• Inheritance in Flux: Transition of Armenian Wills in the Mayor's Court of Madras in the EIghteenth Century (Santanu Sengupta)
• Commercial Lives and the Bounds of Imperial Institutions, c 1500-1550 (Edmond Smith, Manchester Univ)
• Horsing Around: Equestrian Trade and the Making of the Mughal Empire (Pratyay Nath, Ashoka Univ)
  
• The Ganga River and Mughal India: Economy, Environment and Empire, c. 1500-1800 (Murari Jha, Ahmedabad Univ)
  
• Estuaries of Exchange: Bharuch and the Hidden Cargoes of the Indian Ocean (Keynote, Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt Univ)
• The 'Region' in its Myriad Avatars: International Trade, Imperial Politics and Local Capital in Mughal India (Keynote, Prof Lakshmi Subramanian)
• Far from a 'Shadow': Rethinking Empire through Portuguese Bengal, c.1500-1640 (Radhika Chadha)
• A Siege on the Indian Ocean: Mughals, Portuguese, and Arakanase in Chittagong, 1666 (Bidisha Sengupta)
  
• The Mughal on Water: Mughal Subahdars through the Dutch Archives in Seventeenth-Century Bengal (Byapti Sur)
• A 'Hybrid' Merchant Fleet/ Portuguese Shipping in Asia as Seen through the Portuguese Prizes of the Dutch East India Company (Seventeenth Century) (Andre Murteira)
• Of Bahr-o-Bar: Reflections on Sovereign Claims Over the Sea in the Western Indian Ocean Region (Aasim Khwaja)
• Pardesi Jews of Malabar in the Early Modern Global Trade (1450-1750): Continuity and Changes (Lija Joseph)
• Structure and Agency in the Commercial Networks on the Coromandel Coast in the Seventeenth Century (Radhika Seshan)
• Edmond Smith (closing comments)

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