S Jeyaseela Stephen
S. Jeyaseela Stephen is Directeur, Institut pour études Indo-Européennes. He was Professor of Maritime History (2001-13) at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He is the author of numerous books including Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy: Sixteenth Eighteenth Centuries (2009); Oceanscapes: Tamil Textiles in the Early Modern World (2014); A Meeting of the Minds: European and Tamil Encounters in Modern Sciences, 1507-1857 (2016); Pondicherry under the French: Illuminating the...See more
S. Jeyaseela Stephen is Directeur, Institut pour études Indo-Européennes. He was Professor of Maritime History (2001-13) at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He is the author of numerous books including Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy: Sixteenth Eighteenth Centuries (2009); Oceanscapes: Tamil Textiles in the Early Modern World (2014); A Meeting of the Minds: European and Tamil Encounters in Modern Sciences, 1507-1857 (2016); Pondicherry under the French: Illuminating the Urban Landscape, 1674-1793 (2018); and Natural History Knowledge, Tamil Coast and the Atlantic Within Reach, 1639-1857 (2019). He received the best book prize for the year 1999 from the Government of Tamil Nadu. His books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, and Tamil languages. See less
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