G. A. Nadri (Leiden University)

Mr. G. A. Nadri 
History Department, Leiden University

Mail address:
62 Boerhaavelaan
2334 ES, Leiden, the Netherlands 

phone: 00-31-71-526-2556 
fax:   00-31-71-527-2652
email: gahmadnadri@hotmail.com 
url:   http://www.tanap.net/content/universities/current_research/current_research_detail.cfm?ArticleID=53 

description of work:

My general research interest lies in the socio-economic history of 
early-modern South Asia. Culling information from a variety of English, 
Dutch and Persian sources, I have been writing research papers on a wide 
range of issues and aspects of merchants and their social and commercial 
world, European companies and maritime trade, piracy and labour market. My 
PhD thesis, which is nearing completion, focuses on the nature of 
political economy of Gujarat in the eighteenth century. This is a detailed 
study of I) the temporal and spatial dimensions of Asian commercial 
activities in Gujarat, ii) the dynamics of agricultural and craft 
productions in that region, iii) the implications of European trade for 
the economy and iv) local gentry and the nature of consumer demand. At a 
broader level, the thesis seeks to contribute to ongoing debate on the 
nature of the eighteenth century in Indian/Asian economies. It also 
analyses the nature of engagement between trade and politics and 
delineates and distinguishes the processes of colonial intervention in 
western India from those of Bengal and south-eastern India.

Keywords: Gujarat, maritime trade, Indian Ocean world, European companies