Willem van Schendel (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

submitted: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 13:50:16 +0100 (MET)

Prof. Willem van Schendel,
Department of History, 
Erasmus University Rotterdam, 
P.O. Box 1738,
3000 DR Rotterdam, 
The Netherlands.

email: vanschendel@mgs.fhk.eur.nl
fax: 31 20 6756437
phone: 31 10 4082515;   31 10 4082486;   31 20 6719820.


Regional interests:

Bengal (Bangladesh, West Bengal)
Northeast India,
Tamil Nadu, 
Burma

Themes of recent/current research:

poverty, 
rural social structure,
peasant revolt,
ethnicity,
sericulture, silk industry,
smuggling, border studies.

Disciplines:

history,
comparative history,
anthropology.

also involved in:

International Centre for Bengal Studies (ICBS), which publishes
translations of work by social scientists from Bengali into English, and
from various languages into Bengali. ICBS, started in 1991, has branches
in Dhaka, Calcutta, Delhi, the Netherlands, the UK, the US/Canada, Japan,
Singapore and Australia/New Zealand. A list of publications can be sent on
request.