Murari Kumar Jha
South Asia
Curriculum vitae
1977 | born in Kahua in the Darbhanga district of Bihar, India |
… | BA in history at Bhagalpur University, Bihar, India |
1999-2006 | studied medieval Indian history, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
2005 | passed the National Eligibility Test, a compulsory examination that makes one eligible to teach in Indian universities |
2006-2009 | Encompass-fellowship at Leiden University; BA and MA/MPhil in history; learned the Dutch language |
2010-2012 | PhD fellow (Encompass-programme), at the Institute for History, Leiden University |
2013 | PhD under the supervision of J.L. Blussé van Oud-Alblas and J.J.L. Gommans, Leiden University |
2013-present | postdoctoral fellow, Department of History, National University of Singapore |
2015 | assistant professor, School of Historical Studies, Nalanda University, Rajgir, India |
Publications
2004 “The Mughal state and the merchant groups at Surat in the 17th century: hostility and mutual adjustment.” Indica 41,2: 151-164.
2005 “The Mughals, merchants and the European Companies in the 17th century Surat.” Asia Europe Journal 3,2: 269-283.
2006 Review of: M. N. Pearson, The Indian Ocean, London 2003. Asia Europe Journal 4,4: 625-628.
2009 “The social world of Gujarati merchants and their Indian Ocean networks in the seventeenth century.” In: Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves (eds), The South Asian diaspora: transnational networks and changing identities, London-New York: Routledge, pp. 28-44.
2013 The political economy of the Ganga river: highway of state formation in Mughal India, c.1600-1800, [s.l.: s.n.]. – PhD thesis Leiden University; also published as e-book.
– “The rhythms of the economy and vavigation along the Ganga River.” In: Satish Chandra and Himanshu Prabha Ray (eds), The sea, identity and history: from the Bay of Bengal to the South China Sea, New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 221-247.
2014 “Migration, settlement, and state formation in the Ganga Plain: a historical geographic perspective.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 57,4: 587-627.