Archives and Archiving in the 21st Century

This volume explores changing notions of the archive in different areas, to trace the ways in which the archive has continued to be used in history. It examines how history, the historian, and the archive interact in many ways to look at the past and record it.

Radhika Seshan retired as Professor and Head of the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly the University of Pune). She is now Visiting Faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune. Within the broad area of medieval Indian history, her research focuses on trade, especially in textiles, and maritime networks. Her most recent publication is a monograph, Empires of the Sea: A Brief Human History of the Indian Ocean World (2023). Her other works include Wage Earners in India 1500-1900: Regional Approaches in an International Context, jointly edited with Jan Lucassen (2021), and Connecting the Indian Ocean World - Across Sea and Land, and Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land, jointly edited with Ryuto Shimada (Routledge, 2023).