Sujit Sivasundaram

Dr. Sujit Sivasundaram

Professor of World History, University of Cambridge.

e-mail: sps20@cam.ac.uk

Some recent publications

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2019).

Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire. William Collins

  • Sivasundaram, S., Armitage, D. & Bashford, A., eds. (2017).

Oceanic Histories. Cambridge University Press.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2013).

Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony. University of Chicago Press.

Texts to download

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2017).

“Towards a Critical History of Connection: The Port of Colombo, the Geographical ‘Circuit’, and the Visual Politics of New Imperialism, ca. 1880-1914”. 

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2015).

“Imperial Transgressions: The Animal and Human in the Idea of Race”. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 35, No. 1.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2013).

“The Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka: Challenging Narratives of British Colonialism”. Blogs – London School of Economics.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2010).

“Sciences and the Global: on Methods, Questions, and Theory”. Isis, No. 101, pp. 146-158.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2010).

“Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration in the Advent of British Rule to Sri Lanka”. The American Historical Review, Vol. 115, No. 2, pp. 428-452.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2010).

“A Global History of Science and Religion”, in G. Cantor, T. Dixon & S. Pumpfrey, eds. Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, pp. 177-197.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2007).

“‘A Christian Benares’ Orientalism, science and the Serampore Mission of Bengal”. The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 111-145.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2007).

“Tales of the land: British geography and Kandyan resistance in Sri Lanka, c. 1803-1850”. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 925-965.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2005).

“Trading knowledge: the East India Company’s elephants in India and Britain”. The Historical Journal, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 27-63.

  • Sivasundaram, S. (2004).

“Redeeming Memory: the martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and Reverend John Williams”, in G. Williams, ed. Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments. Boydell & Brewer, Boydell Press, pp. 201-229.