Participating In India’s Early Modern Cosmopolitanism: The View from the Sea - A talk by Gijs Kruijtzer

Dr. Gijs Kruijtzer is currently a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the MacMillan Center of Yale University. He received his PhD in History from Leiden University in 2008, and his doctoral research was published by the Leiden University Press in 2009, under the title �Xenophobia in Seventeenth-Century India�.

Gijs is fluent in Dutch, and can speak and read French, German, Hindi, and Urdu. He is a member of the editorial board of the series �Dutch Sources on South Asia� which is to publish source editions and source studies in collaboration publishers in Delhi. He is also the editor for Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction.

Gijs� broader areas of research and interests include South Asian history and culture, and Dutch colonialism. Currently, he is working on a new project entitled �The Ethics of Exception�, which aims to investigate attitudes towards moral authority and individual judgment in the early modern period, comparing the �Persianate� world (South Asia, Iran, Central Asia) and the �Latinate� world (Western Europe).

At Yale, Gijs teaches courses on �Visions of South Asia,� and �Islam in South Asia, 1000-Present.� His talk on 2nd February 2011 is titled Participating In India�s Early Modern Cosmopolitanism: The View from the Sea.