Gijs Kruijtzer

Gijs Kruijtzer, PhD History, Leiden University, 2008. In 2009, the outcome of his PhD research was published by Leiden University Press under the title “Xenophobia in Seventeenth-Century India”. He is currently 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). He will be offering the courses: Visions of South Asia 1500-1800 and Islam in South Asia 1000-Present.