Sujit Sivasundaram

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According to Wikipedia, Sujit Sivasundaram is a British Sri Lankan historian and academic. He is currently professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. Early life Sivasundaram was born in Sri Lanka. He is the great grand son of Lawrie Muthu Krishna, editor of the Ceylonese newspaper and founder of The Polytechnic vocational school. He is the grandson of Mano Muthu Krishna-Candappa, journalist and advocate for women's advancement in Sri Lanka.

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Sujit Sivasundaram's Published Works

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Sciences and the Global: On Methods, Questions, and Theory (2010) (131)
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony (2013) (43)
Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850 (2005) (31)
Focus: Global histories of science. Introduction. (2010) (24)
Rediscovering the British World (2007) (21)
Buddhist Kingship, British Archaeology and Historical Narratives in Sri Lanka c. 1750-1850 (2007) (20)
Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change (2018) (19)
TRADING KNOWLEDGE: THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S ELEPHANTS IN INDIA AND BRITAIN (2005) (19)
Natural History Spiritualized: Civilizing Islanders, Cultivating Breadfruit, and Collecting Souls (2001) (14)
Tales of the Land: British Geography and Kandyan Resistance in Sri Lanka, c. 1803–1850 (2007) (13)
Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration in the Advent of British Rule to Sri Lanka (2010) (11)
Imperial Transgressions: The Animal and Human in the Idea of Race (2015) (11)
‘A Christian Benares’ (2007) (7)
Towards a Critical History of Connection: The Port of Colombo, the Geographical “Circuit,” and the Visual Politics of New Imperialism, ca. 1880–1914 (2017) (6)
Science, medicine and technology (2010) (4)
Introduction (2010) (4)
Introduction: global histories of science (2010) (3)
Race, empire and biology before Darwin (2010) (3)
Introduction: writing world oceanic histories (2017) (3)
The Human, The Animal and the Prehistory of COVID-19* (2020) (3)
Islanded: natural history in the British colonisation of Ceylon (2007) (2)
The Atlantic Ocean (2018) (2)
Redeeming memory: the martyrdoms of Captain James Cook and Revd John Williams (2004) (2)
Waves Across the South (2021) (2)
MONARCHS, TRAVELLERS AND EMPIRE IN THE PACIFIC'S AGE OF REVOLUTIONS (2020) (1)
The oils of empire (2018) (1)
Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable (2018) (1)
CONVICTS OR CONQUISTADORES ? SPANISH SOLDIERS IN THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PACIFIC (2016) (1)
The periodical as barometer: spiritual measurement and the 'Evangelical Magazine' (2004) (1)
Materialities in the Making of World Histories (2020) (1)
:The Travelers World: Europe to the Pacific (2007) (0)
TONY BALLANTYNE (ed.), Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific.The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900. Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxxv+367. ISBN 0-7546-3562-7. £75.00 (hardback). (2006) (0)
Foreword (2021) (0)
Convolutions of Space and Time (2013) (0)
Harry Liebersohn.The Travelers’ World: Europe to the Pacific. xiii + 380 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2005. $29.95 (cloth). (2007) (0)
Kapil Raj.Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900. xiii + 285 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $74.95 (cloth). (2008) (0)
The Indian Ocean (2017) (0)
Paths through Mountains and Seas (2013) (0)
Victorian science and literature, part II, volume 8: marginal and occult sciences (2012) (0)
Hold the hemlock (2005) (0)
Sacred modernity: nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood (2016) (0)
Islands and the Age of Revolutions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (2021) (0)
Helaine Selin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Second Edition . 2 vols. Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer, 2008. Pp. xix+2416. ISBN 978-1-4020-4559-2. £355.00 (hardback). (2010) (0)
The kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka: challenging narratives of British colonialism (2013) (0)
Towards a New History of Science and Religion (2005) (0)
MORSE, D. D. and DANAHAY, M. A. (editors), Victorian animal dreams: representations of animals in Victorian literature and culture. Aldershot, Ashgate: 2007. Pp 322; illustrated (29 monochrome, 1 line drawing). Price £ 55 (hardback). ISBN 9780754655114. (2010) (0)
GEOFFREY CANTOR, Quakers, Jews and science: religious responses to modernity and the sciences in Britain, 1650-1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. XI+420 pp., ISBN 0199276684. (2007) (0)
Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis, eds. Rediscovering the British World . Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. Pp. 445. $54.95 (cloth). (2007) (0)
Cosmopolitanism and indigeneity in four violent years:: the fall of the kingdom of Kandy and the Great Rebellion revisited (2017) (0)
Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company, Miles Ogborn. Chicago University Press, Chicago (2007), 288 pages, US$40 cloth (2008) (0)
Thomas R. Trautmann, Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. (2017) (0)
Oceanic Histories: Editors' Response (2018) (0)
Appropriation to Supremacy (2013) (0)
Forum Global Dis:connections (2023) (0)
Science, race and imperialism (2012) (0)
Debjani Bhattacharyya. Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta; Sudipta Sen. Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River; Sunil Amrith. Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia’s History (2021) (0)
Making the Globe: A Cultural History of Science in the Bay of Bengal (2020) (0)
Epilogue (2018) (0)

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