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Sanjay Subrahmanyam awarded the 2020/2022 International Prize for History CISH

The third edition of the International Prize for History CISH was awarded to Sanjay Subrahmanyam, for the excellence of his works.

A specialist of the early modern period (15th-18th centuries), he is the author of numerous books, essays, and edited volumes, ranging between studies of India and the Indian Ocean, the early modern European empires, and reflections on global history as a field of research.

Among his many publications, many translated into different languages, a few may be mentioned here:
* Aux origines de l’histoire globale (Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France), Fayard, 2014.
* (Co-editor) The Cambridge World History, Vol. VI: The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Books 1 & 2, Cambridge University Press, 2015. 
* Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (ed. with Henning Trüper and Dipesh Chakrabarty), Bloomsbury, 2015. 
* Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800,  Harvard University Press, 2017;
* Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800, SUNY Press, 2018;
* Faut-il universaliser l’histoire ? Entre dérives nationalistes et identitaires, CNRS editions, 2020;
* Les Peuples de l’Orient au milieu du XVIe siècle: Le Codex Casanatense 1889, Édition commentée dirigée par Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Editions Chandeigne, 2022.

The award was delivered during the XXIII International Congress of Historical Sciences in Poznań, Poland, in August 2022.
Please find here the text and the video of the Award Ceremony.

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