About the Author

RILA MUKHERJEE is Professor of History, University of Hyderabad and presently Director, Institut de Chandernagor. She is the editor of Vanguards of Globalization: Port-Cities from the Classical to the Modern (2014), Oceans Connect: Reflections on Water Worlds Across Time and Space (2013), Pelagic Passageways: the Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism (2011) and Networks in the First Global Age, 1400-1800 (2011). She is currently working on responses to natural hazards in history.