Born May 21, 1961 in New Delhi, India.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a historian and the author of numerous works on the modern era (15th to 18thcenturies ), published since the mid-1980s. Trained in economic history in India, at the Delhi School of Economics, he taught in Delhi, then at the EHESS (Paris), and at Oxford, where he held the Chair of Indian History and Culture. Since 2004, he has been a professor at UCLA, where he holds the Irving and Jean Stone Chair. He is the first winner of the Infosys Prize in Humanities, and has also been awarded the Dan David Prize in History (2019), as well as the International History Prize (2020).
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is the founder of the current known as "connected history", which he has been developing in his writings since the late 1990s, drawing on the work of scholars such as Jean Aubin and Joseph Fletcher. Among his major works in French: L'empire portugais d'Asie (1999); Vasco de Gama (2012); Comment être un étranger (2013); and L'Inde sous les yeux de l'Europe (2018).
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His work has been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Turkish.
