Writing on Early Indo-U.S. Encounters

Bombay Boston: Commercial and Cultural Encounters in the Age of Sail. 9th Vasant J. Sheth Memorial Lecture, 2007.  Mumbai: Vasant J. Sheth Memorial Foundation, 2008.

Bengal Goods for America, the Nineteenth Century, in Textiles from India: the Global Trade. Rosemary Crill, ed. Pp. 217-232. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2006.

Yankee India (2001) available on Amazon and at www.pem.org

Yankee India (2001) is  available from Amazon and the Peabody Essex Museum Shop

Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail. Salem and Ahmedabad: Peabody Essex Museum and Mapin Publications, 2001.

Rediscovered: A Rare Portrait of Raja Rammohun Roy, with Alyssa Langlais Dodge, Marg Magazine 52 (2), Pp. 70-74, 2000.

On the Indian Origins of the Bandanna, Antiques Magazine. December, 1999, Pp. 832-839.

Bandanna: On the Indian Origins of an All-American Textile, in Peter Benes, ed., Textiles in Early New England: Design, Production, and Consumption. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings 1997. Pp. 168-183. Boston: Boston University, 1999.

The Yankee Connection, Fezana Journal 10(1): 20-22,1997.

Yankee Views of India, The India Magazine 12(10): 56-67, 1992.

Cold Mine (on the 19th century ice trade between the United States and India), American Heritage 42(4): 71-76, 1991.

Calcutta Banians for the American Trade: Portraits of Nineteenth Century Bengali Merchants in the Collections of the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Essex Institute, in Pratapaditya Pal, ed., Changing Visions, Lasting Images: Calcutta Through 300 Years. Pp. 69-80. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1990.

The American Market for Indian Textiles, 1785-1820: In the Twilight of Traditional Cloth Manufacture, in M. Gittinger, ed., Textiles in Trade. Pp.43-52. Proceedings of the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium, 1990.

Yankee Traders and Indian Merchants, 1785-1865, in The Festival of India, 1985. Pp. 131-137. New York: Harry M. Abrams,1985.

Rajinder Dutt, Merchant of Calcutta, Catalogue of the Peabody Museum of Salem’s Antique Show. Pp. 32-37. Reprinted in Raj Krishna, ed., Calcutta Heritage. New Delhi: Veerendra Printers, 1991, and in Span Magazine, New Delhi, April 1987; translated into Bengali in Alokpaat, October, Calcutta, 1990.

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