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Jos Gommans

Professor of Colonial and Global History

Name
Prof.dr. J.J.L. Gommans
Telephone
+31 71 527 2167
E-mail
j.j.l.gommans@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9620-403X

Gommans is a historian with expertise on the early modern history of South Asia in its global interactions with the outside world of Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the European colonial empires.

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Gommans is a historian with expertise on the early modern history of South Asia in its global interactions with the outside world of Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the European colonial empires.

Spreekuur / Office hours

Na afspraak / By appointment

Inaugural lecture

Stille onzichtbare streng (in Dutch)

Fields of interest

History of South Asia, Global History, Colonial History, Dutch Empire (VOC), History of Central Asia, History of Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean Studies, Cultural Encounters, Cosmopolitanism.

Research

Jos Gommans (1963) studied history in Nijmegen and Leiden. His PhD-thesis focused on the eighteenth-century horse trade between Central Asia and India which created an extensive informal empire dominated by Rohilla and Bangash Afghans (The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710-1780, Leiden: Brill 1995; republished in paperback at Delhi: Oxford University Press 1999 and Manohar Publishers in 2018). It gained new insights into the ecological and geographical background of the long-term interaction between the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. It culminated in his monograph Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire, 1500-1700  (London: Routledge 2002) which offered a fresh geopolitical interpretation of the process of Mughal state-formation. More recently, his work on the Afghan and Mughal empires in South Asia triggered a global comparative enquiry into the legacy of the Turco-Mongolian warband that was published in The Indian Frontier: Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires (London: Routledge, 2018).

Since July 2011 Gommans occupies the Chair of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University. As a result, the early modern cultural encounter between Europe and Asia became an important part of his research agenda. Earlier he had already initiated the archival guide series about Dutch Sources of South Asia (Delhi: Manohar Publishers) and authored two volumes of the Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch East India Company. In 2012, together with Piet Emmer, he published the monograph Rijk aan de rand van de wereld: De geschiedenis van Nederland overzee 1600-1800 (Bert Bakker) to be followed in 2015 by a work on the same topic, edited with Catia Antunes called Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000 (Bloomsbury). An expanded and revised English edition of the first book came out in 2020 as The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800 at Cambridge University Press.

The surprisingly intimate artistic entanglements between the Netherlands and India were investigated in the richly illustrated The Unseen World: The Netherlands and India from 1550 (Rijksmuseum and Vantilt, 2018). In the wake of this book, he acted as guest curator of the 2019 exhibition “India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt” at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Marahaj Vastu Sangrahalaya at Mumbai. Interestingly, these art-historical investigations uncovered a long Eurasian continuum of contiguous regions sharing a common legacy of Neoplatonic philosophy. This instigated several articles, together with Said Reza Huseini, on the idea of the philosopher-king in early Mughal India. In these more recent articles, Gommans increasingly explores the intellectual dimension of the political and economic interactions that he investigated earlier. All in all, his work continues to focus on the early modern history of the Indian subcontinent in its manifold entanglements with the outside world, in particular with Central Asia and Europe.

Grants and awards

Throughout the years Gommans supervised major academic projects. From 2011-2016 he was co-leader of the NWO-G Horizon Project on “Eurasian Empires: Integration Processes and Identity Formation”. Since 2012, he is the director of the “Cosmopolis Programme” which offers intensive academic training to (mainly Asian) historians who study the rich Dutch archives on Asia (and Africa). In 2022, he initiated a regional extension of that programme called “Cosmos Malabaricus” which focuses more specifically on to the early modern history of Kerala. Other projects that he coordinated include the LUF-funded programme on Indonesia “The Making of Religious Traditions in Indonesia: History and Heritage in Global Perspective (1600-1940)” and the Erasmus Mundus programme on India “IBIES (Interdisciplinary Bridges for Indo-European Studies), both until 2018. At present, he directs an archival project on the Dutch factory in Hirado based at Nichibunken, Japan, funded by the Ailion Foundation (IAAF). In the past Gommans was editor of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient and currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the LUP series Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources.

Curriculum vitae

Jos Gommans is Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University. He publishes primarily on the medieval and early-modern history of South Asia, global intellectual history and Dutch colonial history, including a research guide, two historical atlases, seven edited volumes and four monographs: The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710-1780 (Leiden: Brill 1999), Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and High Roads to Empire (London and New York; Routledge 2002), The Unseen World: The Netherlands and India from 1550 (Amsterdam and Nijmegen: Rijksmuseum and Vantilt 2018) and with Pieter Emmer, The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020).

Major publications


The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire 1710-1780 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994) Reprint Pbk: (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999).

 

Edited with D.H.A. Kolff, Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001); Reprint Pbk 2003.

 

With L. Bes and G. Kruijtzer, Dutch Sources on South Asia c. 1600-1825. Vol. 1:Bibliography and Archival Guide to the National Archives at the Hague (TheNetherlands) (Delhi: Manohar Publishers. 2001).

 

Edited with J. Leider, The Maritime Frontier of Burma: Exploring Political, Cultural andCommercial Interaction in the Indian Ocean World, c. 1000-1800 (Amsterdam: KNAW and Leiden: KITLV, 2002).

 

Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500-1700 (London: Routledge, 2002). Hbk, Pbk, E-book.

 

Edited with Om Prakash, Circumambulations in South Asian History: Essays in Honourof Dirk H.A. Kolff (Leiden: E.J. Brill Publishers, 2003).

 

Edited with Harriet Zurndorfer, Roots and Routes of Development in China and India: Highlights of Fifty Years of The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (1957-2007) (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008).

 

Ed., Empires and Emporia: The Orient in World Historical Space and Time: Jubilee Issue of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 53,1-2 (2010). See also Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

 

With Jeroen Bos en Gijs Kruijtzer, Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie / Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company, Deel VI: Voor-Indië, Perzië en het Arabisch Schiereiland / Part VI: India, Persia and the Arabian Peninsula (Voorburg: Asia Maior / Atlas Maior Publishers, 2010).

 

With Rob van Diessen, Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie / Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company, Deel VII: Oost Azië, Birma tot Japan / Part VII: East Asia, Burma to Japan (Voorburg: Asia Maior/Atlas Maior Publishers, 2010).

 

With Piet Emmer, Rijk aan de rand van de wereld: Geschiedenis van Nederland overzee 1600-1800 (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2012).

 

Edited with Catia Antunes, Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000 (London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2015).

 

The Unseen World: India and the Netherlands from 1550 (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum and VanTilt, 2018).

 

The Indian Frontier: Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires (Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2018).

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

 

 

 


 

 

 


 

Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, C. 1500-1800 (Leiden University Press, 2020).

Professor of Colonial and Global History

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Institute for History
  • Algemene Geschiedenis

Work address

Johan Huizinga
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 2.71

Contact

  • Gommans J.J.L. 21 September 2023 - 22 September 2023. Nodes of Early Modern Capitalism II. European University Institute. Florence. [conference attendance].
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Huseini S.R. 17 April 2023 - 17 April 2023. The Ethics of Idolatry: Sun and Cosmos Worship in Judaism and Islam. University of Texas at Austin USA. [conference attendance].
  • Gommans J.J.L.: Stolte C.M. & Bloembergen M. 15 June 2023 - 16 June 2023. India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000. Leiden University. Leiden. Convenor. [contribution to an event].
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Bes L.P.J. January 2023. Cosmos Malabaricus. Leiden University, National Archives The Hague and Kerala Council of Historical Research, India. Kochi/North Paravur, Kerala, India. [partnership].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2023), Space and time in the making of Monsoon Asia. In: Henley D. & Wikramasinghe N. (Eds.), Monsoon Asia: a reader on South and Southeast Asia. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 97-117.
  • Gommans (2023), The Dutch colonial archive in the making of global and local histories: an experiment to remedy inequalities in global history [Les archives coloniales néerlandaises dans l’établissement d’histoires globales et locales] (translation: Gommans J.J.L.), Itinerario : 10-12.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2022), The Neoplatonic Renaissance from the Thames to the Ganges. In: Bose N. (Ed.), India after world history: literature, comparison, and approaches to globalization. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 169-201. book chapter
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Huseini S.R. (2022), Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of sulḥ-i kull: a view from Akbar’s millennial history, Modern Asian Studies 56(3): 870-901. article in journal
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Huseini S.R. (2022), Neoplatonic kingship in the Islamic world: Akbar’s millennial history. In: Afzar Moin A. & Strathern A. (Eds.), Sacred kingship in world history: between immanence and transcendence. New York: Columbia University Press. 192-222. book chapter
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2022), Een korte wereldgeschiedenis van de Gouden Eeuw. In: Huisman T., Maas A. & Schollaardt C. (Eds.), Denkers, Doeners, Durfals: Vijf eeuwen onderzoek en innovatie in Nederland. Zwolle: WBOOKS. 47-50. book chapter
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2022), Les archives coloniales néerlandaises dans l’établissement d’histoires globales et locales, Revue Monde 21(2022): 10-12.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Hond J. de (2021), The unseen world of Willem Schellinks: local milieu and global circulation in the visualization of Mughal India. In: Singh J.G. (Ed.), A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 231-248. book chapter
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Emmer P.C. (2020), The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Lopez A. (Eds.) (2020), Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, c. 1500-1800 . Leiden: Leiden University Press.
  • Gommans J.J.L., Lopez A. & Donoso I. (2020), Introduction. In: Gommans J.J.L. & Lopez A. (Eds.), Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, c. 1500-1800. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 9-23.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2020), Cosmopolitanism and imagination in Nayaka South India: decoding the Brooklyn kalamkari, Archives of Asian Art 70(1): 1-21.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2020), Review of: Koch E. & Anooshahr A. (2019), The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan: Art, Architecture, Politics, Law and Literature.. Mumbai: Marg Publishers. Journal of Early Modern History 24(1): 103-109.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2019), Rijksmuseum Guest Curator “India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt” at Chhatrapati Shivaji Mararaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Mumbai, 17 October – 16 December 2019; incl. introductory speech and guided tour for King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima during state visit to India.Interviews with Dutch media: Radio 1, Blauw Bloed (EO); with Indian media: The Hindu (17-10),), Hindustan Times (17-10), Mid-day (18-10), Architectural Digest (27-10), First Post (4-11) (Chhatrapati Shivaji Mararaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Mumbai,). [other].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (17 October 2019), The Unseen World: The Netherlands and India in the Age of Rembrandt. Mumbai ,India. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (12 August 2019), Kasjmir: Het Sudetenland van de Hindoe Nationalisten?. Trouw, Opinie.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (22 July 2019), Provincializing Europe, Globalizing (Southeast) Asia: Guest Lecture Series at Universitats Gadjah Mada. Jogjakarta, Indonesia. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2019), The Frontier in the Making of Immanent Kingship, 1200-1700. Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence 25 May 2019 - 26 May 2019. Oxford UK: Brasenose College, Oxford University.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1 March 2019), Het mondiale religieuze debat in de zeventiende eeuw: Lezing bij de boekpresentatie Ineke Loots en Joke Spaans, Johannes Hoornbeeck (1617-1666), On the Conversion of Indians and Heathens: An Annotated Translation of De Conversione Indorum et gentilium (1669). Utrecht. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2019), Review of: Onnekink David & Rommelse Gijs (2019), The Dutch in the Early Modern World: A History of Global Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Itinerario 43(3): 566-567.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2019), Rethinking the VOC: Two Cheers for Progress, BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review 134(2): 142-152.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Douma M.J. (Eds.) (2019), The Colonization of Freed African Americans in Suriname: Archival Sources relating to the U.S.-Dutch Negotiations, 1860-1866 no. 3. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Lally J. (2019), The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire c. 1710-1780 - 3rd ed. Delhi: Manohar Publishers.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2018), Decoding the Brooklyn Kalamkari. Cosmopolitan Kalamkaris: Crafting Connections through Seventeenth-century Figural Fabrics 30 October 2018 - 31 October 2018. National Museum, Delhi, India: Cosmopolitan Kalamkaris: Crafting Connections through Seventeenth-century Figural Fabrics.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (5 May 2018), Een moderne Livingstone: Jos Gommans avonturiert in de archieven. Interviewed by Gorissen Adri. [interview].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (13 April 2018), De Verborgen Banden tussen Nederland en India. for Bureau Buitenland (Radio 1). [interview].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2018), De Verborgen Wereld: Nederland en India vanaf 1550 no. 7. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum en VanTilt.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2018), The Unseen World: India and the Netherlands from 1550 no. 7. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum and VanTilt.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2018), Address at booklaunch of De Verborgen Wereld: India en Nederland vanaf 1550, at Rijksmuseum 20 April 2018. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2018), "Indo-Dutch Entanglements in the Age of Rembrandt", presented at Conference on "Drawing from Mughal India in the Age of Rembrandt", The J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 April 2018. Different versions presented at a talk at the University of Texas at Austin, South Asia Institute, 5 April 2018 and at the India Day at the Rijksmuseum organised by the Vereniging Vrienden Aziatische Kunst, 3 June 2018. .
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2018), Java's Mongol Demon. Inscribing the Horse Archer into the Epic History of Majapahit. In: Klöber Rafael & Ludwig Manju (Eds.), HerStory. Historical Scholarship between South Asia and Europe: Festschrift in Honour of Gita Dharampal-Frick. Heidelberg: CrossAsia E Publishing. 249-259.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2018), The Indian Frontier: Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires. Delhi: Manohar Publishers.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2018), The Warband in the Making of Eurasian Empires. In: Berkel Maaike van & Duindam Jeroen (Eds.), Prince, Pen and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives no. 15. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 297-384.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (10 October 2017), Eenheid en verscheidenheid in the Rijk van de Grootmogol -- Lecture for Studium Generale Leiden University. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (4 July 2017), Invited lecture at the Sri Lanka National Archives in Colombo at the launch of The Travel Diary of the Dutch Governor Isaac Augustin Rumpf by Senarat Paranavitana. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2017), Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), Conference Convenor (with Catia Antunes and Carolien Stolte): "Global Nodes, Networks, Orders: Three Global History Workshops on Transformative Connectivity" as part of the Leverhulme International Network Global Nodes, Global Orders, in collaboration with Itinerario, Leiden, 20-22 April 2017. [other].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2017), Dutch Sources on South Asia. Delhi: Manohar Publishers.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), External Advisor Global History Centre Warwick University. [other].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), 'From Courts to Ports, from Area to Era" presented at Posthumus Conference, Nijmegen, 2 June 2017. .
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), Review of: Truschke Audrey (2016), Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court. New York: Columbia University Press 122(5): 1584-1585.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017) Laten we Global History overbodig maken: Recensie van Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History?. Review of: Sebastian Conrad (2017), What is Global History?. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 113(1): 105-106.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Loots I. (2017), Reconnecting Asia: The World Systems of Georgius Hornius (1620-1660). In: Reeuwijk A. van (Ed.), Voyage of Discovery: Exploring the Collections of the Asian Library at Leiden University. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 56-66.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), "Regime Change and the Seventeenth-century Demise of the Euro-Islamic Continuum" presented at Fifth European Congress on World and Global History: Ruptures, Empires and Revolutions, Budapest, 1 September 2017. .
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), "Rethinking the VOC", introductory lecture at Symposium Rethinking the VOC: New Trends in the Study of Old Archives, The Hague, 23 November 2017. .
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2017), Rijksmuseum Bulletin.
  • Duindam J.F.J. & Gommans J.J.L. (Eds.) (2017), Rulers and Elites.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), Symposium Convenor "Rethinking the VOC: New Trends in the Study of Old Archives", The Hague 23-24 November in collaboration with the National Archives at The Hague. [other].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), "The Euro-Islamic Continuum at 1600: Religious and Philosophical Revivalism and the Production of Courtly Knowledge" presented at the Itinerario/Leverhulme Conference on Global Nodes, Networks, Orders: Three Global History Workshops on Transformative Connectivity, Leiden, 20 April 2017. .
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2017), Workshop Convenor "The Persian Gulf as Global Commercial Sphere, 1500-1800", Leiden 28 November 2017. [other].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (24 November 2016), Europeanen van Overzee: Reizen – Contacten – Beeldvorming [ICLON Geschiedenisdag, November 24, 2016]. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (10 October 2016), Eenheid in Verscheidenheid in het Rijk van de Grootmogol [Studium Generale Leiden, October 10, 2016]. Studium Generale. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (19 September 2016), Booklaunch Casper Luckerhof, 'Een eenzame bruggenbouwer: Reizen door het India van P.A.S. van Limburg Brouwer' [SPUI25, Amsterdam, September 19, 2016]. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (4 July 2016), Travel Diary of the Dutch Governor Isaac Augustin Rumpf [Booklaunch of Senarat Paranavitana, National Archives of Sri Lanka, Colombo, July 4, 2016]. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2016), De Mooiste Dag uit de Nederlandse Geschiedenis: Charter van Kortenberg, 27 september 1312, Quest : .
  • Gommans J.J.L. (24 September 2015), Centraal Azië: Van Centraal naar Perifeer [Symposium 'Nicolaas Witsen en de kennis van Eurazië in de Gouden Eeuw', Teylers Museum, Haarlem, September 24, 2015]. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (24 May 2015), Akbar versus Rana Pratap debate. for The Times of India. [interview].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (8 May 2015), Bookpresentation: 'Kerk en school op de Molukken tijdens de VOC-tijd' [Organized by H. Niemeijer and Th. van den End, Den Haag, Huijgens ING, May 8, 2015]. [lecture].
  • Antunes C.A.P. & Gommans J.L.L. (2015), Exploring the Dutch Empire. Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Antunes C.A.P. & Gommans J.L.L. (2015), Preface. In: Antunes C.A.P. & Gommans J.L.L. (Eds.), Exploring the Dutch Empire. Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000. London: Bloomsbury. XI-XII.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (24 March 2015), De VOC en de Islam: Botsing of dialoog? [TASA, VU Amsterdam, March 24, 2015]. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Loots I. (2015), Arguing with the Heathens: The Further Reformation and the Historical Ethnography of Johannes Hoornbeeck (1617-1666), Itinerario 39(1): 1-23.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2015), Conclusion: Globalizing Empire: The Dutch Case. In: Antunes C. & Gommans J.J.L. (Eds.), Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-1800. London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury. 267-78.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2015), Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin. In: Bentley J.H., Subrahmanyam S. & Wiesner-Hanks M.E. (Eds.), The Cambridge World History: Volume VI: The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 1: Foundations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 182-210.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2015), Cosmopolitisme sud-asiatique et microcosme néerlandais à Cochin au xviie siècle. In: Lefèvre C., Županov I.G. & Flores J. (Eds.), Cosmopolitismes en Asie du Sud: Sources, itinéraires, langues (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales. 97-119.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Antunes C.A.P. (Eds.) (2015), Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions 1600-2000. London New Delhi New York Sydney: Bloomsbury.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2015), Farrukhabad 97-100.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2015), For the Home and the Body: Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption. In: Berg M. (Ed.), Trading Eurasia 1600-1800. London: Palgrave. 331-349.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Loots I. (2015), Johannes Hoornbeecks etnohistorische methode en de Nieuwe Wereld. In: Dissel A. van, Ebben M. & Fatah-Black K. (Eds.), Reizen door het maritieme verleden van Nederland: Maritiem-historische opstellen aangeboden aan Henk J. den Heijer. Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 189-205.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2015), Merchants among kings: Dutch diplomatic encounters in Asia. In: Corrigan K.H., Campen J. van & Diercks F. (Eds.), Asia in Amsterdam. The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 32-40.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2015), South Asian Cosmopolitanism and the Dutch Microcosmos in Seventeenth-Century Cochin (Kerala). In: Antunes C. & Gommans J.J.L. (Eds.), Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-1800. London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury. 3-27.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & De Hond Jan (2015), Willem Schellinks en India: Tussen werkelijkheid en illusie. In: Bange P. & Geurts J. (Eds.), Onbegrend Perspectief: Cultuurhistorische Verkenningen. Amersfoort: Bekking & Blitz.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (4 February 2014), Haarlemse schilders in de 17e eeuw in Azië [Probus, Haarlem, February 4, 2014]. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2014), Review of: Amrith S. (2013), Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Journal of Global History 9(3): 497-499.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2013), Review of: Akhter M., Writing the Mughal State as a Political Process. Economic and Political Weekly .
  • Gommans J.J.L. (9 February 2013), De VOC en de Islam: Botsing of dialoog? [Leiden University Dies Natalis, 9 February 2013]. [lecture].
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2013), . Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1 June 2012). Stille onzichtbare streng. Leiden. [inaugural address].
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Emmer P.C. (2012), Rijk aan de rand van de wereld: De geschiedenis van Nederland overzee 1600-1800. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker.
  • Weber A., Gommans J.J.L. & Osterhammel Juergen (2011), "You turn a page and then there is suddenly something on a turtle" An Interview with Jurgen Osterhammel, Itinerario 35(3): 7-16.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2011), Nederlandse schilders in de Oost: Een hypothese. In: Lindblad Th. & Schrikker A. (Eds.), The verre gezicht: Politieke en relaties tussen Nederland en Azië, Afrika en Amerika: Opstellen aangeboden aan prof.dr. Leonard Blussé. Franeker: Van Wijnen. 66-88.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2011) Review. Review of: Lieberman V. (2009), Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830, Vol. 2: Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia and the Islands no. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT 54: 87-91.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2011), The Silent Frontier of South Asia c. 1100-1800 CE. In: Rangarajan M. & Sivaramakrishnan K. (Eds.), India's Environmental History: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period. Delhi: Permanent Black. 217-245.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2010) Botsende beschavingen in premodern India. Review of: (2009), F.B. Flood, Objects of Translation: Material culture and medieval Hindu-Muslim encounter no. 3. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS 123: 453-455.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2010), Empires and Emporia: The Orient in World Historical Space and Time. JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT no. 53,1. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2010), Empires and Emporia: The Orient in World Historical Space and Time: Introduction, JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT 53(1): 3-19.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Diessen R. van (2010), Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie / Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company, Deel VII: Oost Azië, Birma tot Japan / Part VII: East Asia, Burma to Japan (Voorburg: Asia Maior/Atlas Maior Publishers, 2010). Voorburg: Atlas Maior.
  • Gommans J.J.L., Bos J. & Kruijtzer G. (2010), Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie / Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company, Deel VI: Voor-Indië, Perzië en het Arabisch Schiereiland / Part VI: India, Persia and the Arabian Peninsula (Voorburg: Asia Maior / Atlas Maior Publishers, 2010). Voorburg: Atlas Maior.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2010), “Limits of Empire”. In: Bhargava Meena (Ed.), Exploring Medieval India, Vol. 2. Delhi: Orient Blackswan. 509-546.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2009) Weer een nieuwe stap in de ontsluiting van het VOC-archief. Review of: , The Dutch Factories in India: A Collection of Dutch East India Company Documents pertaining to India, Vol. II: 1624-1627. no. 3. Delhi: Manohar. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS 122: 414-415.
  • Zurndorfer H.T. & Gommans J.J.L. (2008), Connecting the Giants through a Global Perspective. Zurndorfer H.T. & Gommans J.J.L. (Eds.), Roots and Routes of Development in China and India. JESHO's Fiftieth Anniversary. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. ix-xxxix.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2008), . JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT.
  • Zurndorfer H.T. & Gommans J.J.L. (Eds.) (2008), Roots and Routes of Development in China and India. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2007), Afghans in India. Nawas J. & et al. (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Islam. . Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 59-62.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2007) Boekbespreking. Review of: Tanabe A., Siddiqui I.H. & Kimura M. (2005|2006), An Eighteenth Century History of North India: An Account of the Rise and Fall of the Rohilla Chiefs in Janbhasha by Rustam Ali Bijnori|The State in India Past and Present no. 4. Delhi|Delhi: Manohar|Oxford University Press. The Indian Economic and Social History Review 44: 537-540.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2007), . JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Rietbergen P.G.A.N. (Eds.) (2007), . Geschiedenis Magazine.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2007), India: Een globale geschiedenis, Geschiedenis Magazine 42(2): 14-20.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2007), Mughal India and Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century: An Introduction to a Wider Perspective. Levi Scott C. (Ed.), India and Central Asia: Commerce and Culture, 1500-1800. Reprint for OUP series in Debates in Indian History and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 39-64.
  • Gommans J.J.L., Bhattacharya B. & Dharampal-Frick G. (2007), Spatial and Temporal Continuities of Merchant Networks in South Asia and the Indian Ocean: c. 1500-2000, JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT 50(2): 91-105.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2007), War-horse and Post-nomadic Empire in Asia, c. 1000-1800, Journal of Global History 2(1): 1-21.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2006), . JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2006), The Surat Castle Revolution: Myths of an Anglo-Bania Order and Dutch Neutrality, c.1740-1760, Journal of Early Modern History 10(4): 1-30.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2005) Boekbespreking. Review of: Iqtidar Alam Khan (2004), Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in medieval India no. 3. Delhi: Oxford University Press. The Indian Economic and Social History Review 42: 439-442.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2005) Warfare on quicksand. Review of: Kaushik Roy (2004), From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 BC to AD 1999 no. 7. Delhi: Manohar. Economic and Political Weekly 40: 627-629.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2004), Between the Flux and Facts of Indian History: Introduction to a Tribute, JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT 47(3): 288-291.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2004), Ouwerling tussen goede oude tijd en moderniteit, Brabants Heem: Tijdschrift voor Archeologie, Geschiedenis en Volkskunde 1(56): 23-34.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) (2004), Social Dynamics in Mughal India. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Prakash O. (Eds.) (2003), Circumambulations in South Asian History: Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Koolen P. (Eds.) (2003), Hendrik Ouwerling: De onvoltooide biografie door Jac Heeren. Deurne: Heemkundekring H.N. Ouwerling.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Prakash O. (2003), Introduction. Gommans Jos & Prakash Om (Eds.), Circumambulations in South Asian History: Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff. . Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1-28.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2003), Slavery and Naukari among the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad. Gommans Jos & Prakash Om (Eds.), Circumambulations in South Asian History: Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff. . Leiden: E.J. Brill. 179-216.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2002), Burma at the Frontier of South, East and Southeast Asia: A Geographic Perspective. Gommans J.J.L. & Leider J. (Eds.), The Maritime Frontier of Burma: Exploring Political, Cultural and Commercial Interaction in the Indian Ocean World, 1200-1800. . Amsterdam/Leiden: KNAW/ KITLV Press. 1-8.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2002), De Indiase stilte in het lawaai rondom het VOC-jubileum, India Nu 139(sept-okt): 7-11.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2002), Mughal Warfare: Frontiers and High Roads of Empire 1500-1700. London: Routledge.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Leider J. (2002), Preface. Gommans J.J.L. & Leider J. (Eds.), The Maritime Frontier of Burma: Exploring Political, Cultural and Commercial Interaction in the Indian Ocean World, 1200-1800. . Amsterdam/Leiden: KNAW/ KITLV Press. vii-xii.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Leider J. (Eds.) (2002), The Maritime Frontier of Burma: Exploring Political, Cultural and Commercial Interaction in the Indian Ocean World, 1200-1800. Amsterdam/Leiden: KNAW/ KITLV Press.
  • Gommans J.J.L., Bes L. & Kruijtzer G. (2001), Dutch Sources on South Asia c. 1600-1825, Volume 1: Bibliography and Archival Guide to the National Archives. Delhi: Manohar Publishers.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2001) Identiteitspolitiek in Centraal- en Zuid-Azië. Review of: Schendel W. van (2001), Identity politics in Central Asia and the Muslim world: nationalism, ethnicity and labour in the 20th century no. 10. London/New York: I.B. Tauris. Internationale Spectator 55: 521-522.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2001), Indian Warfare and Afghan Innovation during the Eighteenth Century. Gommans J.J.L. & Kolff D.H.A. (Eds.), Warfare and Wesponry in South Asia 1000-1800. . Delhi: Oxford University Press. 365-387.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Kolff D.H.A. (2001), Introduction. In: Gommans J.J.L. & Kolff D.H.A. (Eds.), Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia 1000-1800. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1-42.
  • Gommans J.J.L. & Kolff D.H.A. (Eds.) (2001), Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia 1000-1800. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2000) recensie. Review of: Guha S. (2000), Environment and Ethnicity in India no. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT 43: 596-590.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2000) recensie. Review of: Jackson P. (2000), The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History no. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The International History Review 22: 624-626.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (2000) recensie. Review of: Ludden D. (2000), New Cambridge History of India IV,4: An Agrarian History of South Asia no. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of the Economic and Social History Review 43: 582-586.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1999) recensie. Review of: Foltz R.C. (1999), Mughal India and Central Asia no. 5/6. Karachi: Oxford University Press. Bibliotheca Orientalis 56: 817-820.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1999) recensie. Review of: Gaastra F. (1999), On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian History no. 4. Aldershot: NN 58: 1150-1151.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1999), The Embarrassment of Political Violence in Europe and South Asia, c. 1000-1800. In: Houben J.E.M. & Kooij K.R. van (Eds.), Violence Denied. Non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian Cultural History. Leiden: Brill. 287-315.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1999), Warhorse and gunpowder in India, c. 1000-1850. In: Black J. (Ed.), War in the Early Modern World. London: UCL Press London. 105-127.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1998) Boekbespreking. Review of: Noell C. (1998), State and tribe in nineteenth-century AfghanistanBoekbespreking. NN: NN. IIAS Newsletter (Special Issue, The Asia-Pacific War 60 Years On: History and Memory) 16: 13-13.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1998) recensie. Review of: Burton A. (1998), The Bukharans - Cahier d'Asie Centrale no. 2. Richmond Surrey/Tashkent: NN. Iranian Studies 31: 272-274.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1998) Recensie. Review of: Moor J.A. de (1998), De werken van Jacob Haafner, deel 3 no. 1. Zutphen: NN. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 17: 65-66.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1998), The Eurasian frontier after the first millennium AD: reflections along the fringe of time and space, The Medieval History Journal 1(1): 125-145.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1998), The silent frontier of South Asia, c. 1100-1800 AD, Journal of World History 9(1): 1-25.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1997) Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750. Review of: Dale S.F. (1997), Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 no. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT 40: 142-143.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1996) Boekbespreking. Review of: McLachlan K. (1996), The Boundaries of Modern Iran. New York. The European Legacy .
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1996) Boekbespreking. Review of: Gelder G.J. van (1996), Eastward Bound: Dutch Ventures and Adventures in the Middle East no. 2. Amsterdam. BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review 111: 221-222.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1995) Bairam Khan. Review of: Sukuma R. (1995), Bairam Khan no. 5. Karachi: NN. Persica : Uitgave van het Genootschap Nederland-Iran (Annual of the Dutch-Iranian Society) 15: 188-189.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1995) Boekbespreking. Review of: Ouwerkerk L. (1995), No Elephants for the Maharaja: Social and Political Change in Travancore 1921-1947 no. 2. New Delhi. Itinerario 19: 174-175.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1995), Indian Warfare and Afghan Innovation during the Eighteenth Century, Studies in History 11(2): 261-281.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1995), The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire (c.1710-1780). Leiden: E.J. Brill.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (1995), Trade and Civilization around the Bay of Bengal, Itinerario 19(3): 82-109.
  • Gommans J.J.L. (Ed.) () Dutch Sources in Colonial and Global History Dutch Sources on Colonial and Global History. Leiden: Leiden University Press.

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