S. Jeyaseela StephenS. JEYASEELA STEPHEN was Directeur, Institut pour études Indo-Européennes until 2023. He was Professor of Maritime History (2001-13) at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, and has authored numerous books including The Coromandel Coast and its Hinerland: Economy, Society and Political System, 1500-1600 (1997); Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries (2009); Oceanscapes: Tamil Textiles in the Early Modern World (2014); A Meeting of the Minds: European and Tamil Encounters in Modern Sciences, 1507-1857 (2016); History of the Climate Change on the Coromandel Coast, Ninth-Nineteenth Centuries (2023). His books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, German and Tamil. He is the recipient of the best book prize of 1999 from the Government of Tamil Nadu and Thiru Vi Ka award of 2023 of the Government of Tamil Nadu Read More Read Less