Radhika Seshan retired as Professor and Head, Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly University of Pune), India, in July 2019, and is now Visiting Professor at the Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts, Pune. She has several publications including Trade and Politics on the Coromandel Coast: Seventeenth to Early Eighteenth Centuries (2012) and Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India: Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries (2013), as well as various edited volumes.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. The Imagined Lands 2. Locating the East 3. Exploring the East 4. Defining the East 5. Recasting the East 6. Anchoring the ‘Orient’ Select Bibliography. Index.

Radhika Seshan retired as Professor and Head, Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly University of Pune), India, in July 2019, and is now Visiting Professor at the Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts, Pune. She has several publications including Trade and Politics on the Coromandel Coast: Seventeenth to Early Eighteenth Centuries (2012) and Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India: Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries (2013), as well as various edited volumes.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. The Imagined Lands 2. Locating the East 3. Exploring the East 4. Defining the East 5. Recasting the East 6. Anchoring the ‘Orient’ Select Bibliography. Index.

Radhika Seshan retired as Professor and Head, Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly University of Pune), India, in July 2019, and is now Visiting Professor at the Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts, Pune. She has several publications including Trade and Politics on the Coromandel Coast: Seventeenth to Early Eighteenth Centuries (2012) and Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India: Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries (2013), as well as various edited volumes.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. The Imagined Lands 2. Locating the East 3. Exploring the East 4. Defining the East 5. Recasting the East 6. Anchoring the ‘Orient’ Select Bibliography. Index.