Research field (3):
Economic history
, History - Asia/Africa
, History - General
Research keywords (11):
Port City
, Political Economy
, The Indian Ocean
, Trade
, International Law
, Piracy
, Early Modern
, Maritime History
, East India Company
, Indian History
, South Asian History
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
Shinsaku Kato. The Dutch East India Company and Its Interpreters in the Mughal Empire. Jin Noda (ed.), Trust in the Translations, (Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization, Vol. 3), Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 2024. 55-74
Shinsaku Kato. Politics of Maritime Navigation in the Arabian Sea during the Seventeenth Century. Comparative Studies of Civilizations. 2023. 39. 23-38
Shinsaku Kato. Roads and Security Between Agra and Surat During the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries. Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada (eds.), Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land, New York: Routledge. 2023. 77-96
Shinsaku Kato. Ship-owning Merchants in Mughal Surat: Disputes with the Dutch East India Company on the Navigation towards the Malabar Coast in 1685. Bulletin of the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies. 2022. 94. 36-58
Reconstructing Networks: The Dutch East India Company in Surat during the Mid-Eighteenth Century
(WEHC 2025: Session on “Global Supply Chains and Enterprises over the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenges for Sustainability in the Tide of Turmoil” Lund University, Lund, Sweden 2025)
Reorganising Trade: The Dutch East India Company in Surat during the Late Eighteenth Century
(Workshop on "Early Modern Maritime Asia from Global Perspectives" The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2024)
Security against Piracy in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1690-1710: Discussion among the Mughals and the East India Companies
(The 9th IMHA International Congress of Maritime History: "Oceans: Local Mobility, Global Connectivity" Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, Republic of Korea 2024)
Maritime Sovereignty along the West Coast of India during the Eighteenth Century
(The 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars: "Crossways of Knowledge" Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia 2024)
The Brokers of the Dutch East India Company in the Mughal Empire during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Case of Surat
(93th Annual Conference of the Socio-Economic History Society, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan 2024)