Simon Layton
Title: Lecturer in History
School or Department: History
E-mail: s.h.layton (@) qmul.ac.uk
Sites of Interest: Maritime India (especially Western coast)
Period of Interest: C.15th to 19th Centuries
Research Keywords: British Empire; East India Company; Bombay; Piracy; Angria; Marathas; Siddi.
Relevant Publications:
- ‘Hydras and Leviathans in the Indian Ocean world,’ International Journal of Maritime History 25, no. 2 (December 2013), 213-25.
- ‘The “Moghul’s Admiral”: Angrian “Piracy” and the Rise of British Bombay,’ Journal of Early Modern History 17, no. 1 (2013), 1-19.
- ‘Discourses of Piracy in an Age of Revolutions,’ Itinerario 35, no.2 (August 2011), 81-97.