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Lakshmi Subramanian
Lakshmi Subramanian is professor of humanities and social sciences in BITS Pilani (Goa campus). Her areas of expertise are the social history of music in south India and the maritime and economic history of India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has written extensively in both fields and her publications include From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy: A Social History of Music in South India (Oxford University Press, 2007) and The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Northwestern Littoral (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her more recent work is on Gandhi and is titled Singing Gandhi’s India Music and Sonic Nationalism (Roli Books, 2020).