Legacies of Trade and Empire

Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, FRAS, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London. She is also a Lecturer in the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge and a Collaborative Researcher at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her scholarship focuses on Indian Ocean commerce, migration and cultural exchange within a historical, linguistic, literary and ethnomusicological frame. Her publications include six monographs, one co-authored book, three edited books, 27 book chapters, 61 articles in academic journals, nine encyclopedia entries and four essays.Beheroze Shroff is Lecturer in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis, Indians of African descent in Gujarat, India, Shroff’s publications include three co-edited books, eight book chapters, seven journal articles and five essays, as well as 11 films screened internationally in various festivals and academic venues.