Professor Dr. Sushil CHAUDURY has been professor at the Calcutta University, in the Departmant of History. He still works there as a UGC Emeritus Fellow. He is also a fellow of Historical Society in England. His main themes of research are Economic and Social History of Medieval and Modern India, European trade in India, especially Bengal and its impact on the Indian economy, the history of Bengal (17th-19th Centuries), the History of Early Islam and Islamic Civilisation . He now works in collaboration with M. Kevonian on Armenians in Asian trade.