KEIO RESEARCHERS INFORMATION SYSTEM

Other Affiliation 【 Display / hide 】

Other Affiliation 【 Display / hide 】

• Graduate School of Human Relations

Career 【 Display / hide 】

Career 【 Display / hide 】

• 2007.04

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  2008.03

  Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics, Lecturer

• 2008.04

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  2013.03

  Keio University, Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor

• 2012.04

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  Present

  Keio University, Graduate School of Economics, 委員

• 2013.04

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  Present

  Keio University, Faculty of Economics, Professor

• 2014.04

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  Present

  Keio University, Graduate School of Human Relations, 委員

Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

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  Keio University, Faculty of Economics

  University, Graduated

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  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Department of History

  Graduate School, Completed

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  Keio University, 経済学研究科修士課程

  Graduate School, Completed

Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

• PhD (History), University of London, 2005.03

Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

• Humanities & Social Sciences / Economic history (Economic History)

• Humanities & Social Sciences / History of Asia and Africa

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

• East India Company

• Bengal

• business history of India

• Fuel, Energy

• Salt Industry

Books 【 Display / hide 】

Books 【 Display / hide 】

• An Earthly Paradise: Trade, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Bengal

  Raziuddin Aquil and Tilottama Mukerhjee, Manohar Publishers, 2020

  Scope: Consumer Preferences, Markets and the State in Early Colonial Bengal with Special Reference to Salt, pp.295-324

• Chinese and Indian merchants in modern Asia : networking businesses and formation of regional economy

  Chi-cheung Choi, Tomoko Shiroyama, Takashi Oishi, Brill, 2019,  Page： x, 355 p.

  Scope: Family, Caste, and Beyond: the Business History of Salt Merchants in Bengal, c.1780-1840, pp.104-132)

  • Access to Document (DOI)
  • CiNii Research

• Salt and India: Markets, Merchants and the English East India Company

  KANDA Sayako, 名古屋大学出版会, 2017.01

• Memory, Identity, and Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb

  KANDA Sayako, Routledge, 2017

  Scope: Competition or Collaboration? Importers of Salt, the East India Company, and the Salt Market in Eastern India, c.1780–1836, pp.249-275

• 経営史学の５０年

  KANDA Sayako, 日本経済評論社, 2015.03

  Scope: インド（386-396頁）

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

Papers 【 Display / hide 】

• Environmental Changes, the Emergence of a Fuel Market, and the Working Conditions of Salt Makers in Bengal, c.1780-1845

  KANDA Sayako

  International Review of Social History 55 ( supplement ) 123-151 2010.12

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted

• Forged salt bills, speculation, and the money market in Calcutta: the economy of Bengal in colonial transition, c. 1790-1840

  KANDA Sayako

  International Journal of South Asian Studies 5   89-112 2013

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted

• 18世紀末～19世紀前半におけるベンガルの穀物流通システム―穀物交易をめぐるインド商人と東インド会社

  KANDA Sayako

  社会経済史学 (社会経済史学会)  66 ( 1 ) 67-88 - 84,123 2000.05

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted,  ISSN  0038-0113

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  This article will explore the dynamism of indigenous trading systems in Bengal under colonial control through a case study of the grain trade. In 1794 the government attempted to stabilize prices and to prevent famines by establishing state-run grain storehouses, but these policies were unsuccessful. Two major factors contributed to this failure. First, the government had not fully understood the spatial geography of the Bengal grain trade ; second, there was strong resistance to market intervention from native traders. To understand the background factors that led to this failure, we need to examine the operation of the indigenous trading system which was centered on wholesale grain markets, known as ganjs. The ganjs played an important role in linking producing areas and town markets. The traders in ganjs held stores of grain in their granaries, and by using their knowledge, trade experience, information and trading networks, they controlled both prices, and supply and demand. In other words, although the expansion of Company rule brought major changes to the overall economy, indigenous trading systems adapted to the new situation and continued to play a significant economic role.

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• ベンガル塩商人の活動とイギリス東インド会社の塩独占体制（1788～1836年）

  KANDA Sayako

  社会経済史学 (社会経済史学会)  68 ( 2 ) 21-42 2002.07

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted

• Coal, Firewood, and Grass: Regionality and Diversity in Energy Use in Colonial India

  Sayako Kanda

  The Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative 7 2025.06

  Accepted

  • Access to Document (DOI)

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Papers, etc., Registered in KOARA 【 Display / hide 】

Papers, etc., Registered in KOARA 【 Display / hide 】

• The frontier of the socio-economic history of colonial Bengal : preface

  Kanda, Sayako

  Mita journal of economics (慶應義塾経済学会)  109 ( 3 ) 411(17) - 423(29) 2016.10

  ISSN  00266760

• Reconsidering the decline of the salt industry in colonial Bengal

  Kanda, Sayako

  Mita journal of economics (慶應義塾経済学会)  109 ( 3 ) 503(109) - 524(130) 2016.10

  ISSN  00266760

• Travel and economy in early modern Bengal

  Kanda, Sayako

  Mita journal of economics (慶應義塾経済学会)  109 ( 3 ) 425(31) - 470(76) 2016.10

  ISSN  00266760

• From Thrace to Bengal : Greek merchants and the salt trade in early colonial Bengal

  Kanda, Sayako

  Mita journal of economics (慶應義塾経済学会)  108 ( 2 ) 331(61) - 352(82) 2015.07

  ISSN  00266760

• Colonization and changes in the market in early nineteenth-century India, with special reference to the salt market in Eastern India

  Kanda, Sayako

  科学研究費補助金研究成果報告書 2009

Reviews, Commentaries, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

Reviews, Commentaries, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

• 「世界の工場」としての南アジア

  神田さやこ

  社会経済史学事典    114 - 115 2021.06

• 再生可能エネルギー

  神田さやこ

  社会経済史学事典    476 - 477 2021.06

• Introduction

  Kanda S.

  Asian Review of World Histories (Asian Review of World Histories)  9 ( 1 ) 1 - 3 2020

  ISSN  2287965X

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• 書評 小川道大著『帝国後のインド : 近世的発展のなかの植民地化』

  神田さやこ

  社会経済史学 86 ( 3 ) 295 - 297 2020

• 塩の個性と人々の好み（南アジア）

  神田 さやこ

  くらしお・de・ワールド (塩と暮らしを結ぶ運動推進協議会)   2019.04

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

• Bengal Rice and the Great Famine of 1876-78 in India

  Sayako Kanda

  The 19th World Economic History Congress, 

  2022.07

  , 

  Oral presentation (general)

• Rice Exports from Bengal during the Great Famine of 1876-78: A Preliminary Study

  Sayako Kanda

  ANGIS Tokyo 2021, 

  2021.12

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  Oral presentation (general)

• 工場労働者をめぐる中印比較：綿工業を事例として

  神田さやこ, 富澤芳亜

  [Domestic presentation]  社会経済史学会第90回全国大会 (オンライン) , 

  2021.05

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  Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), 社会経済史学会

• 19世紀インドにおける「エネルギー多様性社会」の誕生

  KANDA Sayako

  [Domestic presentation]  社会経済史学会第86回全国大会, 

  2017.05

  , 

  Oral presentation (general)

• From Thrace to Bengal: Greek Merchants and the Trade in Chunam and Salt in Early Colonial Bengal

  KANDA Sayako

  [International presentation]  Peoples, Places and Cultures in Asian and World History, 1300-1900 (Pune, Maharashtra, India) , 

  2017.01

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  Oral presentation (general), Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

• Colonization and Changes in the Market in Early Nineteenth-Century India, with Special Reference to the Salt Market in Eastern India

  2007

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  2009

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, KANDA Sayako, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), No Setting

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  Cheshire salt, which was imported from Britain, had become dominant in the Eastern Indian market by the mid-nineteenth century. This project explored that this transformation in the market was brought about not only by the British East India Company's salt monopoly and the strong pressure from British industrial and shipping interests, but also by severe competition among different varieties of salt, which was generated by indigenous economic, cultural and ecological factors, including mercantile activities, consumers' taste, and the availability of fuel.

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Awards 【 Display / hide 】

• 第60回日経・経済図書文化賞

  神田さやこ, 2017.11, 日本経済新聞社、日本経済研究センター, 『塩とインド：市場・商人・イギリス東インド会社』

• 社会経済史学会賞

  KANDA Sayako, 2004.04, 社会経済史学会, 「ベンガル塩商人の活動とイギリス東インド会社の塩独占体制（1788～1836年）」、『社会経済史学』第68巻第2号（2002年7月）、21－42頁。

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

• TOPICS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ASIA

  2024

• SEMINAR: ECONOMIC HISTORY

  2024

• RESEARCH SEMINAR D

  2024

• RESEARCH SEMINAR C

  2024

• RESEARCH SEMINAR (THESIS)

  2024

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

• the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies

  　

• the socio-economic history society

  　

• Business History Society of Japan

  　

Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

• 2019.01

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  2023.01

  Managing Editor, Asian Association of World Historians

• 2017.01

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  Present

  常任理事, 社会経済史学会

• 2013.01

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  2016.12

  評議員, 経営史学会

• 2011.01

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  Present

  Editor, the socio-economic history society

• 2011.01

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  2012.12

  研究組織委員, 経営史学会

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