Om Prakash is the former Professor of Economic History at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. His publications include The Dutch Factories in India 1617-1623 (Delhi, 1984); The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal 1630-1720 (Princeton, 1985); Precious Metals and Commerce, The Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean Trade (Variorum, 1994); European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India, Vol. II.5 in the New Cambridge History of India series (Cambridge, 1998). He has also edited European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia (Variorum, 1997); and co-edited with Denys Lombard Commerce and Culture in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1800 (Delhi, 1999); and with Jos Gommans Circumambulations in South Asian History, Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff (Leiden, 2003).