BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sea-treaties.og//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:e6551bbd-a69a-4873-964a-b1fd72f7898f X-WR-CALNAME:iCagenda X-WR-CALDESC:Event Management Extension for Joomla! X-WR-RELCALID:3E26604A-50F4-4449-8B3E-E4F4932D05B5 X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:53ea51a2-ed51-4a3f-8c5f-71a55eb0836c DTSTAMP:20260826T000843Z CATEGORIES:Events CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION;ALTREP="CID:": Thanjavur\, a polity taken over by the Marathas in 1674\, became a content ious kingdom for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The Marathas in Thanj avur controlled some land around Nagapattinam\, the administrative centre of Dutch Coromandel\, making Dutch trade and the provision of essential go ods in southeastern India dependent on Thanjavur. One of the lubricants th at could smoothen the relation between the Dutch and the Thanjavur Maratha court was elephant diplomacy\, the practice of gifting elephants from the Dutch to Thanjavur’s kings. This activity can be traced back to an earlie r period where the Nayak dynasty still ruled Thanjavur\, before the arriva l of the Marathas. However\, under the Maratha rule\, the Dutch-Thanjavur elephant diplomacy accelerated\, largely due to a treaty signed by both pa rties in 1676. This treaty required the Dutch to send a specified number o f elephants annually as a token of recognition to Thanjavur’s Maratha king s. Beyond sending elephants to Thanjavur\, its court also played a very pr oactive role in the elephant diplomacy by sending royal court elephant spe cialists to select elephants on spot in Jaffnapatnam\, in northern Ceylon\ , where the Dutch had access to the island’s elephant population. Through episodes of this Dutch-Thanjavur elephant diplomacy\, this seminar aims to preliminarily revisit received notions of bilateral diplomacy and treatie s in early modern southern Asia.\n \;\nPichayapat ‘Toh’ Naisupap is a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute for History. He earned his MA from the same institution\, where he conducted historical research on D utch-Asian elephant diplomacy in the seventeenth century. His current PhD project explores the entangled history of the Dutch Empire and various ele phant traditions across the Indian Ocean world\, focusing on elephant know ledge\, management\, trade\, and diplomacy. His broad specialism and inter ests include cultural\, intellectual\, and environmental history\, particu larly in the context of Eurasian interactions between and within Europe an d southern Asia.\n\nTo participate\, please register in advance via:\nsemi nars@sea-treaties.org \;\n\n \; DTSTART:20250328T131500Z DTEND:20250328T150000Z GEO:00;0 LOCATION: ORGANIZER: SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:Online Seminar: Pichayapat Naisupap (Leiden University) “The Dutch -Thanjavur Treaty: A Preliminary Look at ‘Proactive’ Elephant Diplomacy\, 1674-1770.” TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://sea-treaties.org/index.php/events/26-online-seminar-the-dutch-t hanjavur-treaty END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR