Research Faculty

OGAWA Michihiro

OGAWA Michihiro

Associate Professor
Department of South Asian Studies,
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
michi.ogw[at]
Research theme: Socio-Economic History of South Asia

Socio-Economic History of South Asia

Research Topics

Research activities

Edited Books
  • Matsuo, Mizuho, and Michihiro Ogawa, eds. The Caste Formation in Maharashtra. Vol. 4 of The: Centre for South Asian Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology, 2022.1. [Link]
Thesis
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Socio-Economic Study of Indapur Pargana (1761-1828).” PhD diss., University of Pune (Savitribai Phule Pune University), 2012.
Report
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Madhya Pradesh and Goa.” Effects and Further Potentials of Decentralized Development ―Styles of Stable Democracy Analyzed through Comparative Studies of 29 States in India― Final Report. Edited by Osamu Yoshida. Hiroshima: Hiroshima University, 2023: 113-126.
Articles and Book Chapters
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Inland Trade Networks under the Marathas in the 18th–19th Century with Special Reference to Indāpūr Pargaṇā in Puṇe Subhā.” Connecting the Indian Ocean World Across Sea and Land. Edited by Radhika Seshan, and Ryuto Shimada. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2023: 104-126.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Changes in State Rule and Rural Society in 18th-Century Western India: With a Focus on the Land Revenue System under Maratha Rule.”Acta Asiatica Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture 122 2022.2: 55-74.
  • MIchihiro Ogawa,. “Reconsidering the Caste Construction in Early Modern Maharashtra.” The Caste Formation in Maharashtra. Edited by Mizuho Matsuo, and Michihiro Ogawa. Vol. 4, MINDAS Series of Working Papers: Centre for South Asian Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology (MINDAS), 2022: 27-35. [Link]
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “”The Spatial Analysis of the Transition of the Land Revenue System in Western India (1761 – 1836), with special reference to Indapur Pargana”.” Spaces and Places in Western India :Formations and Delineations. Edited by Bina Sengar, and Laurie Hovell McMillin: Routledge, 2019: 35-50.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. ““Mapping the Transition of the Land Revenue System in Western India from the Pre-Colonial to the Early Colonial India: Evidence from to Indapur Pargana (1761-1836)”.”Journal of Asian Network for GIS-based Historical Studies 3 2016.3: 12-20. [Link]
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. ““Trade Networks of a Pargana and Their Transition in Western India: The Case Indapur Pargana in Pune District, 1780s-1850s”.”Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Platinum Jubilee Session, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2014): Indian History Congress 75 2015.12: 684-689. [Link]
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. ““Internal Structure of Qasba (Town) in the Maratha Kingdom with Special Reference to Qasba Indapur in Pune Suba (District)”.”International Journal of South Asian Studies: The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies 7 2015.8: 135-158.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. ““Merchant Communities in A Qasba (Market Town) of Western India in the Late Maratha and the Early British Period (1760s-1840s)”.” Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600-1980. Edited by Lin Yu-ju, and Madeleine Zelin: Pickering & Chatto, 2015: 142-158.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. ““Trade Network in Indapur Pargana under the Marathas”.” Rethinking Western India, The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion. Edited by Dusan Deak, and Daniel Jasper: Orient BlackSwan, 2014: 156-174.
Conference
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “A Study of the Local Governance of Water Transportation on the Deccan Plateau in Western India from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century.” Presented at the The Seventh Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, June 30 2023, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(Republic of Korea).
  • MIchihiro Ogawa,. “Impact of Monsoon Drought on Agrarian Society on the Deccan Plateau in Western India during the Great Famine (1876-1878).” Presented at the The Seventh Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, June 29 2023, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(Republic of Korea).
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Publishing Precolonial Documents at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Marathi Documents at Peshwa Daftar, Pune.” Presented at the The Association for Asian Studies in Asia, June 24 2023, Kyungpook National University (Republic of Korea).
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Administrative use of Marginal Land in Agrarian Villages of Maharashtra under the Maratha and the British rule.” Presented at the the Twentieth International Conference on Maharashtra, January 6 2023, Savitribai Phule Pune University (India).
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Goa and Madhya Pradesh -Exploring the State Politics.” Presented at the International Workshop on State Politics in India, November 16 2022, Hiroshima University (Japan).
  • Ogawa, Michihiro, and Kojiro Taguchi. “A Sino-Indian comparison: land, taxation, and social systems during the 15th-20th centuries.” Presented at the The Nineteenth World Economic History Congress, July 29 2022, Campus Condorcet (France).
  • Ogawa, Michihiro, and Seemanta Sharma Bhagabati. “Revisiting the Great Famine (1876–1878) in the Krishna River Basin in India from a meteorological perspective.” Presented at the The Nineteenth World Economic History Congress, July 24 2022, Campus Condorcet (France).
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “A Socio-Economic study of Deshmukhi Watan in the period of the transition from the pre-colonial to the colonial rule -with special focus on Indapur Pargana.” Presented at the Two Days’ International Seminar on Western Maharashtra in Transition (17th to 20th Century), Chhtrapati Shivaji University, Satara, India, April 2022, Chhatrapati Shivaji College, Satara (India). (in Marathi)
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Sharing of Local Knowledge in the Process of Colonization in Western India — Comparison of Historical Documents in Marathi and English in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Presented at the Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference, University of Hawaii (Hybrid), March 26 2022.
  • Seemanta Sharma Bhagabati, Michihiro Ogawa. “Meteorological Characteristics of the Great Famine in Deccan Plateau in the Nineteenth-Century India.” Presented at the The Eighth International Conference on Asian Network for GIS-based Historical Studies, The University of Tokyo (Japan, online), December 4 2021.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “”Circulation of Silver Coins in the Period of the Transition from the Maratha rule to the British rule with a Special Focus on Western Maharashtra in the Period of the 1780s – the 1840s”.” Presented at the The Nineteenth International Conference on Maharashtra Society and Culture, University of Oxford (UK, online), September 23 2021.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “A Study of Socio-Economic Change and Continuity under the Colonization in Western India with a Focus on the Land Revenue System from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Early Nineteenth Century.” Presented at the The second International Conference on Indian Business & Economic History, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (India, online), August 25 2021.
  • Michihiro Ogawa, Seemanta Sharma Bhagabati. “Reconsidering the Great Famine of Western India (1876-1878) from Meteorological and Hydrological Perspectives.” Presented at the Association for Asian Studies, Virtual Annual Conference 2021, Online, March 26 2021.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Colonisation of Western India in the Early Nineteenth Century Reconsidered: Emphasizing the Land Revenue System Transition from Pre-Colonial to Colonial Periods.” Presented at the The Third Asian Consortium of South Asian Studies Conference, National University of Singapore, November 22 2019.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Reconsidering the Great Famine of Western India (1876-1878) from A Metrological Perspective.” Presented at the The Third World Congress of Environmental History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), July 22 2019.
  • MIchihiro Ogawa,. “The Activities of European Merchants under the India Monetary System in Western India with Special Reference to Bombay and Pune in the Late Eighteenth Century.” Presented at the 18th World Economic History Congress, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), July 30 2018.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Reconsidering the Great Famine of Western India (1876-1878) from Perspectives on Mortality and Climate.” Presented at the Association for Asian Studies in Asia 2018, the India Habitat Centre (India), July 8 2018.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Development of the Bombay City after the Opening of the Railway in the Mid Nineteenth Century with special focus on port facilities.” Presented at the The Tenth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), the Chiang Mai International Exhibition and Convention Centre (Thailand), July 22 2017.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Development of the Port City “Bombay” after the Opening of the Railway in the Mid-Nineteenth Century –with special reference to cotton industry.” Presented at the The Fifth International Conference on Asian Network for GIS-based Historical Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman (Philippines), December 3 2016.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Mapping the Transition of the Land Revenue System in Western India from the Pre-Colonial to the Early Colonial Period.” Presented at the The Sixteenth International Conference on Maharashtra: Culture and Society, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathawada University (India), January 8 2016.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Market Structure of Early Modern Maharashtra and Its Transition during the Early Colonial Rule.” Presented at the ICHR-JSPS Inaugural Symposium celebrating the Collaboration of Indo-Japan Historical Studies, India Habitat Centre (India), January 6 2016.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Interactions between the Humans and the Military Animals in the Pre-Colonial India.” Presented at the The Third Conference of East Asian Environmental History, Kagawa University (Japan), October 24 2015.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Networks of Market Towns (Qasbas) in Western India from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century.” Presented at the Seventeenth World Economic History Congress, Kyoto International Conference Center, August 6 2015.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Development of the Port City ‘Bombay’ after the Opening of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.” Presented at the Seventeenth World Economic History Congress, Kyoto International Conference Center, August 5 2015.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Mapping the Transition of the Local Revenue System in Western India from the Pre-Colonial Period to the Colonial Period -with special reference to Indapur Pargana.” Presented at the The Third International Conference of Angis (Asian Network of GIS-based Historical Studies), Silpakorn University (Thailand), January 5 2015.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Local Network and Their Transition in Western India, the case of Indapur Pargana in Pune District (1780s-1850s).” Presented at the Indian History Congress (Seventy-five Session), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), December 27 2014.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Interactions between the Marathas and Military Animals with Special Reference to Late-Eighteenth-Century Pune District.” Presented at the The Fifteenth International Conference on Maharashtra Society and Culture, Arizona State University (USA), April 25 2014.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Merchant Community in Qasbas (Market Towns) under the Marathas and the Bombay Presidency (1780s-1840s).” Presented at the Sixteenth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch University (South Africa), July 12 2012.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “Migration of Saranjamdars under the Marathas (1761-1818).” Presented at the The Fourteenth International Conference on Maharashtra Society and Culture, Mumbai University (India), January 7 2012.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Economic- Political Situation of the Assigned Villages in Pargana under the Marathas (1761-1799) with the special reference to Indapur Pargana.” Presented at the Indian History Congress (Seventy-first Session), University of Gour Banga (India), February 11 2011.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Trade Network in Indapur Pargana under the Marathas and the Bombay Presidency (Late 18th-Early 19th Century).” Presented at the The Thirteenth International Conference on Maharashtra Society and Culture, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava (Slovakia), June 19 2010.
  • Ogawa, Michihiro. “The Role of Kamavisdar in Pargana under the Marathas (1761-1818) with special reference to Indapur Patgana.” Presented at the National Seminar on “New Perspective on Maratha History”, University of Pune (India), February 19 2010.

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