André Wink

Wink was born in 1953, in Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea (present day Jayapura, Indonesia). He studied at Leiden University, and in 1984, he received a Ph.D. in Indian history under the guidance of Indologist J.C. Heesterman. Until 1990, he researched and published from the Netherlands. He became a professor at the University of Wisconsin in 1989, from where he has contributed ever since to the field of history of India, Indonesia and countries near the Indian Ocean. He became a senior fellow in 2009.

Major publications

• Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarajya, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986
• Al-Hind, the making of the Indo-Islamic world, volume I: Early medieval India and the expansion of Islam, 7th–11th centuries, Leiden: Brill, 1990. – second edition 1991; third edition 1996; Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-90-04-09249-5
• Al-Hind, the making of the Indo-Islamic World, volume II: The slave kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th–13th centuries, Leiden: Brill, 1997; Oxford University Press 1999, ISBN 978-90-04-10236-1
• "Akbar", Oneword Publication, 2008; ISBN 978-1-85168-605-6
• Nomads in the sedentary world (editor along with Anatoly Michailovich Khazanov), Psychology Press, 2001; ISBN 978-0-7007-1369-1
• Al-Hind: the making of the Indo-Islamic world, volume III: Indo-Islamic society, 14th–15th centuries, Leiden: Brill 2003, Oxford University Press 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-13561-1
• "Post Nomadic Empires: From the Mongols to the Mughals", (edited by Peter Fibiger Bang and C.A. Bayly), Palgrave Macmillan UK 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-30841-1
• "Sovereignty and universal dominion in South Asia", Sage Publications (journal), 2016
• The Making of the Indo-Islamic World c.700–1800 CE, Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN 9781108278287