Samuel Berthet is a lecturer at Shiv Nadar University. He holds a doctorate in history and his current research focuses on the history of shipbuilding and ship traffic in the northern Bay of Bengal. Co-editor and co-author of the Dictionnaire de l’Inde contemporaine, edited by Frédéric Landy (Armand Colin, 2010), and writer of Navigation in Chittagong and Circulations in the Northern Bay of Bengal, 2017.