Europe's India words, people, empires, 1500-1800 / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
| Author/creator | Subrahmanyam, Sanjay |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2017] |
| Description | xvii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Before and beyond "orientalism" -- On the Indo-Portuguese moment -- The question of "Indian religion" -- Of co-production: the case of James Fraser, 1730-50 -- The transition to colonial knowledge -- By way of conclusion: India's Europe. |
| Abstract | Europe's India tracks the changing place of India in the European imagination over three centuries, by looking closely at a varied cast of actors and sites of interaction, from ports and coastal enclaves to inland courts. The opening of the Cape Route by Vasco da Gama in 1498 created a new set of conditions for dealings between Europe and India (and Asia more generally). In the decades that followed, many different Europeans - traders, military men, missionaries and others - came to India, and produced a set of images regarding the sub-continent that left a deep imprint on the European imagination. Initially, the Europeans were relatively minor actors on the fringes of India, but over time they came to occupy a situation of power, especially after about 1750. The particular strength of this book is its close examination of a number of individual agents, acting both within the European empires, and at their fringes. Though the central axis is that between Europe and India, this is equally a larger exercise in a global and connected history of the early modern world.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016036668 |
| ISBN | 9780674972261 (alk. paper) |
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