Europe's India : : Words, People, Empires, 1500-1800 / / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these chan...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 22 halftones, 3 maps |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Before and Beyond "Orientalism" -- 1. On the Indo-Portuguese Moment -- 2. The Question of "Indian Religion" -- 3. Of Coproduction: The Case of James Fraser, 1730-1750 -- 4. The Transition to Colonial Knowledge -- By Way of Conclusion: On India's Eu rope -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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Summary: | When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674977532 9783110649826 9783110540550 9783110625264 9783110547764 9783110543315 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674977532 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sanjay Subrahmanyam. |