Encounters on the opposite coast : : the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the seventeenth century / / Markus P. M. Vink.

• Superior document: European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume 17
• VerfasserIn: Vink, Marcus P. M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: European expansion and indigenous response ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (782 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Encounters of the Opposite Coast Markus Vink provides a narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC), one of the great northern European chartered companies, and Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in southeast India (c. 1645-1690). A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex relationship fraught with tensions, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the 'age of contained conflict'. Drawing extensively on archival materials, Markus Vink covers a topic neglected by both Company historians and their Indian counterparts and sheds important light on a 'black hole in South Indian history'.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Markus P.M. Vink -- Introduction / Markus P.M. Vink -- Images and Ideologies / Markus P.M. Vink -- Treasure for Textiles: The Import Trade / Markus P.M. Vink -- Treasure for Textiles: The Export Trade / Markus P.M. Vink -- Figures following / Markus P.M. Vink -- First Encounter: A False Start, 1645–1657 / Markus P.M. Vink -- From Sideshow to Main Theatre of War, 1658–1669 / Markus P.M. Vink -- The Bitter Fruits of War, 1670–1679 / Markus P.M. Vink -- Splendid Isolation, 1680–1690 / Markus P.M. Vink -- Personalia / Markus P.M. Vink -- Currency, Weights, and Measures / Markus P.M. Vink -- Glossary / Markus P.M. Vink -- Bibliography / Markus P.M. Vink -- Index / Markus P.M. Vink.