Ethnography and encounter : : the Dutch and English in seventeenth-century South Asia / / Guido van Meersbergen.

• Superior document: European expansion and indigenous response ; Volume 35
• VerfasserIn: Van Meersbergen, Guido,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: European expansion and indigenous response ; Volume 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The global operations of the East India Companies were profoundly shaped by European perceptions of foreign lands. Providing a cultural perspective absent from existing economic and institutional histories, Ethnography and Encounter is the first book to systematically explore how Company agents'...

Table of Contents

• General Series Editor's Preface
• List of Maps and Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Glossary
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Ethnography and Encounter
• 2 Company Writing
• 3 The East India Companies in Seventeenth-Century South Asia
• 4 Plan of the Book
• PART 1: Corporate Ethnography
• 1 Company Writing and Early Modern Ethnography
• 1 Ethnography on Early Expeditions
• 2 Instructions: Cordiality and Caution
• 3 Civility and Barbarism
• 4 Despotism
• 5 Character and Complexion
• 6 "Moors" and "Gentiles"
• 2 Writing Routines and the Making of Company Discourse
• 1 'Continuall and True Iournalls'
• 2 The VOC's Memoir for the Writing of Reports
• 3 The Logic of Company Writing
• PART 2: Accommodation and Conflict
• 3 Trade Relations and Representations: The EIC and VOC in Gujarat
• 1 'The Only Key to Open All the Rich and Best Trades'
• 2 Brokerage and Trust
• 4 'No Thing but Feare Keepes a Moore in Awe': Local Conflict and Quotidian Exchange
• 1 Raids and Retaliations
• 2 Mutual Accommodations and Quotidian Exchange
• PART 3: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
• 5 Ceremonies of Submission: Diplomacy in a Mughal Register
• 1 Diplomacy and Mughal Court Culture
• 2 The Companies and Khilʾat
• 3 Diplomatic Communication and Self-Representation
• 6 Gratifying Mughal Tastes: Company Gift-Giving Strategies
• 1 Local Tastes and Global Gifts
• 2 Gifts and Interaction Ritual
• 3 Gift-Giving and Ethnographic Discourse
• PART 4: The Birth of Company Settlements
• 7 'Safe Habitations': Colonial Settlement in Ceylon and Madras
• 1 'Under Your Owne Command': The Settling of Madras
• 2 'A Permanent Colony': Establishing Dutch Power on Ceylon
• 8 Governing Pluriform Populations: Company Rule in an Asian Setting
• 1 The Eic and Mestization
• 2 Cultures of Governance: The Case of Madras
• 3 Governing "Others": Voc Rule on Ceylon
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.