Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, author.

Title Europe's India : words, people, empires, 1500-1800 / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
©2017

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 394 pages) : illustrations
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English.
Subject Europe -- Civilization -- Indic influences.
Europe.
Civilization.
India -- Civilization -- European influences.
India.
India -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History.
History.
Europeans -- Attitudes -- History.
Orientalism -- History.
Europeans -- Attitudes.
Europeans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Orientalism.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Civilization -- European influences.
Civilization -- Indic influences.
Public opinion, European.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. Europe's India. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017] 9780674972261 0674972260 (DLC) 2016036668 (OCoLC)956775335
ISBN 9780674977532 (electronic book)
067497753X (electronic book)
9780674972261
0674972260
0674977556
9780674977556
Standard No. 10.4159/9780674977532