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Dutch sources on South Asia c. 1600 - 1825. Volume 4, Mission to Madurai : Dutch embassies to the Nayaka Court of Madurai in the seventeenth century / Markus Vink.
Van Pelt Library DS331 .V565 2012 v.4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vink, Marcus P. M.
- Series:
- Dutch sources on South Asia c. 1600 - 1825 ; v. 4.
- Dutch sources on South Asia c. 1600 - 1825 ; v. 4
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--Archives.
- Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
- Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--History--Sources.
- Dutch--India--Madurai--History--Sources.
- Dutch.
- Commerce.
- History.
- Madurai (India)--History--Sources--Bibliography.
- Madurai (India).
- India--Commerce--Europe--History--17th century.
- India.
- Europe--Commerce--India--History--17th century.
- Europe.
- Madurai (India)--Economic conditions.
- India--Madurai.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Archives.
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- 649 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Mission to Madurai : Dutch embassies to the Nayaka Court of Madurai in the seventeenth century
- Dutch embassies to the Nayaka Court of Madurai in the seventeenth century
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Manohar, 2012.
- Language Note:
- Original texts in Dutch and English translation.
- Summary:
- "Court journeys represent the most spectacular sub-genre in Western travel literature and the history of cross-cultural interaction. Preceded by an incisive introduction on images and ideologies of Dutch-South Asian contact, these are the hitherto unpublished accounts and related documents of three encounters between representatives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC after its Dutch initials), one of the great northern European chartered companies of the age of mercantilism, and the state of Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in southeast India in the second half of the seventeenth century. A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex courtship fraught with tensions between two ill-suited partners, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the 'age of contained conflict.'"--Jkt.
- Notes:
- Dutch sources on South Asia c. 1600 - 1825 is a series dedicated to the sources that have been produced by people connected to the Dutch East India Company or VOC.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [591]-613) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788173049316
- 8173049319
- OCLC:
- 794685783
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