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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orientalism.

History.

Europeans--Attitudes.

Europeans.

Europe--Civilization--Indic influences.

Europe.

Civilization.

India--Civilization--European influences.

India.

India--Foreign public opinion, European--History.

Europeans--Attitudes--History.

Orientalism--History.

Civilization--European influences.

Civilization--Indic influences.

Public opinion, European.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 394 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674972261

0674972260

OCLC:

956775335