Xenophobia in seventeenth-century India / Gijs Kruijtzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruijtzer, Gijs.

Series:

LUP dissertations.

LUP dissertations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xenophobia--India--History--17th century.

Xenophobia.

India--Ethnic relations.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1. Leiden University Press ed.

Place of Publication:

[Leiden] : Leiden University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is tempting to think of precolonial India as a harmonious society, but was it?

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction The ethics of writing the Precolonial; Ch1. A Dutch Painter in Bijapur: National sentiment and European-ness as reflected in the Relation between the Dutch and the Portuguese in the Early Century; Ch2. The Queen and the Usurper: Deccanis vs. Westerners in Bijapur around 1636; Ch3. The Right and Left hand disputes in Chennapatnam in 1652-55: a Minimal group Experiment in Seventeenth-Century India; Ch4. Saying one thing, doing another? Shivaji and Deccani Patriotism 1674-1680; Ch5. Anxiety in Aurangzeb's Deccan Marathas, Sidis and Keigwin

s Rebellion 1683-84Ch6. Madanna, Akkanna and the Brahmin Revolution in Golkonda 1674-86; Conclusion Human Nature in a Seventeenth-Century Environment; Epilogue Aurangzeb/Shivaji and the Eighteenth Century; APPENDIX I DUTCH USAGE FOR MUSLIM AND HINDU; APPENDIX II AURANZEB ON STRATAGEM; APPENDIX III ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF SHIVAJI'S AND SIDI MAS'UD'S LETTERS TO MALOJI GHORPADE; LIST OF ABBREVIATED REFERENCES; REPOSITORIES OF UNPUBLISHED SOURCES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

"Entirely revised from the author's dissertation Xenophobia and consciousness in seventeenth-century India : six cases from the Deccan, 2008"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-305) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612402128

9781282402126

1282402129

9789048510948

9048510945

OCLC:

475679649