Europe’s India: words, people, empires, 1500–1800
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
Europe’s India: words, people, empires, 1500–1800 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017 - xvii, 394 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.--
9780674972261
Europe -- Civilization -- Indic influences.
India -- Civilization -- European influences.
India -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History.
Europeans -- Attitudes -- History.
Orientalism -- History.
303.48240540903 / SUB
Europe’s India: words, people, empires, 1500–1800 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017 - xvii, 394 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.--
9780674972261
Europe -- Civilization -- Indic influences.
India -- Civilization -- European influences.
India -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History.
Europeans -- Attitudes -- History.
Orientalism -- History.
303.48240540903 / SUB
