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100			_aSubrahmanyam, Sanjay
245			_aEurope’s India: words, people, empires, 1500–1800
260			_bHarvard University Press, _c2017 _aCambridge:
300			_axvii, 394 p. ; _c25 cm.
365			_aINR _b899.00
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aEurope'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.--
650			_aEurope -- Civilization -- Indic influences.
650			_aIndia -- Civilization -- European influences.
650			_aIndia -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History.
650			_aEuropeans -- Attitudes -- History.
650			_aOrientalism -- History.
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