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Europe's India : Words, People, Empires, 1500-1800 / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) : 22 halftones, 3 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674972261
  • 9780674977532
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48240540
LOC classification:
  • DS446S78
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Before and Beyond "Orientalism" -- 1. On the Indo-Portuguese Moment -- 2. The Question of "Indian Religion" -- 3. Of Coproduction: The Case of James Fraser, 1730-1750 -- 4. The Transition to Colonial Knowledge -- By Way of Conclusion: On India's Eu rope -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674977532

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Before and Beyond "Orientalism" -- 1. On the Indo-Portuguese Moment -- 2. The Question of "Indian Religion" -- 3. Of Coproduction: The Case of James Fraser, 1730-1750 -- 4. The Transition to Colonial Knowledge -- By Way of Conclusion: On India's Eu rope -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX

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When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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