TY  - BOOK
AU  - Subrahmanyam,Sanjay
TI  - Europe`s India : words, people, empires, 1500-1800 
SN  - 9780674972261
AV  - DS446 .S78 2017
U1  - 303.48240540903 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Europeans
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - History
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - Europe
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Indic influences
KW  - India
KW  - European influences
KW  - Foreign public opinion, European
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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.--
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