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100	1		_a Sanjay Subrahmanyam
245	1	0	_aThree ways to be alien : travails and encounters in the early modern world
260			_aWaltham, Mass. : _bBrandeis University Press, _cc2011.
300			_axviii, 228p. _bill., maps ;
490	0		_aThe Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures
520			_aSanjay Subrahmanyam’s Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a “Persian” prince of Bijapur (in central India, no less) held hostage by the Portuguese at Goa; English traveler and global schemer Anthony Sherley, whose writings reveal a surprisingly nimble understanding of realpolitik in the emerging world of the early seventeenth century; and Nicolò Manuzzi, an insightful Venetian chronicler of the Mughal Empire in the later seventeenth century who drifted between jobs with the Mughals and various foreign entrepôts, observing all but remaining the eternal outsider. In telling the fascinating story of floating identities in a changing world, Subrahmanyam also succeeds in injecting humanity into global history and proves that biography still plays an important role in contemporary historiography.
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology)
650		0	_aIranians
650		0	_aBritish
650		0	_aItalians _aIndia--Mogul Empire
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