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082	0	0	_a303.48240540903 _bSAN/E
100	1		_a Sanjay Subrahmanyam
245	1	0	_aEurope's India: words, people, empires, 1500-1800
260			_aCambridge _bHarvard University Press _c2017
300			_axvii, 394 p. _billustrations, maps
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		0	_aEuropeans
650		0	_aOrientalism
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