Like its companion volume Mughals and Franks, this book deploys the concept of 'connected histories' to shed important light on aspects of the history of early modern Eurasia. It critically analyses the archival data to challenge certain enduring beliefs regarding temporal and geographical frontiers in the task of history writing. Like its companion volume Mughals and Franks, this bookdeploys the concept of 'connected histories' to shed important light on aspects of the history of early modern Eurasia. While the main focus is on relations between Europeans and South Asia, other parts of the world have also been discussed in detail. In this volume Sanjay Subrahmanyam critically analyses the archival data to challenge certain enduring beliefs regarding temporal and geographical frontiers in the task of historywriting. He questions old debates and examines hitherto neglected aspects of South and Southeast Asian history.This will interest students and scholars of Indian and South Asian history, medieval history, early modern India, as well as politics. INDICE: Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations On the Window that was India On Indian Views of the Portuguese in Asia, 1500-1700 Persianization and 'Mercantilism' in Bay of Bengal History, 1400-1700 Violence, Grievance, and Memory in Early Modern South Asia Sixteenth-century Millenarianism from the Tagues to the Ganges European Chroniclers and the Mughals Manila, Melaka, Mylapore: A Dominican Voyage through the Indies, circa 1600 Dutch Tribulations in Seventeenth-century Mrauk-U Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-807716-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 276
- Fecha Publicación: 03/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés