Title: India and Europe in the global eighteenth century /
Authors: Davies, Simon; Sánchez Espinosa, Gabriel, 1961-; Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv,; Davies, Simon; Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv,; Sánchez Espinosa, Gabriel, 1961-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Intercultural communication India History; Imperialism Social aspects India History; Communication interculturelle Inde; India Foreign relations Europe.; Europe Foreign relations India.; India Foreign relations; Europe Foreign relations; India Colonization History; India Colonization Social aspects History.; Inde Relations; Europe Relations; Inde; Inde Colonisation
Abstract: "The long eighteenth century was a period of major transformation for Europe and India as imperialism heralded a new global order. Eschewing the reductive perspectives of nation-state histories and postcolonial 'east vs west' oppositions, contributors to India and Europe in the global eighteenth century put forward a more nuanced and interdisciplinary analysis. Using eastern as well as western sources, authors present fresh insights into European and Indian relations and highlight: how anxieties over war and piracy shaped commercial activity; how French, British and Persian histories of India reveal the different geo-political issues at stake; the material legacy of India in European cultural life; how novels parodied popular views of the Orient and provided counter-narratives to images of India as the site of corruption; how social transformations, traditionally characterised as 'Mughal decline', in effect forged new global connections that informed political culture into the nineteenth century."--Page 4 of cover.
Contents: A view from afar : India in Raynal's : Histoire des deux Indes -- British orientalism, Indo-Persian historiography and the politics of global knowledge -- Globalising the Goths : 'The siren shores of Oriental literature' in John Richardson's A dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English (1777-1780) -- 'Voyage of conception' : John Keats and India -- 'The country chosen of my heart' : the comic cosmopolitanism of The Orientalist, or, electioneering in Ireland, a tale, by myself -- Orientalism and 'textual attitude' : Bernier's appropriation by Southey and Owenson -- Intellectual history as global history : Voltaire's Fragments sur l'Inde and the problem of enlightened commerce -- Fictions of commercial empire, 1774-1782 -- The Spanish translation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's La Chaumière indienne : its fortunes and significance in a country divided by ideology, politics and war -- Displaying its wares : material culture, the East India Company and British encounters with India in the long eighteenth century -- The Danish Asiatic Company : colonial expansion and commercial interests -- Whose pirate? reflections on state power and predation on India's western littoral -- A comparative study of English and French views of pre-colonial -- The Mughal decline and the emergence of new global connections in early modern India.