Encounters on the opposite coast
Subtitle: the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the seventeenth century
By: by Markus P.M. Vink
Series: European expansion and indigenous response -- volume 17
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9789004272637; 9789004272620
Subjects: Commerce; Acculturation; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie; Relations; Culture conflict; History
Description: "In Encounters of the Opposite Coast, Markus Vink provides a narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC), one of the great northern European chartered companies, and Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in southeast India (c. 1645-1690). A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex relationship fraught with tensions, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the 'age of contained conflict.'  Drawing extensively on archival materials, Markus Vink covers a topic neglected by both Company historians and their Indian counterparts and sheds important light on a 'black hole in South Indian history'"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Images and ideologies; title: Treasure for textiles : the import trade; title: Treasure for textiles : the export trade; title: First encounter : a false start, 1645-1657; title: From sideshow to main theatre of war, 1658-1669; title: The bitter fruits of war, 1670-1679; title: Splendid isolation, 1680-1690; title: Personalia; title: Currency, weights, and measures; title: Glossary.