Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance
Subtitle: South India through European Eyes, 12501625 (Past and Present Publications)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521526135
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; Classic travel writing; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; History: World; History; History - General History; Europe; India; Europe - General; Ethnology--Europe--History; History / Europe / General
First sentence: The India made famous by seventeenth-century European travellers and which occupied an increasingly prominent space in the exotic imagination of the Enlightenment was essentially the India of the Muslim-dominated Mughal empire, with its syncretic court splendour and treacherous imperial politics set against the background of a brahmin-dominated society of naked ascetics, idolatrous temples and inflexible caste rules.