India and Europe in the global eighteenth century
By: edited by, Simon Davies, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, and Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa
Series: Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2014:01
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780729410809
Subjects: Intercultural communication; History; Imperialism; Foreign relations; Colonization; Social aspects
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibilographical references (pages 313-333) and index.