Xenophobia in seventeenth-century India
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Xenophobia in seventeenth-century India
（LUP dissertations）
Leiden University Press, 2009
1st Leiden University Press ed
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Xenophobia and consciousness in seventeenth-century India : six cases from the Deccan
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"Entirely revised from the author's dissertation Xenophobia and consciousness in seventeenth-century India : six cases from the Deccan, 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-305) and index
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Description
It is tempting to think of precolonial India as a harmonious society, but was it? This study brings evidence from new and unexpected sources to take position in the sensitive debate over that question. From the investigation of six conflicts in the Deccan region it draws conclusions about group behaviour that put modern clashes in context. Some of the conflicts under investigation appear odd today but were very real to the involved, as the antagonism between Left and Right Hand castes was for about a thousand years. Other conflicts continue to the present day: the seventeenth century saw lasting changes in the relationship between Hindus and Muslims as well as the rise of patriotism and early nationalism in both India and Europe. This book carefully brings to life the famous and obscure people who made the era, from the Dutch painter Heda to queen Khadija and from maharaja Shivaji to the English rebel Keigwin.
Table of Contents
- Contents - 6 Acknowledgements - 9 Introduction The ethics of writing the Precolonial - 12 Ch1. A Dutch Painter in Bijapur: National sentiment and European-ness as reflected in the Relation between the Dutch and the Portuguese in the Early Century - 29 Ch2. The Queen and the Usurper: Deccanis vs. Westerners in Bijapur around 1636 - 85 Ch3. The Right and Left hand disputes in Chennapatnam in 1652-55: a Minimal group Experiment in Seventeenth-Century India - 116 Ch4. Saying one thing, doing another? Shivaji and Deccani Patriotism 1674-1680 - 164 Ch5. Anxiety in Aurangzeb's Deccan Marathas, Sidis and Keigwin
- s Rebellion 1683-84 - 202 Ch6. Madanna, Akkanna and the Brahmin Revolution in Golkonda 1674-86 - 235 Conclusion Human Nature in a Seventeenth-Century Environment - 267 Epilogue Aurangzeb/Shivaji and the Eighteenth Century - 276 APPENDIX I DUTCH USAGE FOR MUSLIM AND HINDU - 296 APPENDIX II AURANZEB ON STRATAGEM - 298 APPENDIX III ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF SHIVAJI'S AND SIDI MAS'UD'S LETTERS TO MALOJI GHORPADE - 299 LIST OF ABBREVIATED REFERENCES - 304 REPOSITORIES OF UNPUBLISHED SOURCES - 305 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY - 306 INDEX - 317
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