India and Europe in the global eighteenth century

Author(s)

• Davies, Simon
• Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv
• Sánchez Espinosa, Gabriel

Bibliographic Information

India and Europe in the global eighteenth century

edited by Simon Davies, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts and Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa

（Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2014:01）

Voltaire Foundation, c2014

• : pbk

Note

"Revised versions of selected papers from a symposium held at Queen's University Belfast in 2011"--Acknowledgements

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-333) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Introduction Anthony Strugnell, A view from afar: India in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes Claire Gallien, British orientalism, Indo-Persian historiography and the politics of global knowledge Javed Majeed, Globalising the Goths: 'The siren shores of Oriental literature' in John Richardson's A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English (1777-1780) Deirdre Coleman, 'Voyage of conception': John Keats and India Sonja Lawrenson, 'The country chosen of my heart': the comic cosmopolitanism of The Orientalist, or, electioneering in Ireland, a tale, by myself Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Orientalism and 'textual attitude': Bernier's appropriation by Southey and Owenson Felicia Gottmann, Intellectual history as global history: Voltaire's Fragments sur l'Inde and the problem of enlightened commerce James Watt, Fictions of commercial empire, 1774-1782 Gabriel Sanchez Espinosa, The Spanish translation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's La Chaumiere indienne: its fortunes and significance in a country divided by ideology, politics and war John McAleer, Displaying its wares: material culture, the East India Company and British encounters with India in the long eighteenth century Mogens R. Nissen, The Danish Asiatic Company: colonial expansion and commercial interests Lakshmi Subramanian, Whose pirate? Reflections on state power and predation on India's western littoral Florence D'Souza, A comparative study of English and French views of pre-colonial Surat Seema Alavi, The Mughal decline and the emergence of new global connections in early modern India Summaries List of contributors Bibliography Index

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• NCID: BB14749000
• ISBN:
  • 9780729410809
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 341 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 303.482540409033
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Intercultural communication -- India -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Imperialism -- Social aspects -- India -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : India -- Foreign relations -- Europe
  • LCSH : Europe -- Foreign relations -- India
  • LCSH : India -- Foreign relations -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Europe -- Foreign relations -- 18th century
  • LCSH : India -- Colonization -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : India -- Colonization -- Social aspects -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB14748970