India in early modern English travel writings : protestantism, enlightenment, and toleration /
"Comparing the variant ideologies of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European travelogues, India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives concerns a relatively neglected area of study and often overlooked writers. Relating the narratives to contemporary ideas and beliefs, R...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | SMRT ;
226 Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; 226 Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; 226 Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 226 Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 226 Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions v. 226 |
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Table of Contents:
- The travel writers: audience, ideology, and class
- The Mughal court over the years: riches, festivities, law, and governance
- India: a seventeenth-century trading destination
- Reason and religion during the Enlightenment in England: scientific enquiry, deism, and toleration
- Religion, society, and customs in India
- Women in India: the "sati" and the harem
- European historiography and Mughal reign
- Conclusion: Constructing selves and others
- (from table of contents) Introduction
- The travel writers: audience, ideology, and class
- The Mughal court over the years: riches, festivities, law, and governance
- India: a seventeenth-century trading destination
- Reason and religion during the Enlightenment in England: scientific enquiry, deism, and toleration
- Religion, society, and customs in India
- Women in India: the "sati" and the harem
- European historiography and Mughal reign
- Conclusion: Constructing selves and others
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Evolution of the Genre through Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
- Present Volume : Aims, Content, and Methodology
- Prior Texts in the Area
- The Travel Writers : Audience, Ideology, and Class
- The Mughal Court over the Years : Riches, Festivities, Law, and Governance
- Hawkins and Jahangir's Court
- Thomas Roe's Construction of the Mughal Court
- Absence of Laws and Absolutism
- Private Property
- Corruption
- Metaphor of the Theatre
- Mughal Festivities and Show of Riches : Roe and Bernier
- Frangois Bernier's Account
- European Witnesses to the Weighing Ceremonies of the Emperors : Roe, Coryat, Terry, and Thevenot
- Barbarity and the Mughal Court
- India : A Seventeenth-Century Trading Destination
- Profitability of Indian Trade
- Impediments to EIC Trade and Complaints of Corruption
- Growth of EIC Trade over the Years : Removal of Impediments
- East Indian Trade and European Rivalry
- Trade and Colonization
- Colonization and the Necessity of Force
- EIC : Privateering, Monopoly, Interloping, and Private Trade
- Private Trade
- Reason and Religion during the Enlightenment in England : Scientific Enquiry, Deism, and Toleration
- Empiricism, Mathematical Inquiry, and Natural Philosophy : Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and the Royal Society
- John Locke, the Rejection of Innate and Universal Ideas, and Diversity of Customs
- Faith, Reason, and Toleration
- Toleration and Protestant Colonization
- Rise of Deism or Natural Religion and Toleration
- Jesuit "Accommodation, " Universal Religion, and Toleration
- Religion, Society, and Customs in India
- Islam and Falsehood : Mughal Court and Christian Doctrine
- Terry, Gentile Religion, and Grace
- From Courtly Religion to the Practice of the Masses : Hindu Temples, Gods and Goddesses
- Idolatry, Devil-Worship, and Superstition
- Hindu Rituals, Irrationality, and Irreligion
- Gentile Religion and Monotheism : Jesuits and Other European Travelers
- Caste, Pollution, and Ethnography
- Women in India : The "Sati" and the Harem
- "Sati"
- The Harem
- European Historiography and Mughal Reign
- Roe and Jahangir's Reign
- Succession War during Shah Jahan's Reign
- French Representations of the War of Succession : Bernier and Tavernier
- Comparing Manucci and Bernier
- John Ogilby's Version of the Fratricidal War
- English Valor and Indian Barbarity
- Conclusion : Constructing Selves and Others
- Barbarity, Racism, and Alienness
- Parochial versus Cosmopolites
- References
- Index : India in Early Modern English Travel Writings