India and Europe in the global eighteenth century

(previously SVEC)
India and Europe in the
global eighteenth century
Edited by
SIMON DAVIES, DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS
and GABRIEL SÁNCHEZ ESPINOSA
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India and Europe in the global eighteenth century
Edited by SIMON DAVIES, DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS and GABRIEL SÁNCHEZ ESPINOSA
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.
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 Sánchez Espinosa, The Spanish translation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s La Chaumière
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
‘Adopting multi-disciplinary approaches, contributors stress the complexity, subtlety and intricacy
of the remarkable global connections between India and Europe in the eighteenth century. This
book will undoubtedly provoke not only lively debate, but also much further research.’
Maria Misra, Keble College, Oxford and author of Vishnu’s crowded temple: India since the Great
Rebellion.
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, January 2014
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