Europe's India : words, people, empires, 1500-1800 /
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
- England : Harvard University Press, 2017
- xvii, 394 p. ; 24 cm
Europe's India tracks the changing place of India in the European imagination over three centuries, by looking closely at a varied cast of actors and sites of interaction, from ports and coastal enclaves to inland courts. The opening of the Cape Route by Vasco da Gama in 1498 created a new set of conditions for dealings between Europe and India (and Asia more generally). In the decades that followed, many different