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India in early modern English travel writings : protestantism, enlightenment, and toleration / by Rita Banerjee.
Author
Banerjee, Rita
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Language
English
Published/Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Description
x, 275 pages : illustrations, 2 maps ; 25 cm.
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PR438.T72 B36 2021
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Subject(s)
English prose literature
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17th century
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History and criticism
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Travelers' writings, English
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India
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History and criticism
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India
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In literature
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India
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Description and travel
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Literary criticism
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Series
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 226.
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Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 1573-4188 ; volume 226
Summary note
"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, Rita Banerjee argues that travelwriters, many of them avid Protestants, seek to negativize India by constructing her in opposition to Europe, the supposed norm, by deliberately erasing affinities and indulging in the politics of disavowal. However, some travelogues show a neutral stance by dispassionate ethnographic reporting, indicating a growing empirical trend. Yet others, influenced by the Enlightenment ideas of diversity, demonstrate tolerance of alien practices and, occasionally, acceptance of the superior rationality of the other's customs"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
(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.
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ISBN
9789004420960 (hardcover ; : acid-free paper)
9004420967 (hardcover ; : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2021027129
OCLC
1262688102
Other standard number
40030697642
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