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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.

India and Europe in the Global Eighteenth Century

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    Publisher: Liverpool University Press
    Publication Date: 15/01/2014
    ISBN13: 9780729410809, 978-0729410809
    ISBN10: 0729410803

    Number of Pages: 366

    Non Fiction , History

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    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.

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