Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor and Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam brings his wide learning and wise judgement to
a fraught subject—European conceptions of India as they are shaped
by exploration, trade, and conquest. Europe's India uncovers the
complex ground of knowledge-formation and knowledge-acquisition, of
self-presentation and self-understanding, while resisting doctrinal
simplicities. This is a thoroughly readable and deeply instructive
work.
*Akeel Bilgrami, author of Secularism, Identity, and
Enchantment*
As one would expect from Sanjay Subrahmanyam, this is a witty,
erudite book with a range that dazzles: from art and art history to
science and technology to history and literature.
*David Washbrook, Trinity College, University of Cambridge*
[A] significant contribution to the field of postcolonial
interpretations of European views of India.
*Choice*
Covering the three centuries between Vasco da Gama’s arrival and
the consolidation of the English East India Company’s trading and
political dominance by the end of the 1700s, Subrahmanyam evaluates
in intricate detail how selected European individuals engaged with
the subcontinent over time, and the extent to which common
‘European’ modes of understanding South Asian society gradually
emerged…An intellectual and cultural history thoroughly rooted in
the politics and institutions of changing times, Europe’s India
charts the social, occupational and ideological differences that
marked Europeans who travelled to pre-modern India, together with
their diverse regional origins and convergences.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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