Three Ways to Be Alien : Travails & Encounters in the Early Modern World

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

ISBN 10: 1584659920 / ISBN 13: 9781584659921

Published by Brandeis University Press, 2011

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Synopsis:

Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a “Persian” prince of Bijapur (in central India, no less) held hostage by the Portuguese at Goa; English traveler and global schemer Anthony Sherley, whose writings reveal a surprisingly nimble understanding of realpolitik in the emerging world of the early seventeenth century; and Nicolò Manuzzi, an insightful Venetian chronicler of the Mughal Empire in the later seventeenth century who drifted between jobs with the Mughals and various foreign entrepôts, observing all but remaining the eternal outsider. In telling the fascinating story of floating identities in a changing world, Subrahmanyam also succeeds in injecting humanity into global history and proves that biography still plays an important role in contemporary historiography.

About the Author: SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM is the Navin & Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA. He is the author of numerous books, including The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Three Ways to Be Alien : Travails & ...
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New