Three ways to be alien : travails and encounters in the early modern world /

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay.

Three ways to be alien : travails and encounters in the early modern world / Sanjay Subrahmanyam. - Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xviii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps. - The Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : three (and more) ways to be alien -- A Muslim prince in counter-reformation Goa -- The perils of realpolitik -- Unmasking the Mughals -- By way of conclusion.

A study of individual trajectories in an early modern global context.



9781611680195 9781283875042




.AAli bin Yusuf .AAdil Khan, -approximately 1567.


Italians--Mogul Empire.
British--History--Middle East--16th century.
Iranians--History--India--Goa (State)--16th century.
Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects--History--16th century.


Electronic Books.

DS498 / .T474 2011