Encounters on the Opposite Coast: The Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-27263-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 752 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1323 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

In Encounters of the Opposite Coast Markus Vink provides a narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC), one of the great northern European chartered companies, and Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in southeast India (c. 1645-1690). A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex relationship fraught with tensions, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the 'age of contained conflict'.
Drawing extensively on archival materials, Markus Vink covers a topic neglected by both Company historians and their Indian counterparts and sheds important light on a 'black hole in South Indian history'.

Zielgruppe

All interested in the history of early modern India and the Dutch Republic, and anyone concerned with European overseas expansion and cross-cultural interaction in the Indian Ocean World.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vink, Markus

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Foreword. ix
Preface. xii
List of Plates, Maps and Tables. xiii
Acknowledgements. xvi
Maps. xix
Abbreviations. xxix

Introduction. 1
1 Images and Ideologies. 26
2 Treasure for Textiles: The Import Trade. 148
3 Treasure for Textiles: The Export Trade. 211
Figures following. 301
4 First Encounter: A False Start, 1645–1657. 314
5 From Sideshow to Main Theatre of War, 1658–1669. 356
6 The Bitter Fruits of War, 1670–1679. 411
7 Splendid Isolation, 1680–1690. 502

Personalia. 631
Currency, Weights, and Measures. 633
Glossary. 635
Bibliography. 652
Index. 707

Über Autor(innen)

Markus P.M. Vink, Ph.D. (1998), University of Minnesota, is Professor of History at SUNY Fredonia. He has published monographs and numerous articles on the Indian Ocean World, including The Merchant-Warrior Pacified (OUP, 1991) and Mission to Madurai (Manohar, 2012).