Travels in India in the Seventeenth Century
Author | : Sir Thomas Roe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Thomas Roe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Roe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-05-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780461913040 |
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Author | : Jean-Baptiste Tavernier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) was one of the most renowned travelers of 17th century Europe. The son of a French Protestant who had fled Antwerp to escape religious persecution, Tavernier was a jewel merchant who between 1632 and 1668 made six voyages to the East. The countries he visited (most more than once) included present-day Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. In 1676 he published his two-volume Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier (The six voyages of Jean Baptiste Tavernier). An abridged and very imperfect English translation of the book appeared in 1677. The first modern scholarly edition in English, presented here, was published in 1889, with translation, notes, and a biographical sketch of Tavernier by Dr. Valentine Ball (1843-95), a British civil servant with the Indian Geological Service. Among the most memorable chapters in the book are those that recount Tavernier's visits to the diamond mines of India and his inspection of the jewels of the Great Mogul. Tavernier was not a scholar or an educated linguist, and after his initial popularity in the 17th century his authority waned, as historians and others questioned the accuracy of his observations. In the 20th century, however, Tavernier's reputation rose, as such important historians as Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel used the detailed information he recorded about the prices and qualities of goods and about business and commercial practices in their pioneering studies of economic and social history. The book contains several appendices by Ball about famous diamonds (including the historic Koh-i-Noor Diamond now belonging to the British royal family), diamond mines in India and Borneo, ruby mines in Burma, and sapphire washings in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A fold-out map shows Tavernier's voyages in India and the mines he visited.
Author | : James Talboys Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Willem Ysbrandsz Bontekoe |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0415344727 |
Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage was one of the most popular books in which the Dutch seventeenth century public delighted and it continued to be reprinted throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author | : François Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rita Banerjee |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004448268 |
Comparing the variant ideologies of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European travelogues, India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives concerns a relatively neglected area of study and often overlooked writers. Relating the narratives to contemporary ideas and beliefs, Rita Banerjee argues that travel writers, many of them avid Protestants, seek to negativize India by constructing her in opposition to Europe, the supposed norm, by deliberately erasing affinities and indulging in the politics of disavowal. However, some travelogues show a neutral stance by dispassionate ethnographic reporting, indicating a growing empirical trend. Yet others, influenced by the Enlightenment ideas of diversity, demonstrate tolerance of alien practices and, occasionally, acceptance of the superior rationality of the other's customs.
Author | : James Talboys Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J N Das Gupta |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781018310411 |
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Author | : Nishat Manzar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000395375 |
This volume takes a pan-Indian view of different professional groups and service providers mainly based in towns. While Persian texts provide limited information on the subject, European sources in the form of travelogues, letters, memoirs and official reports unfold an interesting panorama on the subject. Here focus has been on the seventeenth century, as some prominent European share holders’ Companies established their warehouses-cum-residential complexes in India in this very century. Officials of these Companies sent to India or elsewhere, maintained proper records of their transactions and interaction with the state officials, common people, servants inside the household and outside, and through their reports attracted many European freebooters also to have a firsthand experience of the East. Here from, we get numerous details on the social life, working conditions, wages and other aspects of life of people who earned their livelihood through manual labour, as conditions in India appeared novel to them and they meticulously recorded everything with much interest. Their information is corroborated with the Indian sources. In both types of sources – Persian and European – artisans, labourers and service providers have generally been projected as ‘poor’, ‘miserable’ and ‘wretched’; who faced exploitation at all levels. Still, their contribution to the economy and society was imperative. Aspects of life of such people deserve a detailed discussion as this volume amply proves. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.