Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 2, South Asia (Asia in the Making of Europe Volume III)

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the __New York Times Book Review__, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: __A Century of Advance__, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples. Book Two Contents List of Abbreviations Note to Illustrations List of Illustrations List of Maps Part III. The European Images of Asia Introduction Chapter IX: The Mughul Empire before Aurangzib I. The English and Dutch Profile: First Generation 2. The Mughul Court to 1618 3. Gujarat Unveiled 4. Shah Jahan (r. 1627-58) and His Empire 5. Shah Jahan and His Sons Chapter X: The Empire of Aurangzib 1. The Court, the Nobility, and the Army 2. The Provinces 3. Surat 4. Bombay and the Portuguese Ports 5. The Deccan Wars, Rajputs, and Sivaji 6. Religious Beliefs and Practices 7. Economy and Society Chapter XI: From Goa to Cape Comorin 1. Goa, the Metropole 2. Bijapur 3. Kanara 4. Malabar and the Portuguese 5. Malabar and the Dutch Chapter XII: Insular South Asia 1. The Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes 2. Ceylon A. Sources B. The Land and Its Products C. Government and Society Chapter XIII: Coromandel 1. The Jesuit Enterprises 2. The Advent of the Dutch and English 3. Hinduism at Pulicat (Tamilnadu) 4. The Downfall of Two Empires: Vijayanagar and Golconda Appendix: The Castes of South Asia in the Seventeenth Century (According to European Authors) Index Annotation This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in theNew York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III:A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples Part of Volume III of a series which traces European encounters with Asia, and the ways in which those encounters altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science and religion since the Renaissance. The books of the third volume of this work cover the 17th century. The geographical profile of the Indian subcontinent had first been traced out in the Portuguese secular writings of the sixteenth century. First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization