Sanjay Subrahmanyam: 13 books

Comment vit-on ailleurs ? Et pourquoi se sent-on bientôt étranger dans sa propre culture ? À cette question, Sanjay Subrahmanyam répond en croisant les destins de trois personnages dont la carrière se joua entre l'Europe, l'Iran et l'Inde monghole aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIe siècles. Comment...

Sanjay Subrahmanyam pose les bases, à partir de l'Inde, d'une histoire globale. Une réflexion menée comme un roman. Le grand historien met son talent de conteur, son esprit critique et sa liberté de pensée au service d'une approche résolument " décentrée " de notre monde. Né à...

Rembrandt et les peintres hollandais furent influencés par l'art de cour moghol. Savaient-ils que ces artistes lointains avaient été eux-mêmes influencés, auparavant, par le naturalisme des Pays-Bas ? Analysant ces paradoxes, Sanjay Subrahmanyam présente les nombreux malentendus à partir desquels...

Comment l'Europe a-t-elle vu l'Inde avant la colonisation britannique ? À travers une étonnante galerie de portraits, Sanjay Subrahmanyam invite à de surprenants voyages dans le temps et dans l'espace du XVI e au XVIII e siècle. Quand, au XVe siècle, les Portugais franchirent le cap de Bonne-Espérance...

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)...

When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.

Qui pense le monde ? Les hommes du passé ou les historiens du présent ? L’histoire universelle telle qu’elle était pratiquée depuis l’Antiquité s’est transformée à partir du XVIe siècle dans des contextes variés, de l’Asie orientale à l’Amérique espagnole. Grâce à sa connaissance...

How does one think of history on a world scale? Should one turn to the intellectuals of the past or the historians of the present? Universal history as it was practised from Antiquity started to change from the sixteenth century in varied contexts, from East Asia to Spanish America. Applying his extensive...

Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals constructed a sophisticated, complex system of government...

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that considers Asian and European perspectives. Features an argument-driven history with a clear chronological...

This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial...

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere.

Everyone has a past: the question is what one does with it. If earlier scholars are to be believed, South Indian society before colonial rule showed an indifference to its past - or approached the past through myth, legend and phantasmagoria. This book sets out not merely to disprove this idea, but...