Bücher von Sanjay Subrahmanyam

An important study of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between 1400 and 1800. This book can be read for a better understanding of the nature of early modern encounters, but also for the sheer pleasure of entering a new world.

This book is based on extensive and previously unused Portuguese and Dutch archival sources. Its secondary theme is to explore the relationship between the documentation used and the context within which it was generated, thus illuminating how Europeans and Asians reacted to one another.