New Book:
Three Ways To Be Alien: Travails & Encounters In The Early Modern World
By Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Book Summary:
Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2007, 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) held hostage by the Portuguese at Goa; English traveler and global schemer Anthony Sherley, whose writings reveal a surprisingly nimble understanding of real politik in the emerging world of the early seventeenth century; and Nicolo Manuzzi, an insightful Venetian chronicler of the Mughal Empire in the later seventeenth century who drifted between jobs with the Mughals and various foreign entrepots, observing all but remaining the eternal outsider.
In addition to the captivating story of floating identities in a changing world, Subrahmanyam also succeeds in injecting humanity into global history and proves that biography still plays an important role in contemporary historiography. Fascinating figures and events at the edges of Western history are given center stage, and the book reveals the early modern world to be much smaller than we may have thought.
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SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM Professor & Navin and Pratima Doshi Endowed Chair in Pre-Modern Indian History M.A. Economics, 1982; Ph.D., Delhi School of Economics, 1987 His biodata: http://bit.ly/woqvf1