Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails & Encounters in the Early Modern World

(Part of the The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures Series)

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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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 realpolitik...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1584659920

ISBN13:9781584659921

Release Date:July 2011

Publisher:Brandeis University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails & Encounters in the Early Modern World

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