Catholic Orientalism
Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge (16Th–18Th Centuries)
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9780199452675
Publication date:
16/02/2015
Hardback
424 pages
216x140mm
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ISBN:
9780199452675
Publication date:
16/02/2015
Hardback
424 pages
Ângela Barreto Xavier, Ines G. Županov
Through a series of case studies, this book chronicles the rise and the decline of Catholic Orientalism which was produced in and disseminated by global networks of the early modern Portuguese empire in South Asia. From Portuguese officials to Goan Brahman clerics and literati, from botanists and physicians of Jewish origin to Italian Jesuits and their Tamil catechists, they were all engaged in creating an ever more cosmopolitan world of early modern South Asia. They did that by way of collecting information and knowledge, and by reflecting on their own 'mixed' identities, on the world of South Asia and their place in it.
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Ângela Barreto Xavier, Ines G. Županov
Description
Beginning at the turn of the sixteenth century and ending at the close of the eighteenth, the history of Catholic Orientalism is about knowledge produced in and about South Asia, disseminated through the global networks of the early modern Portuguese empire. An integral part of the Portuguese imperial network, this Catholic ‘information order’ established in Asia, refers to both knowledge practices and the archives. From the first colonial censuses and gazetteers, to texts on ‘religion’ of the Indian ‘pagans’ that came from the Catholic missionaries—multiple sources and polyglot archives lie at the heart of this work. Physicians, merchants, missionaries, and royal officials were, for three centuries, active producers of information. These actors, moving through space and time, with divided loyalties, often disregarded ‘national’ divisions and wore many a different hat. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the British Empire changed the map of knowledge about South Asia. To this end, Catholic Orientalism was both assimilated and discarded for being tainted by unreasonable Catholicism and for being too close to the equally unreasonable ‘native’ Indian point of view.
Ângela Barreto Xavier, Ines G. Županov
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About the Authors
Ângela Barreto Xavier, Ines G. Županov
Description
Beginning at the turn of the sixteenth century and ending at the close of the eighteenth, the history of Catholic Orientalism is about knowledge produced in and about South Asia, disseminated through the global networks of the early modern Portuguese empire. An integral part of the Portuguese imperial network, this Catholic ‘information order’ established in Asia, refers to both knowledge practices and the archives. From the first colonial censuses and gazetteers, to texts on ‘religion’ of the Indian ‘pagans’ that came from the Catholic missionaries—multiple sources and polyglot archives lie at the heart of this work. Physicians, merchants, missionaries, and royal officials were, for three centuries, active producers of information. These actors, moving through space and time, with divided loyalties, often disregarded ‘national’ divisions and wore many a different hat. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the British Empire changed the map of knowledge about South Asia. To this end, Catholic Orientalism was both assimilated and discarded for being tainted by unreasonable Catholicism and for being too close to the equally unreasonable ‘native’ Indian point of view.
Table of contents
About the Authors
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J. T. F. Jordens
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