Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A note on spelling and vocabulary
- 1 In Search of India: the empire of Vijayanagara through European eyes
- 2 Marco Polo's India and the Latin Christian tradition
- 3 Establishing lay science: the merchant and the humanist
- 4 Ludovico de Varthema: the curious traveller at the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus
- 5 The Portuguese and Vijayanagara: politics, religion and classication
- 6 The practice of ethnography: Indian customs and castes
- 7 The social and political order: Vijayanagara decoded
- 8 The historical dimension: from native traditions to European orientalism
- 9 The missionary discovery of South Indian religion: opening the doors of idolatry
- 10 From humanism to scepticism: the independent traveller in the seventeenth century
- Conclusion: Before Orientalism
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A note on spelling and vocabulary
- 1 In Search of India: the empire of Vijayanagara through European eyes
- 2 Marco Polo's India and the Latin Christian tradition
- 3 Establishing lay science: the merchant and the humanist
- 4 Ludovico de Varthema: the curious traveller at the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus
- 5 The Portuguese and Vijayanagara: politics, religion and classication
- 6 The practice of ethnography: Indian customs and castes
- 7 The social and political order: Vijayanagara decoded
- 8 The historical dimension: from native traditions to European orientalism
- 9 The missionary discovery of South Indian religion: opening the doors of idolatry
- 10 From humanism to scepticism: the independent traveller in the seventeenth century
- Conclusion: Before Orientalism
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
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- Travel and Ethnology in the RenaissanceSouth India through European Eyes, 1250–1625, pp. 401 - 422Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000