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

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Overview

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"