From the Tagus to the Ganges

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Opens a new framework for understanding history, the connected histories; Based on extensive research into Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, and Persian sources; Author is a renowned historian.

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Are you an author. Cited by: User Review - Flag as inappropriate If there is one lesson to be learned for a future historian—world or otherwise, really—in the reading of Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s publication, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, it is that world historians need to dive into the archives of Asia to truly get to the details of who did what, where, and when.4/5(1).

From Tagus to the Ganges by Sanjay Subrahmanyam,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide/5(10). From the Tagus to the Ganges is a set of interlinked studies that deploys the concept of From the Tagus to the Ganges book histories to shed important light of aspects of the history of early modern Eurasia.

These studies are based on a wide variety of Asian and European materials, and while their main focus is on relations between Europeans and south Asia, other. ABOUT THE BOOK History writing on South Asia has over time debated the politics of its sources. It has also confronted the assumptions underlying the per iodization of Indian history.

As reflected in this collection of essays, Sanjay Subramanyam takes a sharp and discriminating look at the archive to challenge certain enduring beliefs regarding temporal and geographical frontiers in the task.

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Historians of not only India, but peasant political movements elsewhere in the 'Third World' will read it with pleasure and profit."--Sanjay Subrahmanyam, author of Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges"Where there is of course a considerable and rich South Asian tradition of history from below, and while the.

Like its companion From Tagus to the Ganges, this book deploys the concept of 'connected histories' to shed important light on aspects of the history of early modern Eurasia. It reflects on two and a half centuries of Mughal-European relations, beginning with the early years of the Mughals in India, and ending with the eighteenth century.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges (Oxford University Press, ). Tezcan, Baki, The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, ).Author: Giancarlo Casale.

From the Tagus to the Ganges. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, (OCoLC) Online version: Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. From the Tagus to the Ganges. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, (OCoLC) Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

By Ben Breen. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a historian of remarkable erudition and imagination. His personal itineraries over the years—from the New Delhi School of Economics to the École des Hautes Études in Paris, and from Oxford to UCLA, where he currently holds an endowed chair in history—mirror those of the early modern travellers who frequently take center stage in his historical.

The Ganges has always been more than just an ordinary river. For millions of Indians, she is also a goddess. According to popular belief, bathing in Mother Ganga dissolves all sins, drinking her waters cures illness, and dying on her banks ensures freedom from the cycle of death and rebirth/5.

About the Book. Peasant Pasts is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to writing histories of peasant politics, nationalism, and colonialism. Vinayak Chaturvedi's analysis provides an important intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining the nature of peasant discourses and practices during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

More than million people are directly or indirectly dependent upon the Ganges River Basin, which spans China, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.

While there are many books covering one aspect of the Ganges, ranging from hydrology to cultural significance, this book is unique in presenting a comprehensive inter-disciplinary overview of the key. Get this from a library. Explorations in connected history: from the Tagus to the Ganges. [Sanjay Subrahmanyam] -- This volume looks at a range of sources in various archives to reconstruct a history of South Asia in a wider Eurasian context, thus the use of the term 'connected history'.

Downloadable. This article proposes a conjunctural reading of a series of political and ideological currents that underpinned empire-building strategies over a good part of Eurasia in the sixteenth century.

Drawing on recent research concerning Ottoman and other Mediterranean millenarian movements, it argues that one can understand these in a context that stretches as far as Portugal on the. Subrahmanyam, Sanjay “Turning the Stones Over: Sixteenth-Century Millenarianism from the Tagus to the Ganges.” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 40 (): – Taqizadeh, H.

“Various Eras and Calendars Used in the Countries of Islam.”. The Tagus (/ ˈ t eɪ ɡ ə s / TAY-gəs; Spanish: Tajo; Portuguese: Tejo; see below) is the longest river in the Iberian is 1, km ( mi) long, km ( mi) in Spain, 47 km (29 mi) along the border between Portugal and Spain and km ( mi) in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean near drains an area of 80, square kilometers (30, sq mi Country: Spain, Portugal.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam (born 21 May ) is an Indian historian who specialises in the early modern period. He is the author of several books and publications. He holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA which he joined in 1 Background and education.

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Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles between the continents; and the diaries, journals, and oral accounts of the 4/4(11).Subrahmanyam, Sanjai (a) Explorations in connected history: from the Tagus to the Ganges.

Oxford University Press, New Delhi and Oxford. Subrahmanyam, Sanjai (b) Explorations in connected history. Mughals and Franks. Oxford University Press, New Delhi and Oxford.