IndexâIndia in Early Modern English Travel Writings
Achinstein, Sharon
118â120
Agamemnon
193
Ain-i-Akbari
,
see Allami, Abul-Fazl
Akbar, Jalaluddin Muhammad
51, 76, 81, 135â137, 206, 212, 217, 240, 249
abolition of jizya tax
137
Din-i-Ilahi (Religion of God)
136
freedom from prejudice
136
tolerance
136â137
Tawhid-i-Ilahi
136
Akbarnama see Allami
Alamgirnamah
225
Alexandrowicz, C.H.
56
Alienness
244â248
Allami, Abul-Fazl
57, 58, 61, 136â137
Ain-i-Akbariâ
57â58, 136â137
Akbarnama
57
animal worship
161, 147, 149, 241
Anjum, Faraz
157
Anthropophagi
14, 44
Aristotle
109, 218, 246
Politicsâ
246
Areopagitica
.
see Milton, John
Arthasastra
.
see Kautilya
As You Like It
.
see Shakespeare
atheism
109, 113, 135, 137â138, 165, 240â241
Aurangzeb, Muhiuddin Muhammad
37, 40, 42â43, 46, 62, 77â78, 90, 101, 103, 107, 178, 202â206, 209, 214â217, 219â221, 223â233, 236, 239
Bernierâs appraisal
219â221
Manucciâs portrayal
203â204, 227
War of Succession
214â215, 219â223, 230â233
Aureng-Zebe
.
see Dryden, John
Bacon, Francis
19, 111, 113
Instauratio Magna
19
Badaon, Abdul Qadir
136
Bakhsh, Murad
214, 216, 220â221, 228, 231â232, 235
Banerjee, Pompa
176, 181, 196
barbarity
12, 78â80, 235â237, 239, 243, 244â248, 251
and Mughal court
78â80
and Indian treachery
234
English valor and Indian barbarity
235â237
and race
243â248
Barbosa, Duarte
186
Battle of Samugarh
214â215, 221â223, 230â231, 233
Khan, Khalilullah Treachery
222, 225â229, 233
War of Succession
Beasley, Faith E.
40â43
Behdad, Ali
17â18, 206â207
French Orientalism
17
Bel-shazzar
77
Bernard Jean-Frédéric and Bernard Picart and universal monotheistic religion
131â132, 165â166, 251
Bernier, François
1, 21â23, 33, 37, 40â46, 49, 62â64, 72â75, 80, 116, 162â166, 168, 171, 177â185, 187, 192â193, 195, 197, 201â207, 215â251
as a liberal thinker
22, 41â42, 239, 241, 243
accommodating his diverse audience
40â43, 49, 63â64, 73â75, 162, 164, 178, 181, 215, 251
Chapelain, Monsieur
40â41, 162, 164, 178, 181
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
40â41, 63, 215
Le Vayer, la Mothe
40â42, 64, 73â75, 164, 240
appraisal of Aurangzeb
219 â221
comparison of historiography with Manucci
224â231
closeness to Danishmand Khan
165, 215â216, 220
monotheistic Hinduism
162, 165â166, 171
portrayal of Prince Dara
216â219, 220â223, 226â227
portrayal of âsatiâ see âsatiâ
representation of Indian architecture, buildings, and cities
42â43, 64, 251
Travels in the Mogul Empire AD 1656â1668
,
see Bernier above
War of Succession
216, 221â223, 226â231, 237
Bertucci, Paola
14
Bhedatikkaram
159
Bible The Holy
4â5, 7, 117, 123, 133, 135, 140, 149, 156
[The] Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for the cause of Conscience
.
see Williams, Roger
Blount, Charles
124â126
[The] Book of Common Prayer
176
Borm, Jan
1â2
Boulaye, La
42, 43
Bourdieu, Pierre
64
Bowcher, George
102
Bowrey, Thomas
16, 25, 48, 84, 166, 193â195
A Dictionary of English and Malayo
48
discussion of sati see âsatiâ
A Geographical Account ⦠Bay of Bengal 1669 to 1679
48, 84, 193â195
Boyle, Robert
19, 109â114, 145
empiricism
109â113
The Origin of Forms and Qualities
109â110
Braccioloni, Poggio
13
Brenner, Robert
104â105
Brown, Stuart
109, 123â124, 129
Bulman, William J.
109, 171â172
Calvinist triumphalism
120
Calvin, John
142
Cambridge Platonists
113, 124â125
and Deism
124â125
Clarke, Samuel
113
Cudworth, Ralph
113
More, Henry
113
Herbert, Lord Cherbury
124
Campbell Mary
4â5, 10â11
Natural History
10
The Marvels of the East
152,
see Wonders of the East
cannibalism
14, 44, 115
Canterbury, Archbishop of
29, 55, 60, 137â138, 160, 246
Carey, Daniel
18â19, 24, 115â116, 118, 128, 241â242
Carlin, Norah
123
Carpini, John de Plano
6
Carte, Thomas
245
caste
166â172.
ethnography; pollution
Catholics
119â120, 122â123, 251
Chapman, George
69
Charles I
27â29, 32, 41, 66, 72, 104â105, 121â122, 134, 137, 198, 247
Eikon Basilikae
121
Threnodia Carolina
32
Charnock, Job
100, 195
Child, John
101â103, 236
EIC
Child, Josiah
100â101, 103, 105â106
EIC
Chiminy Beagum
.
see Jahanara
China Illustrata
.
see Kircher, Athanasius
Civil War in England
32, 60, 216, 232
Cohn, Bernard S.
54, 68â69
Colonization, EIC trade, and use of force
96â103
[The] Common-wealth of England
.
see Smith, Thomas
[The] Conquest of New Spain
.
see DÃaz, Bernal
Conti, Niccolo
13, 244
Coromandel Coast
32, 96, 158, 189
corpuscular theory
109
Coryat, Thomas
1, 21, 31, 76â78, 135â137, 139â140
weighing ceremony of the Emperor
76â77
and Islam
135â137, 139â140
Cotton, Sir Dodmore
32
Courteen, Sir William
104
Créquinière, La
131
Bernard and Picart
Crooke, William
38n1, 40n11, 46, 155
âDanechmend-Kanâ
.
see Khan, Danishmand
Dara Shikoh
46, 47, 199, 203â206, 214â233, 235
interest in philosophy and religion, doctrine of the Upanishads
217â218
liberalism and lack of orthodoxy
217â220
belief in Sufism
219
close contact with Reverend Father Buzée
218
War of Succession (especially Battle of Samugarh)
Bernier and Manucci
216, 221â223, 225â228
Deism
1, 108, 123â124, 125â130, 137, 165
Della Valle, Pietro
46, 47, 184â185, 193
description of sati see âsatiâ
interest in Oriental languages
46
pilgrimage to the Holy Land
46
De Rerum Natura
164
Descartes, René
111, 113
âDewetaesâ
159
DÃaz, Bernal
66â67, 196
The Conquest of New Spainâ
66
Din-i-Ilahi (Religion of God)
.
see Akbar
[A] Discription of the Persian Monarchy Now beinge: the Orientall Indyes
.
see Herbert, Thomas
[A] Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies
.
see Henry Lord
divine right of kingship, theory of (divinity of kingship)
57, 135
King James
Diwan-i-am
51, 67
Diwan-i-khas
50, 51, 86
Dryden, John
177â178, 208
Aureng-Zebe
177â178, 208
East India Company
Company vs. Thomas Sandys (1682)
105
European rivalry and
94â96
export of coin or silver for EIC trade
82
defense of policy in treatises
A Discovrse of Trade from England vnto the East Indies (Thomas Mun)
83
Englandâs Treasure by Forraign Trade (Thomas Mun)
83
The East-India Trade A Most Profitable Trade to the Kingdom (Robert Ferguson)â
83â85
Godolphinâs Award
106
interloping
103â107
and Josiah Child
105â106
monopoly
95, 103â107
âPhyrwanaâ (parwanaâgrant of permission)
90
profitability of Indian trade
81â86
privateering and piracy
104
Nathaniel and Robert Rich
104
private trade
106â107
seige of Bombay by Siddi and outcome
101â103, 236, 238
defense of war, Josiah Child
103
and John Child
101â103
Eastward Ho
.
see Jonson, Ben
Eikon Basilikae
.
see Charles I
Eikonoclastes
.
see Milton, John
Elizabeth, Queen
103, 135
charter to EIC
103
Ellora temples
43
Embassy
.
see Roe, Thomas
empiricism
109â114
Englandâs Treasure by Forraign Trade
,
see Mun, Thomas and East India Company
Enlightenment
1, 3, 17â18, 21â22, 108â132, 162, 166, 171â172, 182, 185, 188, 197, 208, 213â214, 230â231, 239, 241â242, 245, 250â251
and civilization and barbarity
80, 213â214, 245â246
and changing historiography
230â231
and empiricism and scientific enquiry
109â114
and growth of rationality in religion
116â118
and toleration, rationality, and natural religion
118â120, 123â133
Locke and awareness of divergence in customs and religions
114â116
Ovington, relativity of values, and recognition of positives in other cultures
168â170
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
,
see Locke, John
ethnography
37, 166â172,
caste; pollution
ethnology
17, 22, 37
Every Man Out of His Humour
.,
see Jonson, Ben
Ezour-Vedam
165n15
The Faerie Queene
.
see Spenser, Edmund
Festa, Lynn
241â242
firman
30, 55, 82, 86â87, 92, 94, 96, 101â103
Fitch, Ralph
25, 26, 81, 146â147, 241
Floyd-Wilson, Mary
246â248
Fort St George
48, 96, 193
Fradkin, Jeremy
122â123
Fryer, John
1, 15, 19, 25, 35, 37â40, 47â48, 92, 97, 100, 106â107, 145, 150â151, 154â157, 160, 166â169, 171, 175, 187, 198â199, 232, 235â236, 241, 245, 247, 251
A New Account of East India and Persia
,
see Fryer above
concept of travel writing
38â40
cow-worship in gentile religion
167
idolatry, lingam-worship, devil worship
150â151
Lingayats in Karnataka
151, 156
religious ceremonies and procession at Gokurn
154â156
repulse of Shivajiâs raid by EIC
235
âfuror barbaricusâ
244
Games, Alison
250
Gassendi, Pierre
41, 115, 163, 215, 218.
Bernier
Gentile religion and monotheism
157â166
Gentiles
131â132, 133n1, 142, 144, 147, 157â158, 163, 178, 217, 240, 251.
Terry
[A] Geographical Account ⦠Bay of Bengal 1669 to 1679
.
see Bowrey, Thomas
GiaccamÃ
184â185, 193.
della Valle, Pietro
Gillies, John
11â12
Globe theater
69
Goa, Archbishop of
26
Gokarna
154n, 156
Greenblatt, Stephen
66, 67, 70, 192, 196
Grue, Thomas Le
158
Guicciardini, Francesco
210
Gunn, Steven
58n, 134â135
Habib, Irfan
61â62, 91
Hadfield, Andrew
120
Hakluyt, Richard
6n, 16, 24â26, 44
Principall Navigations
16, 25
Halalchors see Ogilby, John and Ovington, John
Halley, Edmund
111
Hamilton, Alexander
16, 101â103, 195, 236
representation of John Child and the EIC war against Aurangzeb
101â103, 236
Hanafi
56
harem
173, 198â208
and male chauvinism
198â199
erotic space, provoking male European curiosity
198â202, 206â208
narratives of sexual indulgence and liaison
200â205
site for education and accomplishments
205â206
see also Nur Mahal, Jahanara, and Roshanara
Harris, Jonathan G.
22, 70
Hatfield, Gary
112
Hawkins, William
25, 50â53, 60â61, 64, 67, 78â79, 166
Jahangirâs court and
50â53
Hawley, John S.
174
Herbert, Thomas
15, 31â33, 38, 131, 147â150, 157, 166, 241, 245
Baniya gods, religion, and beliefs
147â 150
class and political ideology
32
objectives of travel narratives
33â35
racism in the association of blackness and animal worship (devil worship)
149
[A] Relation of some Years Travaile
,
see Herbert, Thomas above
Herbert, William
32
heretic-burning
121, 195â196
Hinduism
27, 133â134, 136â137, 145, 149, 151, 157â158, 160, 163â165, 178, 197, 217â218, 241
caste and pollution
166â171
ceremonies and rituals
154â157
gods and goddesses, idolatry and devil worship
145â154
four castes
160â161
monotheistic Hinduism
131â132, 157â166
rebirth, transmigration of souls, Pythagorean
150, 161â162, 167â168
historiography
80, 114, 126, 166, 209â211, 215, 221, 230, 235, 237, 243
European historiography and Mughal India
growing emphasis on facts as a trend
209â210
Roeâs history of Jahangirâs reign
210â214
Mughal War of Succession
,
see Bernier, Manucci, Tavernier, and Ogilby
Hobbes, Thomas
111, 113, 125â126
Howard, Jean E.
250
Hrabanus Maurus
152
Hume, David
112
Hutton, Sarah
124â125
idolatry
132â135, 143, 146, 152â154, 157â158, 163, 165, 240
incest
115, 200, 203, 205
Instauratio Magna
.
see Bacon, Francis
[The] Irish Rebellion
.
see Temple, Sir John
Islam
20, 27, 126â127, 131, 133â142, 145, 164, 217, 219â220, 240â241, 251
abjuration of idolatry
133
Islamic God, attributes of
126
Islamic Law
56
Israel, Jonathan
119, 131
[The] Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508â
13
Jacobean court
55, 60, 66â67, 70
Jacob, James R.
124â126
âjagatâ
89
Jahanara
199â201, 203â206, 208
close to Dara
206
devotion and loyalty as a daughter
205
indulgence of sexual desire
,
see harem
charges of incestuous relationship with Shah Jahan
200
Jahangir, Nuruddin Muhammad
20, 21, 30, 33, 50â55, 60, 64, 67â71, 73, 76â80, 82, 87, 104, 135, 137â138, 140, 178, 199, 206â207, 209â210, 212â214, 217, 234, 240, 246, 248â249
and Roeâs construction of his court by
53â72
and festivities and show of riches
72â73
cosmopolitanism and manipulation of the globe
249
his religion
.
see Roe
his secular policy
137
history of his reign in the representation of Roe
210â214
taste for blood, nomadic wanderings, and barbarity
78â80
weighing ceremony and European representations
76â77
Jainism
133, 136â137
James, King
20, 29, 41, 57â58, 65, 69â70, 79â80, 82, 98
Jesuits
27, 130, 138â139, 144, 157, 159â160, 165, 171
âaccommodationâ theory
130â131
Jews
66, 106, 119, 122, 127, 130
Jiwan, Pathan Malik
219, 223
jizya tax (pilgrimage tax)
137, 206.
Akbar
Jones, W.R.
244
Jonson, Ben
29, 69, 71
Eastward Ho
69
Every Man Out of His Humour
71
Judaism
127, 131, 159, 180, 237
Kautilya
56
Arthasastra
56
Khan, Abdullah
89, 90
Khan, Asaf
71, 86â87, 94â95, 199, 206, 211â212, 234
Khan, Danishmand/Mullah Shafii
56, 63, 163, 165, 179â180, 215, 219â220, 225
Khan, Khafi
219, 228â229
Khan, Khalilullah
222, 225â229, 233
Khan, Mukarrab
52n
Khan, Qasim
221
Khan, Rustam
226â227
Khán, Sháista
90, 100, 204, 219
Khan, Siddi Yakub
his siege
101â102, 236, 238
Hamiltonâs presentation of the battle
236
Khurram, Prince
33, 68, 71, 95, 211â212, 234, 237.
Shah Jahan
Khusrau
51, 211â213, 223, 233
Kircher, Athanasius
158, 163
China Illustrata
158
Koch, Ebba
249
Korte, Barbara
2, 4, 8, 242â243
Le Vayer, M. de La Mothe see Bernier
La Porte Ouverte
,
see Rogerius, Abraham
Levant Company
25
Leviathan
.
see Hobbes, Thomas
Linschoten, Jan Huyghen Van
26, 146, 192
Diabolorum
146
monstrous deity
146
âsatiâ
192
Locke, John
109, 113â116, 118â119, 125, 127, 168, 177, 183, 190, 251
and diversity of customs
114â116
and rationality in religion
117â120
and toleration
119, 120
empiricism
114
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
114â116, 118
the practice of âsatiâ and the law of self-preservation
115â116
pronouncements against religious enthusiasm
156
Loomba, Ania
149, 177
Lord, Henry
131, 150, 160, 163
Bania religion, creation narrative, castes
, 160â162
A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies
160â162
Louis XIV
40, 43, 249
Machiavelli, Niccolo
210
Mahal, Mumtaz
71n, 212
Maliki
56
Mandeville, John
6â9, 11, 149n
and Marco Polo
8â9
as pilgrim
7â8
Pollard A.W.
6
The Travels see above
Mani, Lata
176
mansabdari system
.
see Roe, Thomas
Mansell, Sir Robert
88
Manucci, Niccolao
1, 21, 46â47, 201, 203â207, 215, 222, 224â231, 234, 235, 237, 247
description of the harem
201, 203â204
portrayal of Dara
218, 224â231
portrayal of Jahanara
201, 203, 204â205
War of Succession (especially Battle of Samugarh)
224â231
Marlowe, Christopher
213
Massinger, Philip
141, 200
The Renegado
141, 200
materialism
113
Mauss, Marcel
64
Metamorphoses
154
metaphor of the theater
.
see Mughal court
metempsychosis, theory of
168.
transmigration of souls
Milkiyat
62
Milton, John
120â122, 153â154
and eastern gods
153â154
and Ireland
121â122
and toleration
120â122
Areopagitica
120â121
Eikonoclastes
121â122
Observations upon the Articles of Peace
121â122
Of True Religion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration
120
Paradise Lostâ
153â154, 161
Mitchell, Colin P.
20, 30, 58n, 59, 211
Mitter, Partha
151â153
monarchy
31, 53, 55, 57â59, 67, 134
monotheistic Hinduism see Hinduism
Montaigne, Michel de
15, 42, 177, 182
Monter, William
120â121
More, Henry
113
Divine Dialogues
113
Mosaic law
125
Mughal court
31, 50â72
absence of laws and absolutism in Roeâs construction
55â60
and barbarity
78â80
corruption in Roeâs perception
64â67
hierarchical arrangement of standing
51â52, 67â68
festivities, splendor, and riches
73â75
image of the theater
67â72
ownership and private property
60â64
weighing ceremonies of Mughal emperors
76â78
See also Roe, Thomas
Mullah Shafii
.
see Khan, Danishmand
Mun, Thomas
83
see East India Company
Mundy, Peter
1, 16â17, 19â20, 22, 24â25, 35â37, 48, 89, 145, 166â167, 171, 185â189, 193, 197, 199â200, 242, 251
class, employment, and interests
35â37
description of caste practices and ethnography
166â167
EIC trade and transportation of goods
89â90
âsatiâ and ethnographic reporting and comparison with Tavernier
185â189
The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia 1608â1667
see Mundy above
[The] Murder of Gonzago
193
Murphy, Andrew R.
118
Navya NyÄya
163
natural philosophy
18, 19, 108â114
Nayar, Pramod K.
22, 54, 65, 73
[A] New Account of East India and Persia
.
see Fryer, John
New Characters
.
see Overbury, Sir Thomas
Newton, Isaac
109â114
empiricism
110â112
natural causes of natural phenomena
110â112
mathematical principles and application
110â111
popularizing discoveries
111
Principia
110â112
Nobili, Roberto de
131, 159â160, 165, 171, 241, 251
and Jesuit accommodation theory
130â131, 160
discussions of monotheism in Advaita Advaita Dipika, Vivaranopanyasa, Tattvavivekam
159â160
Vedantic school and doctrine
159â160, 171
Nur Jahan (Nur Mahal)
71, 79, 199, 205â206, 212â213, 248
Observations upon the Articles of Peace
.
see Milton, John
Odoric of Pordenone
6
Odyssey
2â3
Of True Religion, Heresie, Schism, Toleration
.
see Milton, John
Ogilby, John
21, 170, 172, 231â235
Halalchors
170â171
Mughal War of Succession
231â234
anecdotal, entertaining style of literary narrator
232
borrowings from Bernier, especially emphasis on role of Fortune
232â233
providentialism targeting Shah Jahanâs treachery towards Prince Khusrau and consequent retribution
233â234
royalist affiliation and association with Ireland
170â171, 232
oikumene
11
oriental despots
55â57, 59â60, 63, 80
Orientalism
.
see Said, Edward
The Origin of Forms and Qualities
.
see Boyle, Robert
Orlando Furioso
141
Ortelius, Abraham
249
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
249
Osteen, Mark
64
Othello
,
see Shakespeare
Overbury, Sir Thomas
176
New Characters
176
Ovington, John
1, 18â19, 22, 25, 47â48, 78, 80, 97â98, 106, 131, 145, 166, 168â171, 187, 189â191, 197, 236â237, 251
contradictory voices
191
custom and its power of determining cultural practices
168â170
Enlightenment rationality and similarities with Locke and Bernier
168â169, 190
Halalchors
170
praise of Asiaâs superior heritage and the valor of Timur Lang
237
âsatiâ
189â191
similarity with Shaftesbury
191, 197
tolerance for alien customs
168â170, 191
unhealthy tropical climate in the colony of Bombay
97â98
Oxendine, George
100, 235
Paradise Lost
.
see Milton, John
Peck, Linda Levy
65â66, 88
Pembroke, Earl of
32, 34
Penn, William
118
peregrinatio tradition
28
Petigree, Andrew
120
Petit, John
.
see East India Company
Pfister, Manfred
242
âPhyrwana,â see East India Company
pilgrimage
,
see travel narrative
pollution
166â172
Hindu belief in
167
caste; ethnography
Polo, Marco
8â9
Careful, detailed description of places and cultural practices
8â9
differences with pilgrim-travelers
8â9
Porter, Roy
108n1, 109
Prideaux, Humphry
129â130, 140n, 141
critique of Deism
129
sketch of Muhammad in opposition to Stubbeâs portrayal
129â130
[The] True Nature of Imposture Fully Displayâd in the Life of Mahomet
129â130
Principall Navigations
.
see Hakluyt, Richard
Principia
.
see Newton, Isaac
Pritchard, R. E.
35â36
Prophet Muhammad
127, 129, 139â141, 240
and Mahometan religion in in Coryatâs view
139â140
in popular Jacobean drama
141
in Prideauxâs view
129â130
in Roeâ view
134
in Stubbeâs version
127
in Terryâs view
140â141
Islam
Protestantism
21, 120â121, 123, 127â128, 131â132, 135, 151, 154
Protestant chaplains
27
Protestant colonization
121â123
Purchas, Samuel
25, 27, 29, 31
Purchas His Pilgrimes
27, 29, 31
Quakers
119
Quran
56, 129â130, 133, 135, 140â141
Rae, Chhatar Sal
227.
War of Succession
Raiswell, Richard
28, 142â144
Rathore, Ram Singh
228, 235
Raushanara Begum
.
see Roshanara Begum
Reformation
1, 118, 120.
[A] Relation of some Yeares Travaile
.
see Herbert, Thomas
religious enthusiasm
127, 155â156
renaissance
3, 12, 14, 36, 65, 69, 125, 209â210, 213, 230, 244, 246
The Renegado
.
see Massinger, Philip
republicanism
1, 109
Rich, Robert
.
see East India Company
Roe, Thomas
birth, family and education
1, 1n, 20, 29
dual audience
29, 30â31, 53
his disavowal of likenesses
54, 58, 66â67, 88, 171, 239, 240
his representation of the political history of Jahangirâs reign
210â214
middle ground between royalists and parliamentarians
59â60
Mughal court and absolutism see Mughal court
image of the theater see Mughal court
portrayal of Prince Khurram
33, 68, 71, 95, 211â213
portrayal of Prince Khusrau
211â213
portrayal of the of the celebration of Parsee âNaroseâ
72â73
representation of corruption in India see Mughal court
representation of private property in India see Mughal court
representation of the weighing ceremony of Jahangir see Mughal court
view of EIC trade and advices
82, 85â88, 92, 94â96, 98â99
view of Jahangirâs religious beliefs and policy
134â135, 137â138
view of Jahangirâs harem
199â200
The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India 1615â19 see Roe above
Roger, Abraham Roger / Rogerius, Abraham
131, 158â160, 163
La Porte Ouverte
160, 163
Rogers, G.A.J.
109â110
Roshanara Begum
74, 75, 202â204, 206, 208, 219
indulgence of sexual desire
202â204
colorful procession through the streets
74â75
expediting Daraâs death
219
Roth, Father Heinrich
158, 163
Royal Society
19, 37, 109â111, 145
empiricism
109â111, 114
Roy, Rammohun
165n16, 176
Rubiés, Joan-Pau
3â6, 9â10, 12â13, 15, 18, 22, 26, 32â33, 36â37, 132, 157â158, 163, 165â166, 186
Rubruquies, William de
6
âsabbatâ
179â180
Said, Edward
53, 239
Orientalismâ
53
Sapra, Rahul
30n
Sarkar, Jadunath
216n, 217, 219â220, 226, 229
âsatiâ
115n, 173â198, 201, 203, 205, 207â208, 242
Bernierâs account
179â183, 185, 192â193
Bowreyâs representation and British intervention
193â195
della Valleâs representation
184â185, 193
etymology of the word
174
in British India
197
Mundyâs account see Mundy
Ovingtonâs representation see Ovington
representing the patriarchal ideal of feminine
176â178
Tavernierâs account see Tavernier
Terryâs sketch see Terry
widow-burning
21, 174, 195â198, 242
witch-burning
180â181, 195â197, 242
Sauer, Elizabeth
118â119
Scot, Reginald
180, 245
self-immolation
.
see âsatiâ
self-preservation, law of
.
see Locke, John
seraglio see harem
Shaftesbury
127â128, 191.
deism
Shah Jahan
21, 33, 37, 40, 47, 68, 89â90, 185, 198â206, 209, 212, 214â217, 219â221, 223â225, 230, 232â234
and Jahanara
.
see Jahanara
See also Roeâs portrayal of Khurram in Roe
Shah Shuja
90, 214, 220, 231â232
Shakespeare
14, 69, 250n
As You Like It
69
Othello
14
Sharia law
55
shîâî theory of divine designation
58n
Shirley, Sir Robert
32
Singh, Jaswant
40, 221
Singh, Jyotsna G.
22, 54
Six Voyages
.
see Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste
Smerwick massacre
121
Smith, Thomas
55
The Common-wealth of England
55
Smythe, Sir Thomas
104
Speed, John
69, 171
The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
69, 171
Spenser, Edmund
37, 122
The Faerie Queene
37, 143
A View of the Present State of Ireland
122
stadial theory of civilization
240n, 245
Stern, Philip J.
100â101, 102n, 103, 105â106
Stevens, Paul
121
Strachan, Michael
1n, 29, 53n, 59
Stubbe, Henry
125â127, 129
An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism
125
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
23, 56, 131n, 132
Europeâs India
23, 131n, 132
Tattvavivekam
.
see Nobili, Roberto de
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste
1, 43, 45â46, 73, 107, 183â184, 188â189, 215, 223, 230, 231, 234, 237, 241, 245, 247
dedication to the monarch and art of eulogy
45
family background
45â46
publication and popularity of the book
46
representation of the War of Succession
223
âsatiâ
183â184, 188â189
Six Voyages see Tavernier above
Tawhid-i-Ilahi
136.
see Akbar; Din-i-ilahi
Teltscher, Kate
22, 53â54, 68, 70
Temple, Sir John
121, 234
The Irish Rebellion
121, 234
Terry, Edward
1, 18, 23, 27â29, 35, 38â39, 47â48, 53, 76â77, 88â89, 131, 133â135, 137â145, 155, 157, 160, 166, 171, 174â176, 178, 187, 189, 241, 248â249, 251
as a clergyman
1, 27â29
honesty and virtues of common Indians
88â89, 142
objectives of travel writing
28â29, 39, 131
on gentile religion and grace (Calvinism)
142â145
on Islam
139â141
on âsatiâ
174â176, 178, 189
publication, revision, readership of work
27â28,
A Voyage to East India
,
see Terry above
Thévenot, Jean de
15, 21, 43â45, 47, 78
a man of independent means, interest in travel
43, 44
conveys sense of a fraternity of travelers
45
description of the architecture of the Ellora
43â44
Merdi-Coura, Anthropophagi
44
partial reliance on information from secondary sources and inaccuracies
44
weighing ceremony of the Emperor
77â78
Threnodia Carolina
.
see Charles I
Tindal, Matthew
124
Tinguely, Frédéric
13, 164
Toland, John
117â118, 120, 124
toleration
56, 116â123, 130â132, 241
and Akbar
,
see Akbar
and Enligtenment
,
see Enlightenment
and Milton
,
see Milton
radical thought, and freedom of thought and speech
118â119
See also natural religion; rise of deism
transmigration of souls, Pythagorean doctrine of
150, 156
Traub, Valerie
250
travel writing
and curiosity
5â6, 13â14, 18, 30, 46, 133, 145, 174, 185, 187â188, 199
ethnography
6, 15â17, 19, 20, 26, 33, 37, 44, 109, 145, 166, 171â173
evolution of the genre
3â19
and pilgrimage
3â6, 8, 10â11, 13â14, 46, 47, 127, 137
and wonder
3, 10, 12â14, 54, 74, 200, 208
Trevor, Sir John
88
[The] True Nature of Imposture Fully Displayâd in the Life of Mahomet
.
see Prideaux, Humphry
universal religion see Jean Frédéric Bernard
Upanishads, mystic doctrine in the
218
Urbain, Jean-Didier
2
Vane, Henry
121
Varthema, Ludovico de
13, 171, 244â245
Vedantic Hinduism
159
[A] View of the Present State of Ireland
.
see Spenser, Edmund
Vivaranopanyasa
159,
de Nobili
Vivekananda, Swami
165n16
[A] Voyage to East India
.
see Terry, Edward
A Warning for Fair Women
193
War of Succession
21, 46, 214â215, 223, 231â232, 237
Bernier, Manucci, Tavernier
Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine
186
widow-burning
,
see âsatiâ
Williams, Roger
118, 121, 123
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for the cause of Conscience
123
Williams, Wes
13
Williamson, James
16
witch-burning
,
see âsatiâ
Wittkower, Rudolph
152â153
Wolfe, Charles T.
113
Wolloch, Nathaniel
114, 166, 240n, 245
Wonders of the East
10, 14, 152
Woolf, D.R.
209â210
Xavier, Angela B.
130, 131
zamindari system
61â62
Zoroastrianism
136
âZulpheckcarconâ (Zulfikar Khan)
65, 87
Zupanov, Ines G.
17, 130, 131