Fran Ois Valentijn S Description Of Ceylon Oud En Nieuw Oost Indien 1726
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Fran Ois Valentijn S Description Of Ceylon Oud En Nieuw Oost Indien 1726
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Author : S. Arasaratnam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Fran Ois Valentijn S Description Of Ceylon Oud En Nieuw Oost Indien 1726 written by S. Arasaratnam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Fran Ois Valentijn S Description Of Ceylon
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Author : S. Arasaratnam
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Fran Ois Valentijn S Description Of Ceylon written by S. Arasaratnam and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
François Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Old and New East Indies) has for long been regarded as a primary source of information on a number of regions of maritime Asia. It is a veritable encyclopaedia, bringing together an array of facts, trivial and vital, from a wide range of contemporary and earlier literature, acknowledged and unacknowledged, and contains valuable excerpts from contemporary documents of the Dutch East India Company and from private papers. It is indeed a public archive. Despite this historic character of the work, it was never republished in full in a critical edition or made available in English translation. It has therefore remained relatively unknown and little read, except by the specialist wanting to quarry this mine of information for his particular purpose. This edition of Valentijn embraces the part dealing with Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the fifth volume of Old and New East Indies. The island of Ceylon is one of three areas that has received the most detailed treatment in the work, with substantial sections devoted to geography, topography, society, natural history and the record of historical tradition. He also provides an almost contemporaneous account of the Dutch conquest of the island. For his description of Ceylon, Valentijn has had access to a variety of sources - Sinalese, Portuguese and Dutch - and has presented this material to us with his characteristic attention to detail. The volume now published with an introduction and explanatory notes is many things for many people: a geographer's manual, a naturalist's handbook, an anthropologist's collection of caste and custom, an antiquarian's record of tradition and a chronicler's narrative of history. One of the most informative writings on Ceylon is made available, for the first time, to the English-reading public.
Global Calvinism
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Author : Charles H. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-11
Global Calvinism written by Charles H. Parker and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-11 with History categories.
A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period “A tour de force offering the reader the best study of global Calvinism in the realms of the Dutch East India Company.”—Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, editor, Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age Calvinism went global in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as close to a thousand Dutch Reformed ministers, along with hundreds of lay chaplains, attached themselves to the Dutch East India and West India companies. Across Asia, Africa, and the Americas where the trading companies set up operation, Dutch ministers sought to convert “pagans,” “Moors,” Jews, and Catholics and to spread the cultural influence of Protestant Christianity. As Dutch ministers labored under the auspices of the trading companies, the missionary project coalesced, sometimes grudgingly but often readily, with empire building and mercantile capitalism. Simultaneously, Calvinism became entangled with societies around the world as encounters with indigenous societies shaped the development of European religious and intellectual history. Though historians have traditionally treated the Protestant and European expansion as unrelated developments, the global reach of Dutch Calvinism offers a unique opportunity to understand the intermingling of a Protestant faith, commerce, and empire.
Illustrations And Views Of Dutch Ceylon 1602 1796
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Author : R. Rajpal Kumar De Silva
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1988
Illustrations And Views Of Dutch Ceylon 1602 1796 written by R. Rajpal Kumar De Silva and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Travel categories.
Illustrations And Views Of Dutch Ceylon 1602 1796
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Author : De Silva
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Illustrations And Views Of Dutch Ceylon 1602 1796 written by De Silva and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with History categories.
The Buddha S Tooth
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Author : John S. Strong
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-10-22
The Buddha S Tooth written by John S. Strong and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-22 with Religion categories.
John S. Strong unravels the storm of influences shaping the received narratives of two iconic sacred objects. Bodily relics such as hairs, teeth, fingernails, pieces of bone—supposedly from the Buddha himself—have long served as objects of veneration for many Buddhists. Unsurprisingly, when Western colonial powers subjugated populations in South Asia, they used, manipulated, redefined, and even destroyed these objects to exert control. In The Buddha’s Tooth, John S. Strong examines Western stories, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, surrounding two significant Sri Lankan sacred objects to illuminate and concretize colonial attitudes toward Asian religions. First, he analyzes a tale about the Portuguese capture and public destruction, in the mid-sixteenth century, of a tooth later identified as a relic of the Buddha. Second, he switches gears to look at the nineteenth-century saga of British dealings with another tooth relic of the Buddha—the famous Daḷadā enshrined in a temple in Kandy—from 1815, when it was taken over by English forces, to 1954, when it was visited by Queen Elizabeth II. As Strong reveals, the stories of both the Portuguese tooth and the Kandyan tooth reflect nascent and developing Western understandings of Buddhism, realizations of the cosmopolitan nature of the tooth, and tensions between secular and religious interests.
Annual Report And Statement Of Accounts For
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Author : Hakluyt Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Annual Report And Statement Of Accounts For written by Hakluyt Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Voyages and travels categories.
The Dutch East India Company And The Economy Of Bengal 1630 1720
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Author : Om Prakash
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The Dutch East India Company And The Economy Of Bengal 1630 1720 written by Om Prakash and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Business & Economics categories.
Om Prakash reveals the central role played by Bengal in the Dutch East India Company's activities in India in the seventeenth and the early eighteenth century and the resulting integration of India into the world economy. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Strange Tales Of An Oriental Idol
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Author : Donald S. Lopez Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-11-10
Strange Tales Of An Oriental Idol written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Religion categories.
We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred years, including Clement of Alexandria, Marco Polo, St. Francis Xavier, Voltaire, and Sir William Jones. Featuring writings by soldiers, adventurers, merchants, missionaries, theologians, and colonial officers, this volume contains a wide range of portraits of the Buddha. The descriptions are rarely flattering, as all manner of reports—some accurate, some inaccurate, and some garbled—came to circulate among European savants and eccentrics, many of whom were famous in their day but are long forgotten in ours. Taken together, these accounts present a fascinating picture, not only of the Buddha as he was understood and misunderstood for centuries, but also of his portrayers.
Fort Cochin In Kerala 1750 1830
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Author : Anjana Singh
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-03-22
Fort Cochin In Kerala 1750 1830 written by Anjana Singh and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-22 with Psychology categories.
This study of the early modern fortress town of Cochin in India, based on the rarely used VOC archival deposits in the Tamilnadu State Archives in Chennai (Madras), provides an intimate portrait of a Dutch urban community of East India Company servants and their dependents living within the larger social environment of the Malabar coast