India and Europe in the Global Eighteenth Century

Simon Davies was formerly Professor of Enlightenment Studies and the founding Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the assistant Director of the correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Electronic Enlightenment) and the general editor of two volumes of Bernardin’s Complete Works (Garnier).

• Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, IntroductionAnthony Strugnell, A view from afar: India in Raynal’s Histoire des deux IndesClaire Gallien, British orientalism, Indo-Persian historiography and the politics of global knowledgeJaved Majeed, Globalising the Goths: ‘The siren shores of Oriental literature’ in John Richardson’s A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English (1777-1780) Deirdre Coleman, ‘Voyage of conception’: John Keats and IndiaSonja Lawrenson, ‘The country chosen of my heart’: the comic cosmopolitanism of The Orientalist, or, electioneering in Ireland, a tale, by myselfDaniel Sanjiv Roberts, Orientalism and ‘textual attitude’: Bernier’s appropriation by Southey and OwensonFelicia Gottmann, Intellectual history as global history: Voltaire’s Fragments sur l’Inde and the problem of enlightened commerceJames Watt, Fictions of commercial empire, 1774-1782Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa, The Spanish translation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's La Chaumière indienne: its fortunes and significance in a country divided by ideology, politics and warJohn McAleer, Displaying its wares: material culture, the East India Company and British encounters with India in the long eighteenth centuryMogens R. Nissen, The Danish Asiatic Company: colonial expansion and commercial interestsLakshmi Subramanian, Whose pirate? Reflections on state power and predation on India’s western littoralFlorence D’Souza, A comparative study of English and French views of pre-colonial SuratSeema Alavi, The Mughal decline and the emergence of new global connections in early modern IndiaSummariesList of contributorsBibliographyIndex

Reviews‘The broad range of scholarship here will guide many experienced researchers to the volume, in search of particular essays, or clusters of essays on specific research questions or focal areas. The same breadth may recommend the entire volume to teachers keen to show their students that transnational history of colonialism is a thriving interdisciplinary field in which much exciting work remains to be done.’‘Adopting multi-disciplinary approaches, contributors stress the complexity, subtlety and intricacy of the remarkable global connections between India and Europe in the eighteenth century. It will undoubtedly provoke not only lively debate, but also much further research.The BARS Review