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This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal court between 1580 and 1615. This 35-year period includes the launch of the first Jesuit mission to Akbar’s court in 1580 and the preparation of the royal embassy led by Sir Thomas Roe to negotiate the concession of trading privileges to the EIC, and encompasses not only the extension of the conflict between the Iberian crowns and England into Asia, but also the consolidation of the Mughal Empire. The book examines the proselytizing and diplomatic activities of the Jesuit missionaries, the evolution of English diplomatic strategies concerning the Mughal Empire, and how the Mughal authorities instigated and exploited Anglo-Iberian rivalry in the pursuit of specific commercial, geopolitical, and ideological agendas.

Asian history --- European history --- History of religion --- diplomacy --- transcultural exchange --- Ralph Fitch --- John Mildenhall --- Catholicism --- East India Company --- Jesuits --- History --- Missions --- Great Britain --- Mogul Empire --- Portugal --- Foreign relations --- Court and courtiers. --- Politics and government --- Mughal Empire

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This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal court between 1580 and 1615. This 35-year period includes the launch of the first Jesuit mission to Akbar’s court in 1580 and the preparation of the royal embassy led by Sir Thomas Roe to negotiate the concession of trading privileges to the EIC, and encompasses not only the extension of the conflict between the Iberian crowns and England into Asia, but also the consolidation of the Mughal Empire. The book examines the proselytizing and diplomatic activities of the Jesuit missionaries, the evolution of English diplomatic strategies concerning the Mughal Empire, and how the Mughal authorities instigated and exploited Anglo-Iberian rivalry in the pursuit of specific commercial, geopolitical, and ideological agendas.

Asian history --- European history --- History of religion --- diplomacy --- transcultural exchange --- Ralph Fitch --- John Mildenhall --- Catholicism --- East India Company --- Jesuits --- History --- Missions --- Great Britain --- Mughal Empire --- Portugal --- Foreign relations --- Court and courtiers. --- Politics and government

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The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges-in kinship and writing-that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies are coming together to provide groundbreaking ways of studying religion, diaspora, and empire. Ho interprets biographies, family histories, chronicles, pilgrimage manuals and religious law as the unified literary output of a diaspora that hybridizes both texts and persons within a genealogy of Prophetic descent. By using anthropological concepts to read Islamic texts in Arabic and Malay, he demonstrates the existence of a hitherto unidentified canon of diasporic literature. His supple conceptual framework and innovative use of documentary and field evidence are elegantly combined to present a vision of this vital world region beyond the histories of trade and European empire.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Tarīm (Yemen) --- Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) --- Muḥāfaẓat Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen) --- Hadhramaut (Yemen : Province) --- Hadramaut (Yemen : Province) --- Khadramaut (Yemen : Province) --- Ḥatsarmut (Yemen : Province) --- Governorate Number Five (Yemen) --- Fifth Governorate (Yemen) --- Al-Muḥāfaẓah al-Khāmisah (Yemen) --- Muḥāfaẓah al-Khāmisah (Yemen) --- Terīm (Yemen) --- Antiquities. --- Emigration and immigration --- History. --- #SBIB:39A75 --- #SBIB:95G --- Etnografie: Azië --- Geschiedenis van Azië (inclusief Arabische wereld, Nabije Oosten) --- anthropology. --- arabia. --- colonial rule. --- cultural anthropologists. --- diaspora studies. --- diaspora. --- diasporic literature. --- europe. --- family histories. --- genealogy. --- hadramis. --- historians. --- history and sociology. --- india. --- indian ocean. --- international relations. --- islam. --- islamic texts. --- literary studies. --- malay. --- migration. --- muhammad. --- muslims. --- nonfiction. --- postcolonialism. --- regional history. --- religious studies. --- southeast asia. --- textbooks. --- transcultural exchange. --- transcultural studies. --- world history. --- Hadramawt (Yemen : Province) --- Tarim (Yemen)