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...Richmond Barbour Focusing on the London East India Company's (EIC) first trading center abroad, the factory in Bantam on Java, this essay explores corporate traumas and divisions of interest in this protoglobal organization that illuminate ongoing volatilities in global capitalism. The factory...

...Amrita Sen While considering the many economic and personal relationships forged in the Indian Ocean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the friendships and collaborations among European women and their counterparts in Mughal India often remain neglected. In reality these women traveled...

...Timothy Davies This article explores the “private trade” network of British East India Company merchants in one segment of the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world, foregrounding a new perspective on this element of European commerce in early modern Asia. Much recent work on this topic emphasizes...

...Robert Markley Arguably the most influential account of South and Southeast Asia published in Britain before the mid-eighteenth century, Alexander Hamilton's New Account of the East-Indies (1727) has been ignored or marginalized by recent historians of the British East India Company. Hamilton spent...

...Bryan Hull Khan Nyla Ali , Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan , New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Book Reviews bryan hull, portland community college Nyla Ali Khan, Islam, Women, and Violence...

...Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski This essay investigates the reemergence of Cārvāka materialist philosophy in late sixteenth-century Mughal India and its possible relation to and impact on the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. India's ancient tradition of materialist philosophy (originally called...

... India. The author reads the male protagonists in the novel and the film and the film's implied viewers as improving subjects—characters and spectators that marry a capitalist's desire to turn waste to profit and a New Historical impulse to uncover hidden narratives and make them count. She argues...

...Nancy Um This article brings together the trade records of the Dutch and English East India Companies' merchants, chronicles in Arabic, and a published French travel narrative to shed light on an overlooked phenomenon, that of early modern medical diplomacy to Qasimi Yemen during the early...

... to imaginative and political futures. In The Romantics , bildung turns into an enduring historical trauma; Mishra juxtaposes various trajectories of individual and national growth both before and after India's adoption of SAP policies in 1991 to show how the symbolic realization of full and free personality...

... his identity in the rapidly modernizing world of twentieth‐century India. Ananthamurthy's bildungsroman, while retaining some structural similarities, departs from European models in fundamental ways. The motif of the hero's journey, for instance, is flipped. The novel tracks the hero's growing...

... da Gama to India, 1497–1499 . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill . Aslanian Sebouh . 2011 . From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa . Berkeley : University of California Press . Blum Hester . 2010 . “The Prospect...

... . `` India .'' Variety International Film Guide 2000 . Ed. Cowie Peter . London : Faber and Faber , 2000 . 169 - 174 . Do the Right Thing . Dir. Lee Spike . Perf. Aielo Danny Dee Ruby Davis Ossie . Universal , 1989 . The Fifth Element . Dir. Besson Luc . Perf...

... , 1860 . —-. `` Humboldt at Home .'' Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art March 1857 . —-. India, China and Japan . New York : G.P. Putnam & Co. , 1855 . —-. `` Japan .'' Box: Lectures of Bayard Taylor . Chester County Historical Society . —-. Letter...

... Ashutosh . 2012 . “Battles Half Won: Political Economy of India's Growth and Economic Policy since Independence.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy , edited by Ghate Chetan , 56 – 102 . New York : Oxford University Press . Armendáriz Beatriz Morduch Jonathan . 2010...

... History to the Early Twentieth Century.” Archipel , no. 28 : 117 – 48 . Kaislaniemi Samuli . 2009 . “Jurebassos and Linguists: The East India Company and Early Modern English Words for ‘Interpreter.’ ” In Selected Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical...

... historical and conceptual framework. Chapter One, "The Far East, The East India Company, and the English Imagina- tion" demonstrates, for example, how the East India Company arose within a relatively sophisticated global economy, where China played an important role. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century...

...: Between India and Pakistan, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 To write about conflicts such as those in Palestine, Kashmir, or the Sudan is a vital, essential political act. Such projects carry with them, rightly or wrongly, immense responsibility and weight, because the perspective a writer...

...Caren Irr COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2006 WORKS CITED `` The Litigious Yogi ,'' The Economist ( 19 June 2004 ). 20 December 2004 < http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2765973 >. Alter Joseph S. Yoga in Modern India...

... . 1991 . VOC: A Bibliography of Publications Relating to the Dutch East India Company, 1602–1800 . Utrecht, Netherlands : HES . [ Lodewycksz Willem ]. 1617 . 't Eerste Boeck. Historie van Indien, waer inne verhaelt is de avonturen die de Hollantse Schepen bejegent zijn … . Amsterdam...

... “purity,” a geographically and culturally “other” India that includes southern hubs like Chennai (Pugsley 2016 : 403). The nationalistic sentiment of films contrasting a supposedly developed and underdeveloped India, according to Anuradha Ghosh ( 2012 : 107), “often needed a Hindi versus the other(s...