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Three Ways to be Alien

Paperback • 2011 • English

Three Ways to be Alien

By Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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About the book

Sanjay Subrahmanyam's Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian" prince of Bijapur (in central India, no less) held hostage by the Portuguese at Goa; English traveler and global schemer Anthony Sherley, whose writings reveal a surprisingly nimble understanding of realpolitik in the emerging world of the early seven...Show more

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ISBN

9781584659921

Publisher

University Press of New England

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Three Ways to be Alien

Format

Paperback

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