02770nam a22003617a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040001000080041000800090082002000098100003000118100002400148245014000172260005100312300001600363520157900379650001301958650003501971650002302006650001702029650002202046650001702068650001602085650002802101650003402129650001802163942000702181942000802188942001102196999001702207952018402224OSt20241123114501.0241123b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780199452675  cSTCPL  aENG  a954.029 bANG-C  aXavier, Ângela Barreto   aŽupanov, Ines G.   aCatholic orientalism: bPortuguese empire, Indian knowledge (16th-18th centuries) / cby Ângela Barreto Xavier and Ines G. Županov   aNew Delhi: b Oxford university press ,c2015.  a386 p. bHB  aThis book explores the process of knowledge production in and about South Asia during the late medieval and early modern periods. Disseminated through the global networks of the early modern Portuguese empire (16th-18th centuries), this process was inextricably connected to the expansion of Catholicism. It was geared to perpetuate the political ambitions and cultural imaginary of the early modern Catholic protagonists and their communities in South Asia and beyond.
As an integral part of the Portuguese imperial 'information order' established in Asia, Catholic Orientalism was responsible for creating an epistemic toolbox, in which several significant concepts were first tested and developed: such as "caste", "Brahmanism", "paganism", "the torrid zone", "oriental despotism", and many others. However, from the mid-18th century, the British empire changed the map of knowledge about South Asia and in the process Catholic Orientalism was both assimilated and discarded as tainted by unreasonable Catholicism and too close to equally unreasonable "native" Indian point of view.

Through a series of case studies, this book chronicles the rise and the decline of the Catholic knowledge of South Asia which had not been, at any point, only and simply "Portuguese". Multiple sources, polyglot archives and actors moving ever more swiftly through space and time, with divided loyalties, often disregarding "national" divisions and wearing many different hats are at the heart of the narrative which starts at the turn of the 16th century and ends by the end of the 18th.  aHistory   aIndia b- 16th-18th Centuries   aPortuguese Empire   aCatholicism   aIndian knowledge   aOrientalism   aBrahmanism   aFranciscan Orientalism   aPortuguese Linguistic Empire   aTranslations   cBK  2ddc  2ddcn0  c83795d83795  00102ddc408HIS70aSTCPLbSTCPLcHISd2024-11-23g1095.00l1o954.029  ANG-Cp92058r2024-11-26 11:36:45s2024-11-26w2024-11-23yBKzComplement from Fr. Mathew Alapattumedayil