Encounters on the Opposite Coast : the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century.
- 1st ed.
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- European Expansion and Indigenous Response Series ; v.17 .
- European Expansion and Indigenous Response Series .
Intro -- Encounters on the Opposite Coast: The Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- List of Plates, Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: Images and Ideologies -- 2: Treasure for Textiles: The Import Trade -- 3: Treasure for Textiles: The Export Trade -- Figures following -- 4: First Encounter: A False Start, 1645-1657 -- 5: From Sideshow to Main Theatre of War, 1658-1669 -- 6: The Bitter Fruits of War, 1670-1679 -- 7: Splendid Isolation, 1680-1690 -- Personalia -- Currency, Weights, and Measures -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
In Encounters on the Opposite Coast Markus Vink offers a detailed narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Nayaka state of Madurai in southeast India (c. 1645-1690).