The European Gaze on India 1519–1946 · 1947 epilogue About

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Baroque, Mughals and Companies

By the mid-seventeenth century, India is no longer chiefly a coastline at the edge of classical geography. European mapmakers increasingly organise the subcontinent around the Mughal court, the trading companies and the sea routes that connect them. French geographers impose a restrained political order; Dutch, German and Italian publishers turn that order into an atlas commodity. The gaze remains external, but it has become dynastic, commercial and confident: India as an empire to describe, a market to enter and a route to control.

India below and beyond the Ganges, or the Empire of the Great Mogul India below and beyond the Ganges, or the Empire of the Great Mogul1654 Empire du Mogol Empire du Mogol1682 Old Persia and Old India Old Persia and Old India1702 India and Southeast Asia India and Southeast Asia1703 The Bay of Bengal, Ceylon, the Maldives and the Andaman Islands The Bay of Bengal, Ceylon, the Maldives and the Andaman Islands1708 Genealogy of the Mughal Emperors Genealogy of the Mughal Emperors1719 Carte nouvelle des terres au sud du Grand Mogol Carte nouvelle des terres au sud du Grand Mogol1719 Malabar, Coromandel and Ceylon Malabar, Coromandel and Ceylon1733 L’Inde — composite L’Inde — composite1752 Carte de l’Inde — southern sheets Carte de l’Inde — southern sheets1752 East Indies East Indies1763 Les Indes Orientales Les Indes Orientales1779