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 seventeenth century; and Nicolo
Manuzzi, an insightful Venetian chronicler of the Mughal Empire in
the later seventeenth century who drifted between jobs with the
Mughals and various foreign entrepots, observing all but remaining
the eternal outsider. In telling the fascinating story of floating
identities in a changing world, Subrahmanyam also succeeds in
injecting humanity into global history and proves that biography
still plays an important role in contemporary historiography.
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