This book explores how European, particularly French, adventurers
shaped early modern India. It highlights the significant
contributions of these adventurers in social, political, economic,
and intellectual life of north India in the 18th and the 19th
centuries. The author examines how the French adventurers played a
key role in bringing Western science and ideas to a polity in flux.
He examines the role of individuals like Rene Madec, Sombre, De
Boigne, Perron, Gentil, Canaple, Delamarr, Sonson, and Pedrose, who
made instrumental contributions in modernising armies of pre-modern
states in South Asia. The volume also underlines how French
adventurers' commercial networks developing from their enterprises
opened up markets in the heartlands of north India for European
consumers. Further, it brings to the fore intellectual pursuits of
the leading French figures such as Anquetil Duperron, Polier,
Gentil, De Boigne, and Perron, whose engagement with Indian
literature opened a new chapter framing studies of the Occident.
Rich in French, English, and translated Persian archival resources,
this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of
colonial history, early modern history, military history, and South
Asian studies.
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