| Summary: | The long eighteenth century was a period of major transformation for Europe and India as imperialism heralded a new global order. Eschewing the reductive perspectives of nation-state histories and postcolonial ‘east vs west’ oppositions, contributors to India and Europe in the global eighteenth century put forward a more nuanced and interdisciplinary analysis. Using eastern as well as western sources, authors present fresh insights into European and Indian relations and highlight:<br/> • how anxieties over war and piracy shaped commercial activity;<br/> • how French, British and Persian histories of India reveal the different geo-political issues at stake;<br/> • the material legacy of India in European cultural life;<br/> • how novels parodied popular views of the Orient and provided counter-narratives to images of India as the site of corruption;<br/> • how social transformations, traditionally characterised as ‘Mughal decline’, in effect forged new global connections that informed political culture into the nineteenth century. <br/><br/> Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Introduction<br/> Anthony Strugnell, A view from afar: India in Raynal’s <em>Histoire des deux Indes</em><br/> Claire Gallien, British orientalism, Indo-Persian historiography and the politics of global knowledge<br/> Javed Majeed, Globalising the Goths: ‘The siren shores of Oriental literature’ in John Richardson’s<em> A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English</em> (1777-1780) <br/> Deirdre Coleman, ‘Voyage of conception’: John Keats and India<br/> Sonja Lawrenson, ‘The country chosen of my heart’: the comic cosmopolitanism of <em>The Orientalist, or, electioneering in Ireland, a tale, by myself</em><br/> Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Orientalism and ‘textual attitude’: Bernier’s appropriation by Southey and Owenson<br/> Felicia Gottmann, Intellectual history as global history: Voltaire’s <em>Fragments sur l’Inde</em> and the problem of enlightened commerce<br/> James Watt, Fictions of commercial empire, 1774-1782<br/> Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa, The Spanish translation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's <em>La Chaumière indienne</em>: its fortunes and significance in a country divided by ideology, politics and war<br/> John McAleer, Displaying its wares: material culture, the East India Company and British encounters with India in the long eighteenth century<br/> Mogens R. Nissen, The Danish Asiatic Company: colonial expansion and commercial interests<br/> Lakshmi Subramanian, Whose pirate? Reflections on state power and predation on India’s western littoral<br/> Florence D’Souza, A comparative study of English and French views of pre-colonial Surat<br/> Seema Alavi, The Mughal decline and the emergence of new global connections in early modern India<br/> Summaries<br/> List of contributors<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/>
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