UID:
almahu_9949526144702882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9783205203605
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978-3-11-048510-3
Content:
Early modern India was an economic core region producing manifold textiles for export. During the sixteenth century a new customer entered the stage and expanded its influence from the city of Goa - Portugal. From early times, the Portuguese had bought and commissioned textiles, among them large embroideries from Bengal and Gujarat, which are the focus of this study. By providing European prints as models for the professional local embroiderers they created a novel product that was successful in Portugal and beyond throughout the seventeenth century. The textiles were deemed valuable and rare enough to be included in different travel accounts, letters and inventories, enabling us to trace their place of production , their transportation to Europe and their reception . Their intricate iconographies reflect political problematics of the time and shed light onto the intercultural circumstances of Portuguese colonial life.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Embroidered Histories --
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Colchas in The Socioeconomic Networks of The Time --
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Consumers and Taste --
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Dates, Itineraries, Provenances and Sources --
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The Production Centres --
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Colchas between India and Europe --
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Reception and Use --
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Material, Colour, Technique and Designs --
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Bengal Colchas --
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Colchas from Gujarat --
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Concluding Remarks --
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Catalogue --
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Bengal --
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Gujarat --
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Bibliography --
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Appendix --
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Index of Relevant Places and Persons
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016, De Gruyter, 978-3-11-048510-3
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE History 2016, De Gruyter, 978-3-11-048518-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783205202097
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7767/9783205203605
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7767/9783205203605
