Ananya Chakravarti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ananya Chakravarti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ananya |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakravarti |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRAVARTI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9282-6202 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries
In the wake of the establishment of the Portuguese in the region, slavery was fundamentally constitutive of early modern society on the west coast of India. While indigenous hierarchies and existing systems of slavery shaped Portuguese slavery, over time, indigenous society too was transformed by the extensive reliance on enslaved labor facilitated by European trafficking networks. Centering slavery in the study of South Asian history underscores…
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India. Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th–17th Centuries), written by Antony Mecherry, S.J
Mapping 'Gabriel: Space, Identity and Slavery in the Late Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean
This article maps the life of an Ethiopian slave in the late sixteenth century Indian Ocean world, whose life is known to us through the records of two trials in the Inquisition of Goa. The case study allows an exploration of the connections between regimes of slavery within the interior of South Asia and the oceanic networks of enslavement of the European powers, specifically the Portuguese in this case. Unlike methodological approaches focused …
The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India
Invisible Cities: Natural and Social Space in Colonial Brazil
This chapter argues that the Portuguese colonization of Brazil involved a rupture of the native Tupinambá’s system of spatial organization, whether considered as natural, social, or cosmological space. Three sets of texts produced at the very end of the sixteenth century are adduced here to reconstruct native “invisible cities” and the way they were recorded over by Portuguese imperial culture: geographical description, aldeia plays, and epic poe…
History is Everything: An Interview with Alison Games
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BetweenBhaktiandPietà: Untangling Emotion in Marāṭhī Christian Poetry
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2015. Metafísicas Canibais. São Paulo: Cosac Naify. 280 p
Peripheral eyes: Brazilians and India, 1947–61
The post-Second World War era witnessed the need for new political forms to accommodate the aspirations for national identity of newly decolonized nations within the hegemonic structure of the Cold War. Although both Cold War historiography and postcolonial studies have analysed these phenomena, the place of Latin America in general and Brazil in particular remains fraught with conceptual difficulties, largely due to the very different (post)colo…
The Affective (Re)turn and Early Modern European History
The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: Imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
The Jesuit Baltasar da Costa devoted his life to the Madurai mission in seventeenth century Tamil Nadu during the rule of the Nāyaka kings. He was the first Christian missionary to style himself as a paṇṭāram, a Śaiva priest to the lower castes. This paper will argue that his mimetic practice can best be appreciated if read bi-directionally, through the language of European humanism and religious thought, as well as through the new symbolic codes…
In the Language of the Land: Native Conversion in Jesuit Public Letters from Brazil and India
This paper begins with a simple problem: given the implicit Ignatian model for conversion and of conversion narratives for those already within the Christian fold, how did Jesuit missionaries in the colonies represent native conversion? To what extent were these colonial conversion narratives responding to the demands of Jesuit representational norms and to what extent did they reflect local realities? To address this question, this paper will ex…
Jaina Literature in Tamil
Mapping 'Gabriel: Space, Identity and Slavery in the Late Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean
This article maps the life of an Ethiopian slave in the late sixteenth century Indian Ocean world, whose life is known to us through the records of two trials in the Inquisition of Goa. The case study allows an exploration of the connections between regimes of slavery within the interior of South Asia and the oceanic networks of enslavement of the European powers, specifically the Portuguese in this case. Unlike methodological approaches focused …
Peripheral eyes: Brazilians and India, 1947–61
The post-Second World War era witnessed the need for new political forms to accommodate the aspirations for national identity of newly decolonized nations within the hegemonic structure of the Cold War. Although both Cold War historiography and postcolonial studies have analysed these phenomena, the place of Latin America in general and Brazil in particular remains fraught with conceptual difficulties, largely due to the very different (post)colo…
Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries
In the wake of the establishment of the Portuguese in the region, slavery was fundamentally constitutive of early modern society on the west coast of India. While indigenous hierarchies and existing systems of slavery shaped Portuguese slavery, over time, indigenous society too was transformed by the extensive reliance on enslaved labor facilitated by European trafficking networks. Centering slavery in the study of South Asian history underscores…
Jaina Literature in Tamil
In the Language of the Land: Native Conversion in Jesuit Public Letters from Brazil and India
This paper begins with a simple problem: given the implicit Ignatian model for conversion and of conversion narratives for those already within the Christian fold, how did Jesuit missionaries in the colonies represent native conversion? To what extent were these colonial conversion narratives responding to the demands of Jesuit representational norms and to what extent did they reflect local realities? To address this question, this paper will ex…
The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: Imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission
The Jesuit Baltasar da Costa devoted his life to the Madurai mission in seventeenth century Tamil Nadu during the rule of the Nāyaka kings. He was the first Christian missionary to style himself as a paṇṭāram, a Śaiva priest to the lower castes. This paper will argue that his mimetic practice can best be appreciated if read bi-directionally, through the language of European humanism and religious thought, as well as through the new symbolic codes…
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2015. Metafísicas Canibais. São Paulo: Cosac Naify. 280 p
Peripheral eyes: Brazilians and India, 1947–61
The post-Second World War era witnessed the need for new political forms to accommodate the aspirations for national identity of newly decolonized nations within the hegemonic structure of the Cold War. Although both Cold War historiography and postcolonial studies have analysed these phenomena, the place of Latin America in general and Brazil in particular remains fraught with conceptual difficulties, largely due to the very different (post)colo…
The Affective (Re)turn and Early Modern European History
Invisible Cities: Natural and Social Space in Colonial Brazil
This chapter argues that the Portuguese colonization of Brazil involved a rupture of the native Tupinambá’s system of spatial organization, whether considered as natural, social, or cosmological space. Three sets of texts produced at the very end of the sixteenth century are adduced here to reconstruct native “invisible cities” and the way they were recorded over by Portuguese imperial culture: geographical description, aldeia plays, and epic poe…
History is Everything: An Interview with Alison Games
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
BetweenBhaktiandPietà: Untangling Emotion in Marāṭhī Christian Poetry
The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India
Mapping 'Gabriel: Space, Identity and Slavery in the Late Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean
This article maps the life of an Ethiopian slave in the late sixteenth century Indian Ocean world, whose life is known to us through the records of two trials in the Inquisition of Goa. The case study allows an exploration of the connections between regimes of slavery within the interior of South Asia and the oceanic networks of enslavement of the European powers, specifically the Portuguese in this case. Unlike methodological approaches focused …
Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India. Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th–17th Centuries), written by Antony Mecherry, S.J
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries
In the wake of the establishment of the Portuguese in the region, slavery was fundamentally constitutive of early modern society on the west coast of India. While indigenous hierarchies and existing systems of slavery shaped Portuguese slavery, over time, indigenous society too was transformed by the extensive reliance on enslaved labor facilitated by European trafficking networks. Centering slavery in the study of South Asian history underscores…
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