Haig Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 5668103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haig Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haig |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0691-7453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
English East India Company cultural knowledge and governmental responses to South Asian religious diversity between 1601 and 1700
This article examines how encounters with South Asian religious diversity shaped the English East India Company’s systems of knowledge, governance, and authority between 1601 and 1700. Moving beyond interpretations that emphasise commerce or geopolitics, it argues that religion was central to the company’s early development as a governing institution. Drawing on company correspondence, travel accounts, administrative records, and the writings of …
Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660)
This Chapter investigates an extraordinary group of company agents who have often been overlooked, but were ubiquitous in overseas corporate life; the chaplain. It provides a detailed assessment of the daily lives and responsibilities of chaplains. Moreover, it traces how they became important figures of control who policed over the spiritual and earthly lives of personnel in religiously and governmentally diverse environments of India, the Levan…
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Risky Business
Journal Article Risky Business: The Seventeenth-Century English Company Chaplain, and Policing Interaction and Knowledge Exchange Get access Haig Z Smith Haig Z Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 60, Issue 2, Spring 2018, Pages 226–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csx002 Published: 14 March 2017
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Risky Business
Journal Article Risky Business: The Seventeenth-Century English Company Chaplain, and Policing Interaction and Knowledge Exchange Get access Haig Z Smith Haig Z Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 60, Issue 2, Spring 2018, Pages 226–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csx002 Published: 14 March 2017
Risky Business
Journal Article Risky Business: The Seventeenth-Century English Company Chaplain, and Policing Interaction and Knowledge Exchange Get access Haig Z Smith Haig Z Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 60, Issue 2, Spring 2018, Pages 226–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csx002 Published: 14 March 2017
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the co…
Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660)
This Chapter investigates an extraordinary group of company agents who have often been overlooked, but were ubiquitous in overseas corporate life; the chaplain. It provides a detailed assessment of the daily lives and responsibilities of chaplains. Moreover, it traces how they became important figures of control who policed over the spiritual and earthly lives of personnel in religiously and governmentally diverse environments of India, the Levan…
English East India Company cultural knowledge and governmental responses to South Asian religious diversity between 1601 and 1700
This article examines how encounters with South Asian religious diversity shaped the English East India Company’s systems of knowledge, governance, and authority between 1601 and 1700. Moving beyond interpretations that emphasise commerce or geopolitics, it argues that religion was central to the company’s early development as a governing institution. Drawing on company correspondence, travel accounts, administrative records, and the writings of …
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