Dr Ines Županov... on Catholic Orientalism

Dr Ines Županov authored two books: Disputed Mission; Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999) and Missionary Tropics; The Catholic Frontier in India (16 th-17th centuries) (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2005). She is Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Here, she talks about her forthcoming book on "Catholic Orientalism", the understanding of India by (mainly) Southern and Catholic Europe... before the English and the Dutch... which is now often forgotten.

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• Dr Ines Županov
• history
• goa
• indo-portuguese
• catholic orientalism
• angela baretto xavier

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