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Subrahmanyam, Sanjay |
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Once bitten, twice shy: A French Traveller and go-between in Mughal India, 1648–67 |
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The Indian Economic and Social History Review |
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58(2), Apr-Jun, 2021: p.153-212 |
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This article examines the materials around François le Gouz de la Boullaye, a French gentilhomme (gentleman or minor aristocrat) from the Anjou Province of western France, who visited India twice, once in the late 1640s, and again in the mid-1660s. The result of his first visit, in which he mostly spent time in Surat and Goa, was an extended travel-narrative, the Voyages et Observations, of which two editions appeared in 1653 and 1657. On this basis, Boullaye became a fairly well-known ‘expert’ on Islamic and Indian affairs in Louis XIV’s France. Because of his reputation, he was then chosen as a member of an embassy sent to open trading relations with Safavid Iran and Mughal India in 1664 on behalf of the French Compagnie des Indes. This second visit was not a great success on account of misconceptions regarding diplomatic protocols and because of deep rivalries and divisions amongst rival French actors, including celebrated travellers like Bernier and Tavernier. – Reproduced
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Mughal India, Louis XIV, France, Compagnie des Indes, Boullaye, Bernier, Tavernier |
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The Indian Economic and Social History Review |
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INDIA - HISTORY |
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