2018 Articles
Space, Sociality, and Sources of Pleasure: A Response to Sanjay Subrahmanyam
This response essay engages with the themes of space, sociality, and sources (of pleasure and of scholarship) in Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s article in this issue, “The Hidden Face of Surat.” I reflect on how the Persianate adab that was a dominant cultural form in this port city might cause us to mitigate our analytical concepts when approaching phenomena from different historical contexts. I propose historical inquiry as a form of translation, to look for ways of understanding difference and engaging across it that may or may not be the same as European cosmopolitanism.
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- Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341449
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- Academic Units
- Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
- Published Here
- December 22, 2020
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Keywords: Persianate – cosmopolitanism – difference – translation – adab – Indian Ocean