A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India

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dc.contributor.authorAgmon, Dannaen
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-04T14:51:12Zen
dc.date.available2018-10-04T14:51:12Zen
dc.date.issued2017en
dc.description.abstractEarly in the eighteenth century, in the French colony of Pondichéry, India, a man’s life was thrust into turmoil. A Tamil commercial broker named Nayiniyappa, the colony’s most powerful local man, was arrested, swiftly convicted of tyranny and sedition, and died in prison while serving out his sentence. But following his death a global mobilization effort on his behalf ensued, and the French King exonerated Nayiniyappa posthumously. The struggle over this man’s guilt or innocence drew into debate merchants of the French trading company, the Compagnie des Indes, Catholic missionaries of various orders, high ranking officials in Paris and Versailles, and local families in Pondichéry. As they fought over Nayiniyappa’s fate, they also articulated radically different visions of the French colonial project in India. This microhistory of the affair and the fault lines it reveals shows that conflicts between and within the projects of trade and religion were a defining feature of the little-known French empire in South Asia.en
dc.description.sponsorshipPublication of this book was supported by Virginia Tech through the TOME Open Monograph Initiative.en
dc.format.extent236 pagesen
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/epub+zipen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/x-mobipocket-ebooken
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501709937.001.0001en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-5017-1307-1en
dc.identifier.isbn9781501713071en
dc.identifier.isbn9781501713064en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/85229en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherCornell University Pressen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subject.lccDS485.P66en
dc.subject.lcshCompagnie des Indes orientales -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshFrench -- India -- Puducherry (Union Territory) -- History -- 18th centuryen
dc.subject.lcshPuducherry (India : Union Territory) -- History -- 18th centuryen
dc.titleA Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French Indiaen
dc.typeBooken
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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