Cultural Encounters in India: Local Co-Workers of the Tranquebar Mission 18th-19th Centuries - Hardcover

Heike Liebau

 
9788187358725: Cultural Encounters in India: Local Co-Workers of the Tranquebar Mission 18th-19th Centuries

Synopsis

This book represents a significant contribution to historical understanding of India. Beyond her grasps of Eurocentic historiographies lies her remarkably astute command of Indocentric perspectives.

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About the Author

Heike Liebau is Senior Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. Her research interest lies in the history of cultural encounters, biographical studies and questions of knowledge production. She is the co-editor of Halle and the Beginning of Protestant Christianity in India (with Y. Vincent Kumaradoss and Andreas Gross), Halle 2006; and of The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia (with Katrin  Bromber, Katharina Lange, Dyala Hamzah, Ravi Ahuja), Leiden, Boston 2010.

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