Curiosities and Oddities: Local, Epistemic, and Material Responses to Early Modern Globalisation in Deccan and South India, 1600 - 1800

17世纪和18世纪，印度次大陆的半岛地区与全球世界--西亚、非洲、欧洲和东南亚--之间有着密切的联系。然而，早期现代南亚的史学倾向于帝国发展阴影下的政治变迁（Alavi 2008），以及作为殖民征服前奏的早期现代全球化的经济影响（Rayachaudhuri，Habib 2008）。最近的工作已经开始通过研究伊斯兰文化和波斯文化的传播，将半岛地区置于文化变革的重要领域（伊顿2019，奥弗顿2020）和欧亚相遇（Subrahmanyam 2011，货车Meersbergen 2021）。然而，该奖学金尚未开始探索早期现代全球化对认识论思维的影响，南亚半岛的视觉和物质文化与生产，以及当地对不断变化的秩序的看法和反应。我的项目探讨了十七世纪和十八世纪德干和南印度的社会如何感知，回应和适应早期现代全球化中出现的文化多元性。我想回答的问题是：--对国家、宗教和更广阔世界的文化的日益增长的意识如何影响17世纪德卡尼和纳亚卡宫廷的意识形态、赞助人和知识趋势？--来自欧洲、东南亚和非洲的商品交换如何影响沿着科罗曼德海岸的材料生产和消费知识？当地居民是如何与18世纪的欧洲定居点（如马德拉斯和本地治里）接触的？外国人的存在如何融入他们的世界观？

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw intensive contact between the peninsular region of theIndian subcontinent and the global world - West Asia, Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia. Historiographyof early modern South Asia however has leaned towards political shifts in the shadow of imperialdevelopments (Alavi 2008), and the economic impacts of early modern globalisation as a prelude tocolonial conquest (Rayachaudhuri, Habib 2008). Recent work has begun to place the peninsular region inglobal spheres of cultural change by studying the spread of Islamicate and Persianate culture (Eaton2019, Overton 2020) and European-Asian encounters (Subrahmanyam 2011, Van Meersbergen 2021).However, that scholarship has not yet begun to explore the impacts of early modern globalisation onepistemological thinking, visual and material culture and production in the South Asian peninsula, as wellas local perspectives and responses to the changing order. My project explores how society in theDeccan and South India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries perceived, responded to andadapted to cultural plurality emerging from early modern globalisation. The questions I aim to answerare:- How did a growing consciousness of states, religions, and cultures of the wider world affect ideology,patronage and intellectual trends in seventeenth-century Deccani and Nayaka courts?- How did commodity exchange from Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa affect knowledge of materialproduction and consumption along the Coromandel Coast?- How did local populations engage with eighteenth-century European settlements such as Madras andPondicherry? How did foreign presence fit into their worldview?