Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling Across Cultural Borders in South India
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9788125054375
Length
xiv+625p., Illustrations; Maps; 23cm.
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A rare Indian colony of the Danish empire. A place that fostered the modern printing press and Protestant Christianity in the subcontinent. A tourist haunt that was ravaged by the tsunami in 2004. This is Tranquebar, known as Tharangampadi, a charming coastal town in present-day Tamil Nadu. Beyond Tranquebar is a collection of twenty-four essays by scholars who bring to relief the many dimensions of this town. The book takes us to seventeenth-century Denmark, as ...
