The volume presents an account of the life of little-known foreigners from the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries who began to live in the Indian subcontinent. In the centuries before the British Raj was set up in the Indian subcontinent, when the Mughals reigned, many foreigners made India their home. The book presents their stories: the stories of healers, soldiers, artists, ascetic, thieves, pirates, slaves and others who were not powerful or privileged and were ...
