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Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642: Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company book cover

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Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642 Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company

By Amrita Sen Copyright 2026
186 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent, this book examines what it might have meant to perform as Indian in distinct economic and political spaces in early modern England. Turning to the years leading up to and following the establishment of the East India Company, it explores how the arrival of new material... Read more

Acknowledgements

Note on Transcription Practices

List of Illustrations

 

 

Introduction: “Here, Come from the farthest Steppe of India”:  East India Company, Racecraft and Domestic Transculturation in early modern England

 

Before the Company (1575-1599)

1.      Imagining India before East India Company: The Queen's Majesty's Entertainment at Woodstock and New Cartographies of Exchange

2.      Changelings, Bottom, and Transnational Exchange: Finding the Indian in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

Early Company Years (1600-1642)

3.      Blackness and Spices: East India Company and Problems of Exchange in Civic Spectacle

4.      Playing an Indian Queen: Curiosity Cabinets, Ethnography, and The Temple of Love

 

5.      Epilogue: The Avatar Franchise and the Ghosts of Indians Past

 

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director, UGC-MMTTC, University of Calcutta, and affiliated faculty, Department of English. She has published extensively on early modern drama, East India Company women, Mughal collecting, and Indian Shakespeares.

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