Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, IntroductionAnthony Strugnell, A view from afar: India in Raynal’s Histoire des deux IndesClaire Gallien, British orientalism, Indo-Persian historiography and the politics of global knowledgeJaved Majeed, Globalising the Goths: ‘The siren shores of Oriental literature’ in John Richardson’s A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English (1777-1780) Deirdre Coleman, ‘Voyage of conception’: John Keats and IndiaSonja Lawrenson, ‘The country chosen of my heart’: the comic cosmopolitanism of The Orientalist, or, electioneering in Ireland, a tale, by myselfDaniel Sanjiv Roberts, Orientalism and ‘textual attitude’: Bernier’s appropriation by Southey and OwensonFelicia Gottmann, Intellectual history as global history: Voltaire’s Fragments sur l’Inde and the problem of enlightened commerceJames Watt, Fictions of commercial empire, 1774-1782Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa, The Spanish translation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's La Chaumière indienne: its fortunes and significance in a country divided by ideology, politics and warJohn McAleer, Displaying its wares: material culture, the East India Company and British encounters with India in the long eighteenth centuryMogens R. Nissen, The Danish Asiatic Company: colonial expansion and commercial interestsLakshmi Subramanian, Whose pirate? Reflections on state power and predation on India’s western littoralFlorence D’Souza, A comparative study of English and French views of pre-colonial SuratSeema Alavi, The Mughal decline and the emergence of new global connections in early modern IndiaSummariesList of contributorsBibliographyIndex

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