The Jesuit Contribution to the Geographical Knowledge of India in the Eighteenth Century

While the mapping activities of French Jesuits in China and New France have been extensively studied, those in India have received less attention. While benefiting from the French crown's interest in using the Jesuits as a tool for empire, they did not help develop an overarching imperial struc...

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Main Author: Restif-Filliozat, Manonmani (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-84
RelBib Classification:AF Geography of religion
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBM Asia
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
Further subjects:B Jean-Baptiste d'Anville
B Jesuit Cartography
B Académie des Sciences
B Étienne Souciet
B Claude-Stanislas Boudier
B India
B Gaston-Laurent Cœurdoux
B Guillaume Delisle
B Claude Moriset
B Pondicherry
B France
B Jean-Venant Bouchet
B Louis-Noël de Bourzes
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