The 'India of the West' in Deccan dress: rewriting the history of Spanish conquest in seventeenth-century South Asia.
This paper uses a singular, purportedly South Asian illustrated manuscript of the Tarih-i Hind-i garbi (History of the India of the West), now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, to explore how artists in seventeenth-century South Asia may have rendered the history of the Spanish invasion of Me...
| Published in: | Colonial Latin American Review Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 535 - 574 |
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Dec2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=182848560&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 182848560 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10609164 LTA jtl: Colonial Latin American Review issn: 10609164 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2024 vid: 33 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 182848560 10.1080/10609164.2024.2429256 ppf: 535 ppct: 39 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 3.8MB tig: atl: The 'India of the West' in Deccan dress: rewriting the history of Spanish conquest in seventeenth-century South Asia. aug: au: Houghteling, Sylvia affil: Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr su: Manuscripts Archival materials Spanish language European painting Christians Religious identity sug: subj: Manuscripts Archival materials Spanish language European painting Christians Religious identity keyword: Bijapur Francisco López de Gómara Goa Hernán Cortés Moteuczoma Tarih-i Hind-i garbi translation ab: This paper uses a singular, purportedly South Asian illustrated manuscript of the Tarih-i Hind-i garbi (History of the India of the West), now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, to explore how artists in seventeenth-century South Asia may have rendered the history of the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica. Although the earlier, Ottoman versions of this text are better known, the manuscript under study has been attributed by past scholars to India's southern Deccan region. Part of the aim of this article is to provide textual and visual support for this attribution. Moreover, this article traces specific word choices, selective omissions, and written insertions within the Chester Beatty Library's manuscript of the Tarih-i Hind-i garbi that together transform the story of the conquest of Mesoamerica and further distinguish it from Francisco López de Gómara's 1552 account, from whose Spanish-language text (and its Italian renditions) the translation is adapted. The most elaborate painting in the Chester Beatty Library's manuscript depicts a scene of Moteuczoma visiting his temple. The imprisoned Mesoamerican ruler has been rendered in a European painting style using a symbolic South Asian composition. These textual and visual choices constitute a 'motivated mistranslation' that disrupts Gómara's defense of the conquest as a narrative of holy Christian conquest, equates Christian and Mesoamerican religious practices, and places the regal Moteuczoma, instead of the Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés, at the center of the narrative. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Colonial Latin American Review is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Colonial Latin American Review holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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