Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance
South India Through European Eyes 1250-1625
Joan-Pau Rubies
Cambridge University Press
xxii+443 pages/Rs 950
The title of this book is misleading in that it suggests that South India is the subject of study. As the author points out in the preface itself, it is only in the context of changing perceptions of ethnological enquiry, which he locates in Renaissance Europe, that this region
