{"product_id":"a-passage-to-europe-the-astonishing-travels-of-an-indian-prince-in-the-age-of-revolutions-hardcover-1","title":"A Passage to Europe: The Astonishing Travels of an Indian Prince in the Age of Revolutions - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRahul Markovits\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was an Indian prince doing in the retinue of a French envoy at Constantinople in 1796? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Sultan Selim III, struck by the sight of a fellow Muslim in a French cortège, asked how he got there, he was told the traveller's extraordinary story. It had begun in 1772 with the annexation by the East India Company of Broach, a coastal town in Gujarat. Twenty years later, four sons of the town's deposed nawab headed towards London to seek redress. One of them, Ahmad Khan, reached Paris during the Reign of Terror and told his story to the new Revolutionary regime. Yet, although his tale was true, he was not the man he claimed to be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUncovering the elusive paper trail of a group of travellers across early colonial India, the Ottoman Empire and Revolutionary France, Rahul Markovits pieces together an astonishing range of fragments from a vast multilingual archive to illuminate in vivid detail how navigating regimes of protection and assistance was key to their securing a passage to Europe. The petitions the travellers submitted along the way and the stories of travails they contained were instrumental in fuelling their journey. They are also recognisably counter-narratives to dominant Eurocentric accounts of the Age of Revolutions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking readers backstage to challenge them into thinking how these stories can be turned into history, \u003ci\u003eA Passage to Europe\u003c\/i\u003e - looking at the material world of travellers, \"passing\" strategies, identification, translation and mistranslation, and the global micro-politics of mobility more generally - represents a brilliant and immensely readable contribution to connected histories.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRahul\u003cbr\u003eMarkovits is Associate Professor (\u003ci\u003emaître de conférences\u003c\/i\u003e) in early modern\u003cbr\u003ehistory at the École normale supérieure, France. His work focuses on\u003cbr\u003etransnational cultural exchange during the 18th century. His PhD dissertation, \u003ci\u003eCiviliser\u003cbr\u003el'Europe. Politiques du théâtre français au XVIIIe siècle, \u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the\u003cbr\u003e2012 Baluze Prize in European history and won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize\u003cbr\u003e2016. He is based in Paris. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48445031678173,"sku":"9781849250955","price":46.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/pxA3MrXfjS9781849250955_ae050a05-f1a9-4eab-8e7a-f5a4c90f8abd.webp?v=1787760115","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/a-passage-to-europe-the-astonishing-travels-of-an-indian-prince-in-the-age-of-revolutions-hardcover-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}