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SUMMARY:‘For a little amusement’: A Brutal Look at Leisure in Early Mo
 dern Indo-Danish Relations  - Josefine Baark\, Department of Art History\,
  University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:A beautifully painted textile\, known as the Tranquebar palamp
 ore\, has sat unstudied in the Danish Design Museum for a little less than
  a century.  At first glance\, it depicts a world of violence: An elephant
  runs rampant\, leaving a trail of mangled corpses behind it\, Danish sold
 iers fire canons\, while a woman trains her gun at a fleeing deer and a ma
 n stabs a squealing pig through the heart. Hence\, although little was kno
 wn of its patronage or arrival in Denmark\, it has been unanimously used b
 y Danish historians as an illustration of early modern Danish military ‘
 dominance’ in Southern India. This is a fallacy. At closer observation\,
  a world of both Danish and Indian royalty and splendour reveals itself al
 ongside a leisurely\, early modern and decidedly everyday brutality.\nMy p
 aper will reveal previously unrecognized primary evidence that suggests th
 e textile was commissioned by the Maratha ruler\, Tukkoji I of Thanjavur. 
 Moreover\, this visual evidence will shed important light on the rituals a
 nd ceremonies associated with gift giving and tribute in early modern Sout
 h Indian courts. Ultimately\, the textile provides a richly detailed glanc
 e into the world of diplomatic relations between Europe and India in the e
 arly eighteenth century. 
LOCATION:S2 Seminar Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd.
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