Fw: H-ASIA: India Orientalis (Prof. Kochhar's query for a Latin-English translation)

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> H-ASIA
> November 7, 2011
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> India Orientalis (Prof. Kochhar's query for a Latin-
> English translation)
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> From: Paolo Aranha <Paolo.Aranha@sas.ac.uk>
>
> Further to the discussions of the translation of the 1795
> Copenhagen publication mentioned by Prof. Kochhar:
>
> It seems highly probable that at the end of the 18th
> century "India Orientalis" corresponded precisely to what
> today we would call "South Asia". An interesting case is
> the famous "India Orientalis Christiana" published by the
> Carmelite Fr. Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo, alias Johann
> Philipp Wesdin, in 1794.
>
> This book is freely available online at
> http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6vU-AAAAcAAJ
> [Incidentally, Paulinus is mainly remembered for having
> published the first printed Sankrit grammar, the "Sidharubam",
> also available on Google Books]
> The contents of his book shows that the "India Orientalis"
> Paulinus deals with is precisely the Indian subcontinent.
>
> However, it is true that even at the beginning of the 18th
> century "India Orientalis" could have a more generic meaning.
> An example are the titles of the Carlo Tomaso Maillard de
> Tournon (1668 - 1710), Patriarch of Antioch, crucial in the
> history of the Chinese Rites and Malabar Rites controversies.
> His official titles included also a "Commissarius et
> Visitator Generalis Apostolicus in Sinarum Imperio, aliisque
> Indiarum Orientalium Regnis, cum potestate Legati de Latere".
> In this case we did not find "India Orientalis" in the
> singular, but the plural "Indiæ Orientales" (in the genitive
> case). A deliberately generic formula was used by the Roman
> Curia, engaged in a jurisdictional conflict with the
> Portuguese royal patronage (Padroado) on the eastern missions.
> From a study of Tournon's activities it is clear that his
> "Eastern Indies" included today's India, Indochina and the
> Philippines. We could also argue that the plural "Indiæ
> Orientales" was used at that time as a sort of residual
> category within which all those Asian countries that were
> not part of the Chinese Empire could be categorized.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Paolo Aranha
>
> Paolo Aranha
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> The Warburg Institute
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