Tipu Sultan’s Ambassadors at Saint-Cloud: Indomania and Anglophobia in Pre-Revolutionary Paris

Martin, Meredith

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“…En el fragor de la lucha contra los británicos, Haidar recibió a emisarios franceses y suscribió pactos con ellos desde la década de 1760 (wilks, 2013 [1820]: 379); en 1779 -dos años después del regreso de la legación española a Manila-dio un paso más allá con el envío de embajadas a Francia y al Imperio Otomano (yAzDAni, 2017: 290). Sendas misiones fueron interceptadas por los británicos, pero la tentativa de contactar directamente con París y Estambul fue eventualmente culminada diez años más tarde por Tipu Sultan (sil, 2005: 68-69;mArtin, 2014), cuyos embajadores recogieron en su correspondencia el carácter revolucionario de esta original línea de actuación en materia de diplomacia, orientada a regiones hasta la fecha poco o nada frecuentadas por agentes del sur del subcontinente (husAin, 2001: 50-51).…”

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Diplomacia indirecta y diálogo asimétrico en el Indo-Pacífico: la embajada Manila-Mysore (1776-1777) en su contexto

Herrero García

2024

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La embajada Manila-Mysore de 1776-1777, pese al interés que reviste para aproximarnos a las conexiones indo-pacíficas y a la diplomacia hispanofilipina a las puertas de la «Revolución euroasiática», sigue rodeada de numerosos interrogantes que pretendemos despejar a través de un nuevo modelo explicativo, fundamentado en la noción de diplomacia indirecta y los enfoques de la Historia Global. Nuestras conclusiones arrojan luz sobre ámbitos historiográficos deficitarios, pues demuestran la importancia de los precedentes de la misión, enfatizan la influencia de las realidades asiáticas en las decisiones políticas hispanas e identifican ventajas y desventajas de una fórmula diplomática fruto de un contexto singular.

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Diplomacia indirecta y diálogo asimétrico en el Indo-Pacífico: la embajada Manila-Mysore (1776-1777) en su contexto

Herrero García

2024

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“…12 Envoys from Indian states had also been appearing since the late eighteenth century, usually travelling to London, although Versailles welcomed three ambassadors from Mysore in 1788. 13 They were often undermined by their ambivalent status, however, as the lands they represented were fast becoming client states of the East India Company. Costly enterprises, moreover, the longest stayed in Britain for 15 years, but they never led to permanent missions.…”

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Opening Legations: Japan’s First Resident Minister and the Diplomatic Corps in Europe

Cobbing

2017

Diplomacy & Statecraft

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This analysis shows how Japanese legations, first established in Europe during the 1870s, were not just symbolic gestures but played a key role in the Meiji government's quest for international recognition. The concept of resident ambassador was unfamiliar beyond the European world, so the transition from sending visiting envoys to establishing permanent missions was a pivotal stage. Here a comparative framework gauges the importance of Japan's new strategy within the context of similar experiments by states such as the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and subsequently China and Siam. The case of Sameshima Naonobu, Japan's first resident minister in Europe, highlights the cultural barriers the Japanese faced. Assisted by Frederick Marshall, an Englishman at the Japanese Legation in Paris, Sameshima's research on the mysteries encoded in this particular social universe offers some insight on the nature of the diplomatic corps in Europe.During the 1870s, the most striking addition to the diplomatic corps in Europe was the arrival of the Japanese resident minister. At the start of the decade there was no such post, but soon permanent missions had opened in several capitals, all housing accredited diplomats from

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Tipu and the Turks: An Islamicate Embassy in the Age of British Expansion

Choudhury

2023

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In 1786, several hundred subjects of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782–99), ruler of the kingdom of Mysore in southern India, travelled to the Ottoman Empire on a diplomatic mission. This essay revisits the embassy's travels, and travails, across Eurasia and the Indian Ocean by drawing attention to a rich cache of administrative documents. I suggest that this collection, hitherto unexamined, can illuminate some significant aspects of diplomatic conduct and procedure in Islamicate Eurasia, yet underexplored. The essay accordingly highlights such overlooked themes as the bureaucratic complexities that were involved in long-distance ambassadorial tours, the role ceremonials played in elite intercourse, and the myriad ways in which material culture mediated interstate exchanges. While its significance lies also in how it decentres a dominant scholarly focus on encounters between Europe and its others, scrutiny of this collection, I additionally argue, can enhance historical understanding of how reciprocal relations between Islamicate polities transformed due to growing European influence. As contemporary configurations of imperial power changed in both South Asia and the Middle East, the Mysore-Ottoman embassy hence at once reflected and anticipated the advent of European—and more specifically, British—hegemony in non-European diplomatic contexts.

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Tipu Sultan’s Ambassadors at Saint-Cloud: Indomania and Anglophobia in Pre-Revolutionary Paris

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Diplomacia indirecta y diálogo asimétrico en el Indo-Pacífico: la embajada Manila-Mysore (1776-1777) en su contexto

Diplomacia indirecta y diálogo asimétrico en el Indo-Pacífico: la embajada Manila-Mysore (1776-1777) en su contexto

Opening Legations: Japan’s First Resident Minister and the Diplomatic Corps in Europe

Tipu and the Turks: An Islamicate Embassy in the Age of British Expansion

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