Abstract: By analysing a text written in 1878 on Portuguese orientalism in India throughout the 16th and 17th centuries and its author, José Gerson da Cunha, this article questions notions of centre and periphery, cosmopolitism, and marginality in relation to the places of knowledge production and their agents. Through the confrontation of Gerson da Cunha’s historiographical references and its reflexivity, and a text written on the same subject by the Portuguese scholar Sousa Viterbo, the article explores: how did the places from where they were writi...
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