'Tis a mystery as to why. What could possibly drive an English monarch and their contemporaries to go "Right, enough of this! Down with pants!"?
Characters in the movie include:
- a black ambassador to Scotland (from England)
- a gay/bisexual friend of Mary who is also of color
- a gay/bisexual husband of Mary (Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley)
- an Asian servant of Elizabeth I
- a black attaché to Mary
These are all from memory and are not meant to be a full representation
I know of a grammar on Nahuatl by Horacio Carochi but i cant find it online or otherwise. He also wrote one on Otomi, but it’s lost. Pedro de Cárceres also wrote a grammar on Otomi, “Arte de la Lengua Othomi”, but i cant find it either. I’m looking for grammars on any language from any language family of the area, from nahuatl to mayan to mixtec to zapotec to whatever. Im trying to look at how old world explorers, who werent exactly linguists, interpreted and wrote down languages they learned purely through spoken word.
edit: i have found H.C.s nahuatl grammar, but its 80 bucks on amazon lol. I’m looking for cheaper or online copies
I write novels in my spare time, and I also like reading history. I'm one of the millions of desis who lives in the Bay area, so the history of my area is also very interesting to me.
I want to write a novel involving an Indian exploring California, much before globalization, and I didn't want to write about all the awful native oppression stuff, so it would have to be set before 1769, when the Spanish conquistadors started murdering Native Americans in California.
Now the problem is, how would one get from India to San Francisco back then? It's not like we had nonstop Air India flights.
We know Vasco Da Gama came in 1498. I dug into this, and it turns out after he came and went, there was a lot of trade between the Portuguese and.... The Vijayanagar empire! And this happened right during the rule of Krishnadevaraya! There's even descriptions of the kingdom by two Portuguese travellers in 1520 and 1526!
This was very surprising to me, because I didn't know Mangalore was part of the Vijayanagar empire. Not only that, but Krishnadevaraya was also from Tulu Nadu! Not Andhra, as I had previously assumed!
Also the Portuguese seized control of Mangalore for a short period, and blockaded Arab traders from conducting their business, so the Arabs for angry, and burned down Mangalore in 1695!
Later, in 1762, Hyder Ali kicked out the Portuguese and made it part of the Mysore kingdom. But later, after tipu sultan lost the Anglo-Mysore wars, he had to give Mangalore to the British, and it became part of the British presidency.
On the other side of the world, the Spanish had captured what is now Mexico and called it "New Spain". They would try to go up to what is now American California, but would always fail! They couldn't go by land beyond the Colorado River, and by sea, they would face winds, south-flowing currents, jagged rocks, and fog. Even if they made it, they would have lost half their crew and their ships would need extensive repairs. Given all this, they gave up on California until 1769.
But there was something else going on. Slave trade. Spanish galleon ships would go between Manila and Acapulco, transporting gold and slaves. These slaves were called Chinos. They were from China, Philippines, Africa, India, and wherever else the Portuguese had a port. There were actually several Indian slaves who made it to Mexico. One of them was named Antonio, and he had been trafficked from Malabar.
The British also got interested in this area, and they woul
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I understand that Hindus have a written holy text in the Vedas, which probably makes recognizing them as "people of the book" easier. However most Hindu sects are polytheistic, and even those that are nominally monotheistic seem to recognize other gods, Avatars or the ability of God/gods to physically appear and take many forms. How did some Muslim authorities come to accept Hindus as "People of the Book"?
