Description: This book presents the first-ever English translation of 'The Open Door to Hidden Paganism', one of the earliest and most detailed studies of South Indian Hinduism.
Brief description: Benjamin Leathley is a PhD candidate at the Università di Bologna and Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. His research interests include early modern travel writing and ethnography and its reception in Europe, as well as the conceptualisation of paganism and idolatry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Review Quotes: "This edition and translation will be particularly valuable, and indeed will mark a turning point, because the author has decided to emphasize the early modern intellectual dimensions through an analysis of the anonymous annotator. ... This is a well-focused, original and coherent project that will facilitate the appreciation and study of this fundamental text." - Joan-Pau Rubiés