INES G. ZUPANOV - Ines G. Županov

Acknowledgements
T
his book has been written on three continents. During my stay
at Berkeley, California, many friends and colleagues provided
crucial support and encouragement. Ichak Adizes, Daniel Brownstein,
Olga Grlié, Vanessa Miller, Rastko Mocnik, Zoja Skuiiek, Shankar
Subramaniam and Veljko Vujacié helped me survive and enjoy
post-graduate student life. So did my teachers, advisors, friends and
guardians—Eugene Irschick, Frances and Randolph Starn, Stephen
Greenblatt, Kausalya and George Hart and Thomas Metcalf.
In India, the late K. Paramasivam and Prof. S. Arokianathan helped
me with Tamil translations while the Social Science Research Council
and Mellon Doctoral Research Fellowship funded my research from
1989 to 1991.1 also thank the staff of the Shembaganur Archives for
their unconditional help, as well as Father S. Rajamanickam for sharing
his long experience in the field of Nobili studies and for his valuable
advice during my visit to the Loyola College in Madras, in 1989.
In Rome and London, Vesna Domany-Hardy and Malcolm Hardy
provided important logistic and intellectual support. I also remember
with gratitude and admiration the archivists of the Archivum
Romanum Societatis Iesu and the librarians of the Jesuit library in
Rome. Fathers Wiktor Gramatowsky, Thomas Reddy, Mario Zanardi
and others generously shared their time and my anxieties at every
step of my archival research. In the final stages of manuscript preparation
I profited from 'missions' funded by the École française de
Rome and Catherine Brice.
I am equally grateful to Peter Robb and Stuart Blackburn for their
hospitality at SOAS, in London, during my post-doctoral studies
funded by the European Science Foundation (1996-98).
My friends and colleagues in Paris and, especially, Catherine
Clémentin-Ojha, Marc Gaborieau and Roland Lardinois, members
of the Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (at École des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and members of the Groupe de