Empires of LoveThrough literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuriesepic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislationCarmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and perversion, she demonstrates, it was also a space where