The Mughals, the Portuguese, and the Indian Ocean

The Mughals, the Portuguese, and the Indian Ocean
Author: Pius Malekandathil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Harbors
ISBN: 9789380607337

This volume explores the changing meanings that maritime India acquired during the early modern period owing to the frequent efforts of the Mughals and the Portuguese from two different fronts to control its vast resourceful enclaves and profit-yielding neighbourhoods.

Unwanted Neighbours

Unwanted Neighbours
Author: Jorge Flores
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199093687

In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, had never been to the ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several Portuguese merchants in Khambayat rushed to Akbar’s presence. This encounter marked the beginning of a long, complex, and unequal relationship between a continental Muslim empire that was expanding into south India, often looking back to Central Asia, and a European Christian maritime empire whose rulers considered themselves ‘kings of the sea’. By the middle of the seventeenth century, these two empires faced each other across thousands of kilometres from Sind to Bijapur, with a supplementary eastern arm in faraway Bengal. Focusing on borderland management, imperial projects, and cross-cultural circulation, this volume delves into the ways in which, between c. 1570 and c. 1640, the Portuguese understood and dealt with their undesirably close neighbours—the Mughals.

The Portuguese in India

The Portuguese in India
Author: M. N. Pearson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521028509

This is a clear account, written from an Indian point of view, of Portuguese activities in India.

Assembling the Tropics

Assembling the Tropics
Author: Hugh Cagle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107196639

This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.

The Portuguese in India

The Portuguese in India
Author: Michael Naylor Pearson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1987
Genre: Goa, Daman and Diu (India)
ISBN: 9780521055956

An account of the activities of the Portuguese in India and the Indian Ocean from the 16th century onwards, written squarely from an Indian point of view. The author lays particular stress on social, economic and religious interaction between Portuguese and Indians.

Maritime India

Maritime India
Author: Pius Malekandathil
Publisher: Primus Books
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 9380607016

This volume discusses the various socio-economic and political processes that evolved over centuries in the vast coastal fringes of India and out of the circuits of the Indian Ocean, ultimately giving it the distinctive consciousness and identity of Maritime India. The book comments on a wide range of issues, including the nature of maritime trade of the Sassanids with India; the impact of maritime trade on the political processes of Goa; the impact of Portuguese commercial expansion on the traditional Muslim merchants of Kerala and the role of private traders in the structure and the functioning of Estado da India.

The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India

The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India
Author: Pius Malekandathil
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351997459

This volume looks into the ways Indian Ocean routes shaped the culture and contours of early modern India. IT shows how these and other historical processes saw India rebuilt and reshaped during late medieval times after a long age of relative ‘stagnation’, ‘isolation’ and ‘backwardness’. The various papers deal with such themes including interconnectedness between Africa and India, trade and urbanity in Golconda, the changing meanings of urbanization in Bengal, commercial and cultural contact between Aceh and India, changing techniques of warfare, representation of early modern rulers of India in contemporary European paintings, the impact of the Indian Ocean on the foreign policies of the Mughals, the meanings of piracy, labour process in the textile sector, Indo-Ottoman trade, Maratha-French relations, Bible translations and religious polemics, weapon making and the uses of elephants. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern Indian history in general and those working on aspects of connected histories in particular.