The Portuguese in India
The Portuguese in India

Author: M. N. Pearson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-03-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781139053457

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The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr. Pearson's volume of the History is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards that is written squarely from an Indian point of view. Laying particular stress on social, economic, and religious interaction between Portuguese and Indians, the author argues that the Portuguese had a more limited impact on everyday life in India than is sometimes supposed. Their imperial effort was characterized more by reciprocity and interaction than by an unilateral imposition of Portuguese mores and political structures.

Goa and Portugal
Goa and Portugal

Author: Charles J. Borges

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9788170228677

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Papers presented at the 2nd Conference on "Goa and Portugal: History and Development" held in Goa during Sept. 6-9, 1999.

The Portuguese in Malabar
The Portuguese in Malabar

Author: Charles Dias

Publisher: Manohar Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788173049149

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The 500-year-old community of Portuguese descendants in Malabar, now called Kerala, is composed of an interesting group of people whose history goes back to the beginnings of European interaction with northern India. This study concentrates on the Portuguese influence from the end of the 15th century to present times, exploring their commercial and religious interventions in Malabar and the resultant political polarization and social changes. In 1453, Constantinople was blockaded by Ottoman Turks, which prevented Europeans from trading with Asian countries and made it necessary for Europeans to find a new sea-route to India. Finally, two Portuguese navigators, Vasco da Gama, followed by Pedro Alvares Cabral, reached Calicut in 1498 and 1500, respectively, leading to the creation of the so-called Portuguese State of India in 1505. The policy of politics through marriages was introduced by Afonso de Albuquerque, who married Portuguese soldiers with Indian women, which resulted in a social group faithful to Portuguese trade centers; this mixed race, or mestices, eventually formed the Luso-Indian community in Malabar.

Indo-Portuguese History
Indo-Portuguese History

Author: John Correia-Afonso

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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Selected papers presented at the International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History, held in Goa, November 1978, organized by the Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture.

Palaces of Goa
Palaces of Goa

Author: Helder Carita

Publisher: Robert Hale

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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By studying a period of nearly four centuries and examining houses over the entire region of Goa, this lavishly illustrated book, with architectural drawings, attempts to define the specific identity of Indo-Portuguese architecture. It is possible to observe, particularly during the 17th and 18th centuries, a progressive cross-influencing of Indian and Portuguese aesthetic tastes: the resulting mixture has produced a fascinating style of architecture, which this text has captured with more than 200 colour photographs.

The Portuguese in the East
The Portuguese in the East

Author: Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2017-06-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781784539160

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Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late fifteenth century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese. Undertaken at the height of Portugal's maritime influence, it helped to create an oceanic state ranging from the Cape of Good Hope to China. While Portugal's direct political influence in Asia was comparatively short-lived, its linguistic influence remains. Here Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya charts the influences of the Portuguese in more than 50 Asian tongues, illustrating the extent of Lusitanian links. Luso-Asian influence became engrained in eastern cultures in more subtle ways than other the European empires which followed, such as the Portuguese oral traditions in folk literature, now embedded in postcolonial Asian music and song. These Portuguese cultural legacies are a lasting reminder of an unexpected outcome of seaborne commerce.