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Book Fortress Portugal in India

Download or read book Fortress Portugal in India written by Henry Scholberg and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Portuguese Navigation in India  1497 1600

Download or read book History of the Portuguese Navigation in India 1497 1600 written by K. M. Mathew and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Portuguese in India

Download or read book The Portuguese in India written by Frederick Charles Danvers and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1988 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being A History Of The Rise And Decline Of Their Eastern Empire Vol. I: From 1481 To 1571; Vol. Ii: From 1571 To 1894.

Book Bombay in the Days of Queen Anne

Download or read book Bombay in the Days of Queen Anne written by John Burnell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations: 1 Map Description: Burnell's description of Bombay takes the form of two letters to his father. The first one is dated 12 May, 1710 and second one is undated. Bombay that Burnell knew had much deteriorated from the dissensions between the Old and New East India Companies. The union had taken place in 1709 and its beneficial effect can scarcely have been felt in Bombay in the following year 1710 when Burnell served there. Burnell in this narrative gives an account of the government then; account of the troops in Bombay; account of the Dongrey Fort which he commanded; plan to convert Bombay from seven islands to one; description of castles and various outlying forts. Burnell is accurate also in his observance of the daily life of Bombay; of the methods of fisherman in the harbour; of the ways in which the land was prepared in the hot weather and early monsoons for rice; and of the salt works along the eastern shore of Island where he noted the technicalities of the whole process, revealing him as a good exponent of popular sciences. Part II narrates his personal adventures in Bengal, where he arrived in November 1712, after being cashiered at Madras. Though incomplete, it has several features of value, especially his description of Danish and Dutch settlements and of Hugli, with its suburbs of Bandel. John Burnell's narratives are simple in style and his presentation of facts and comments are straightforward, giving a wealth of details along with accurate measurements and correct topographical descriptions.

Book That s India

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Scholberg
  • Publisher : Bibliophile South Asia
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9788185002309
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book That s India written by Henry Scholberg and published by Bibliophile South Asia. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Scholberg Is A Third World Citizen. He Was Born In And Grew Up In Country Other Than That Of His Nationality-India. The Present Work Is Divided In Three Parts-The Early Years-The Library Years And That`S Write. At One Place In The Book, The Author Says Well, Being A Returned Librarian Is Not All That Bad.

Book Portuguese Sea Forts

Download or read book Portuguese Sea Forts written by Amita Kanekar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portuguese presence on the Arabian Sea coast of the Deccan dates from the beginning of the 16th century, with the establishment of Goa as the capital of a rapidly expanding maritime enterprise that eventually encompassed much of Asia. In order to protect the ships carrying their goods, merchants, troops and missionaries to India, the Portuguese constructed a string of seaside strongholds in and around Goa, and further up the coast of what is now Maharashtra. 00This guidebook is the first to showcase the vestiges of the Portuguese sea forts of the Deccan, drawing attention to their surviving battlemented ramparts and angular bastions, watchtowers and lighthouses, chapels and churches. While some forts have recently been restored, such as Reis Magos and Tiracol in Goa, others are now dilapidated and overgrown. 00This guidebook contains descriptions of all the major Portuguese sea forts of the region, illustrated with newly commissioned photographs and site maps.

Book Spice Islands Forts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon Pratt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-17
  • ISBN : 9781922440945
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Spice Islands Forts written by Simon Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priceless nutmeg and cloves were for millennia only found on a scattering of active volcanos rearing up from equatorial seas at the far edge of the world; the Spice Islands of today's Indonesia.The Portuguese were the first Europeans to put them on the world map in 1512. To warn off the Spanish, they soon built the first Spice Islands fort. The profits were immense for whoever controlled these Spiceries, and a century of conflict and fort building followed as local sultanates, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch and the English all fought for supremacy. The Spice Islands hold one of the greatest concentrations of colonial forts anywhere in the world.Now the guns are silent, the galleons long sailed away. Many forts are ruined or lost forever. But across the spectacular islands, still thick with the scent of spices, many old ramparts and bastions remain as testament to an historic era of conflict.Spice Islands Forts tells the story of these forgotten colonial outposts for the first time, and includes over 200 stunning photographs, historic maps and contemporary artwork, as well as a catalogue and useful tips for adventurous travellers.

Book The Voyages and Adventures of Vasco Da Gama

Download or read book The Voyages and Adventures of Vasco Da Gama written by George Makepeace Towle and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shipbuilding  Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre modern India

Download or read book Shipbuilding Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre modern India written by K.S. Mathew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, especially coastal India, has a long history of shipbuilding and navigation dating back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Indian shipwrights and the labour force associated with various aspects of shipbuilding excelled in naval architecture. Their native wisdom was adopted by the Europeans engaged in shipbuilding in coastal India. Similarly some of the techniques of navigation followed by Indians were emulated by the European mariners. A comprehensive peep into the science of naval architecture and navigation is attempted in this work making a comparative study of Indian and Portuguese architecture and navigation. The volume discusses the importance of the timber grown in the monsoon-fed forests of the Malabar coast and its appreciation by the Portuguese shipwrights and theoreticians of naval architecture. The work shows that increase of the tonnage of ocean-going vessels and the appearance of hostile mariners from other quarters of Western Europe compelled the Portuguese to adopt enhanced technology in naval architecture and navigation. The fact that the use of canons for defence against intruders made the Portuguese vessels stronger than the Indian ships which, for centuries, were accustomed to considerably peaceful navigation is also brought out in this much anticipated volume.

Book The Formation of the Portuguese Colonial Empire

Download or read book The Formation of the Portuguese Colonial Empire written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains historical background for the British delegates to the Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920.

Book A History of West Central Africa to 1850

Download or read book A History of West Central Africa to 1850 written by John K. Thornton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.

Book The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India

Download or read book The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India written by Pius Malekandathil and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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’. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Book The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque  Second Viceroy of India

Download or read book The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque Second Viceroy of India written by WalterdeGray Birch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I: This is translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Volume II: This is translated from Part ii of the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Volume III: Part iii of the 1774 edition. With descriptions of Malacca and Goa translated from Pedro Barretto de Resende's Livro do Estado da India Oriental. The supplementary material consists of the 1880 annual report. Volume IV: Part iv of the 1774 edition. With Portuguese descriptions of places and fortresses in Portuguese India, and a pedigree of Albuquerque from British Library MSS. With an index to all four volumes. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1875,1877, 1880 and 1884.

Book Fort Cochin in Kerala  1750 1830

Download or read book Fort Cochin in Kerala 1750 1830 written by Anjana Singh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the early modern fortress town of Cochin in India, based on the rarely used VOC archival deposits in the Tamilnadu State Archives in Chennai (Madras), provides an intimate portrait of a Dutch urban community of East India Company servants and their dependents living within the larger social environment of the Malabar coast. It shows how between 1750 and 1830 the population of this Dutch settlement had adapted itself to the fundamental political and economic changes that occurred as a result of local state formation processes, the demise of the Dutch East India Company, and the change of regime that occurred when English administration was imposed on Fort Cochin in 1795.

Book The Ottoman Age of Exploration

Download or read book The Ottoman Age of Exploration written by Giancarlo Casale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes of maritime Asia. The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical account of this century-long struggle for global dominance, a struggle that raged from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of Malacca, and from the interior of Africa to the steppes of Central Asia. Based on extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the Ottoman state during the sixteenth century. It does so through a dramatic recounting of the lives of sultans and viziers, spies, corsairs, soldiers-of-fortune, and women from the imperial harem. Challenging traditional narratives of Western dominance, it argues that the Ottomans were not only active participants in the Age of Exploration, but ultimately bested the Portuguese in the game of global politics by using sea power, dynastic prestige, and commercial savoir faire to create their own imperial dominion throughout the Indian Ocean.

Book The Black Legend of Portuguese India

Download or read book The Black Legend of Portuguese India written by George Davison Winius and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: