The Portuguese in India

By: M. N. Pearson, Gordon Johnson (Editor), Christopher Alan Bayly (Editor)

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Paperback | 22 January 2007

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The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr Pearson's volume of their history is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards 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 in fact had a more limited impact on everyday life in India than is sometimes supposed. Their imperial effort was characterized throughout more by reciprocity and interaction than by any unilateral imposition of Portuguese mores and political structures. The book as a whole has a significance well beyond its ostensible subject since it illuminates a whole range of more general historical themes including religious conversion, race relations, the nature of pre-modern society and early colonialism, and the very beginnings of the world economy.

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Regional & National History Asian History Society & Culture Cultural Studies Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

General editorG++s preface
Preface
Rulers of Portugal 1385G++1910
Viceroys and governors of Portuguese India 1505G++1961
Glossary
Maps
Introduction
The Portuguese arrival in India
The system in operation
Evaluation of the official system
Indo-Portuguese society
Catholics and Hindus
Decline and stagnation
Toward reintegration
Bibliographical essay
Index
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