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The Portuguese in India

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1.1

Edited by M. N. Pearson

Publication Date 1987

Hardback ISBN-10
0521257131

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521257138

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521257138

Overview

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.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
The Portuguese in India in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

The Portuguese arrival in India

The system in operation

Evaluation of the official system

Indo-Portuguese society

Catholics and Hindus

Decline and stagnation

Towards reintegration

Bibliographical essay

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