Unwanted Neighbours
The Mughals, the Portuguese, and Their Frontier Zones
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9780199486748
Publication date:
19/06/2018
Hardback
328 pages
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ISBN:
9780199486748
Publication date:
19/06/2018
Hardback
328 pages
Jorge Flores
In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. 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’. Focusing on borderland management, imperial projects, and cross-cultural circulation, this volume delves into the ways in which the Portuguese understood and dealt with the Mughals.
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Jorge Flores
Description
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.
About the Author
Jorge Flores is professor of early modern global history at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Jorge Flores
Table of contents
Note to the Reader
Prologue
List of Abbreviations
1. Un-neighbourly Empires
2. Chessboard Politics between Central Asia and the Arabian Sea
3. Gujarat: Borderland Experiments I
4. Gujarat: Borderland Experiments II
5. The Deccan Wall
6. Bengal, an Eastern ‘Far West’
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Jorge Flores
Jorge Flores
Description
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.
About the Author
Jorge Flores is professor of early modern global history at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Table of contents
Note to the Reader
Prologue
List of Abbreviations
1. Un-neighbourly Empires
2. Chessboard Politics between Central Asia and the Arabian Sea
3. Gujarat: Borderland Experiments I
4. Gujarat: Borderland Experiments II
5. The Deccan Wall
6. Bengal, an Eastern ‘Far West’
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
