Portuguese presence in India during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries edited by Yogesh Sharma, José Leal Ferreira

Introduction / Yogesh Sharma Pt. 1. Ports of call, trade, urbanization and religion. Economic change, institutional development and urbanization in San Thome, 1507 -1676 / S. Jeyaseela Stephen. Agrarian production and procurement strategies in Kerala under the Portuguese, 1500-1663 / Pius Malekandathil. Big generals in little kingdoms : the Portuguese settlements of Chittagong and Sandwip, 1530-1640 / Radhika Chadha. Responses to the Portuguese missionary methods in India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Joy L. Pachuau. The Jesuit mission along the Fisheries Coast in the late sixteenth century / Mahesh Gopalan. The misericórdia and the bishopric in Peninsular India during the phase of retreat, c. 1600-1641 / Smarika Nawani. Changing destinies, evolving identities : the Indo-Portuguese community at Madras in the seventeenth century / Yogesh Sharma Pt. 2. Text and context. Introduction and translation / José Leal Ferreira and Rashmi. Letter of Azu Naique to the King (Petition by an Indian to the Portuguese King), Bassein, 18 Dec. 1549. Representation by mutinous sailors to the Captain Major of the Fleet. Relatorio da Pimenta, a report by Francisco da Costa, 1605