Name : THE PORTUGUESE IN INDIA: Being a History of the Rise and Decline of Their Empire Volume 2nd

Author : FREDERICK CHARLES DANVERS

Book Format : Paperback

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121266413

Language : English

Pages : 601-700 Pages

Publish Year : 2022

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About The Book : - The Portuguese territories in India now consist of Goa, Daman and Diu. The settlement of Goa is due to fine harbor, from by the promontories of Bardes and Salsette. Goa is considered an integral part of Portuguese Empire and with Daman and Diu for administrative purposes. At the time when Portuguese first reach India, the Indo-European commerce was entirely in the hands of Arabs About the time that the Portuguese arrived in India, the Empire of Brahmani Musalman became dismembered into five separate Kingdurn. The political position of Portugal, engrossed as it was by its wars with Spain, rendered the thought of an application for an expensive feet of discovery worse than useless. About The Author : Frederic Charles Danvers (1833–1906), often Frederick, was a British civil servant and writer on engineering. The Superintendent of the India Office Records between 1884 and 1898, he was also a historian and wrote works on India.Danvers published History of the Portuguese in India (2 vols. 1894), an ambitious work. Outside his official duties, Danvers wrote mainly on technical areas. He contributed articles on public works in India to Engineering (1866–75), and a volume "India" (1877) in the series Information for Colonial Engineers published by E. and F. N. Spon. He besides compiled memoranda on Indian coal, coal washing, and artificial fuel (1867–9), and publishing

Country of Origin : India