02276nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801270007608200160020310000190021924500980023826000580033630000580039436500080045250503120046052010440077265000160181665000370183265000470186965000180191665000160193465000270195065000140197770000190199120190826161823.0190826b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780199486748  a;International Book Distributorsb:Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhic:114211d:30/07/2019   a623.890 FLO  aFlores, Jorge   aUnwanted Neighbours b: the Mughals, the Portuguese, and their frontier zonesc/ Jorge Flores  aNew Delhi, Indiab : Oxford University Press, c2018.  axxii, 301 pages b: 1 map (black and white)c ; 23 cm  b895  aNote to the Reader PrologueList 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  an 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.-  aEngineering  a Military & nautical engineering  aNavigation -- India -- Gujarat -- History.  aMogul Empire.  aNavigation.  aIndia -- Mogul Empire.  aCommerce.  aFlores, Jorge