02326nam a22002897a 4500 54872 54872 20190826161823.0 190826b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780199486748 ;International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :114211 :30/07/2019 623.890 FLO Flores, Jorge Unwanted Neighbours : the Mughals, the Portuguese, and their frontier zones / Jorge Flores New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018. xxii, 301 pages : 1 map (black and white) ; 23 cm 895 Note 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 n 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.- Engineering Military & nautical engineering Navigation -- India -- Gujarat -- History. Mogul Empire. Navigation. India -- Mogul Empire. Commerce. Flores, Jorge BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-08-26 International Book Distributors 895.00 0 623.890 FLO 26680 2019-08-26 00:00:00 2019-08-26 BOOK