By the sixteenth century, the Portuguese had firmly entrenched in western India, particularly the southern region. In the process, they had to deal with different regimes-both substantial and insignificant-thereby finding ...

Spectacular outbreaks against the Portuguese receive regular scholarly attention. Resistance qualifies as an act against the colonial state, and in doing so, the dominant castes have succeeded in misrecognizing their social ...

What Sewell called the 'Forgotten Empire' once unified the larger part of South India, governing it from Vijayanagara for over 200 years. Once modern methods of research took root, the effort began to reconstruct its ...

This paper analyses only the political interaction between the Portuguese in Goa and the major political powers of Karna­taka, comprehensively, in a historical perspective.