THE PORTUGUESE IN INDIA: Being a History of the Rise and Decline of Their Eastern Empire Volume 1st

Language: English. 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 Statistical Papers relating to India (parliamentary paper, 1869), Coal Economy (1872), and A Century of Famines, 1770–1870 (1877). He read papers before the Society of Arts on Agriculture in India (1878), Famines in India (1886), and The India Office Records (1889). The first and third of these papers gained the Society's silver medal. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1880, subsequently served on its council, and read papers before it on Agriculture in Essex (1897) and A Review of Indian Statistics (1901). He was elected a member of the Society of Arts in 1890. The Title 'THE PORTUGUESE IN INDIA: Being a History of the Rise and Decline of Their Eastern Empire written/authored/edited by FREDERICK CHARLES DANVERS', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121266420 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 647 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol: Volume 1st Volume 1st 647.…