| ID | 181120 |
| Title Proper | Looking out from Goa, 1648 |
| Other Title Information | Perspectives on a crisis of the Estado da Índia |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sanjay Subrahmanyam ; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In 1648, the Portuguese Estado da Índia found itself at a crossroads. After nearly five decades of attacks by a variety of adversaries—the Dutch East India Company, the Safavids, the Mughals, the Tokugawa shoguns, and the rulers of Kandy, among others—and in the context of the ‘Restoration’ of the Braganza dynasty in Portugal in 1640 and the separation of Portugal from Spain, a brief respite was offered. This article looks at how the situation was diagnosed by various contemporary authors, both outsiders and consummate insiders, such as the viceroy Dom Filipe de Mascarenhas. It suggests that the heavy constraints placed on the state by external forces as well as by forces of internal dissension compelled it to reinvent itself, a process that eventually began in the 1660s. However, this reinvention was not about simply imitating its great rival, the Dutch East India Company. |
| `In' analytical Note | Modern Asian Studies Vol. 55, No.6; Nov 2021: p.1755 - 1794 |
| Journal Source | Modern Asian Studies 2021-12 55, 6 |
| Key Words | Goa, 1648 ; Estado da Índia |