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THE SUCCESSORS
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SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM
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The Successors ofVasco da Gama
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The Successors of Vasco da Gama
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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CONTENTS
The Authors 2
Editors Preface 4
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Introduction: The Portuguese and Early
Modern Asia 5
Maria Augusta Lima Cruz
Notes on Portuguese Relations with
Vijayanagara, 1500-1565 13
Timothy Coates
State-Spo~sored Female Colo11ization in the
Estado da India 40
Jorge Manuel Flores
The Straits of Ceylon, 1524-1539: The
Portuguese-Mappilla Struggle over a
Strategic Area 57
Paulo Jorge Sousa Pinto
Purse and Sword: D. Henrique Bendahara and
Portuguese Melaka in the late 16th Century 75
Jose Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim
From Setubal to the Sublime Porte: The
Wanderings ofJ acome de Olivares, New Christian
and Merchant of Cochin (1540-1571) 94
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Ines G. Zupanov
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The Prophetic and the Miraculous in Portuguese
Asia: A Hagiographical View of Colonial Culture 135
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
The Viceroy as Assassin: The Portuguese, the
Mughals and Deccan Politics, c. 1600 162
Nikica Talan
A Note on Croatia and the Portuguese Indies 204
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THE AUTHORS
TIMOTHY COATES is Assistant Professor of History at the College of
Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. His doctoral dissertation,
entitled, "Orphans and Exiles: Forced and State-Sponsored Colo
nization in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1720," was completed at
the University of Minnesota, in 1993. He is the author of several
articles on the Portuguese in Asia, and elsewhere.
JORGE MANUEL FLoRFS is a member of the Portuguese National
Commission for the Commemoration of the Discoveries (Lisbon),
and teaches at the Universidade Lusfada. He is the author of a
number of papers, and will shortly publish his Mestrado disserta
tion from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, entitled "Os Portugue
ses e o Mar de Ceilao, 1498:...1543: Trato, Diplomacia e Guerra"
(1991).
MARIA AUGUSTA LIMA CRUZ is Associate Professor at the Departa
mento de Estudos Portugueses, at the Universidade Nova de
Lisboa. She is the author of a large number of papers, and of
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Diogo do Couto ea Dicada da Asia, 2 Vols. (Lisbon: Imprensa
Nacional, 1993-94). She is currently heading a project to re-edit
the r~maining volumes of the chronicle of Diogo do Couto.
PAULO JORGE SousA PINTO is a Lisbon-based historian, and author
of a Mestrado thesis from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, enti
tled "Portugueses e Malaios: Malaca e os Sultanatos de Johor e
Achem (1575-1619)" (1994).
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM is Directeur d'etudes at Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of a number of
works, including The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700 (Lon
don, 1993), and The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (Cam
bridge, 1996).
NIKJCA TAI.AN is at the Faculty of Philosophy, Odsjek za romanis
tiku, Zagreb, Croatia.
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Jost RODRIGUES DA SILVA TAVIM is a researcher at the Cen
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tro de utudos Africanos e Asiaticos, Instituto de Investiga~ao
Cientffica e Tropical, Lisbon. He is the author of a number of arti
cles, and of "Os judeus na Expansao Portuguesa em Marrocos
durante o seculo XVI: Origens e actividades duma comunidade,"
Mestrado dissertation, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2 Vols.
( 1991 ).
INES G. 2UPANOV, currently resident in Paris, is the author of sever
al papers on the Catholic missions in southern India in the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries. She completed her Ph.D. from
the University of California at Berkeley in 1991; the dissertation is
entitled: "Acting and Writing Culture: The Jesuit Experiments in
17th-Century South India."
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EDITOR'S PREFACE
The present volume first appeared as a special issue of the journal
Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, Vol. II, 1995, entitled "The Portu
guese and the Pacific II". I am particularly grateful to the editor of
the journal, Joao Camilo dos Santos, and to the members of its
editorial board for their meticulous help in preparing the papers for
publication, as also for their prompt and positive response to the
idea that the journal be re-edited as a book. A number of Portuguese
institutions provided subventions for the original publication, which
should be duly acknowledged here. These include the Funda~ao
Calouste Gulbenkian, the Commissao Nacional para as Comem
ora~oes dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, the Instituto Camoes and
the Funda~ao Oriente. I would also like to thank my colleague and
friend Kenneth McPherson for his help in the initial stages of the
project, and for mediating with Santa Barbara.
Paris
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INTRODUCTION: THE PORTUGUESE
AND EARLY MODERN AsIA
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
For well over a quarter-century, from the end of the Second World
War, the historiography on Portuguese Asia was dominated by the
work of two historians with contrasting, and in some respects,
complementary, approaches: Charles Ralph Boxer and Vitorino
Magalhaes Godinho. While Godinho, in his voluminous works in
French and Portuguese (a nd also, to a far more limited extent, in
English}, concentrated on serial history, and an exploration of the
grand conjonctures in the style of the Annales school ( to which he
was attached during his French exile), Boxer's equally voluminous
production has been aimed primarily at questions of political and
social history within a characteristically English, empiricist, tradi
tion. By the mid-l 970s, the most important of the works of these
two authors had been written, although the second and definitive
edition of Godinho's Os Descobrimentos e a Economia Mundial (4
vols.) was published only in the early 1980s. Furthermore, these
two authors both attacked, albeit each in his own fashion, the
favoured myths concerning Portuguese expansion propagated by
the &tado Novo in Portugal; and it is clear that all historians of Por
tuguese Asia stand in good measure in their debt if for this reason
alone.
Neither scholar established a veritable "school" where the
study of Portuguese Asia was concerned. In the case of Boxer, this
may be attributed to the rather personal character of his style and
method, of which only pale imitations could be produced by
others; indeed, I would argue that if Boxer had a successful "spiri
tual" heir in the case of maritime Asia, it was above all the Indian
maritime historian Ashin Das Gupta, who studied in Cambridge
and never was Boxer's student. In the case of Godinho, for one or
the other reason, his disciples focused on the history of Portugal
itself, rather than on the overseas empire. In the next generation,
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