This volume explores the changing meanings that maritime India acquired during the early modern period owing to the frequent efforts of the Mughals and the Port
In 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
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible,
This volume discusses the various socio-economic and political processes that evolved over centuries in the vast coastal fringes of India and out of the circuit
This volume looks into the ways Indian Ocean routes shaped the culture and contours of early modern India. IT shows how these and other historical processes saw