BOOK SUMMARY OF INDO-PORTUGUESE DIPLOMACY DURING THE 16TH AND THE 17TH
CENTURIES (1500-1663)
The idea of working on this subject had come up over a decade ago when I
started teaching diplomatic history of Portugal and noticed that there was a
great dearth of works not only on Portuguese diplomatic relations with various
states of Europe but also with Asian empires, especially with the Indian, with
which they had almost five hundred years of political, economical and social
interactions. Strange enough to note that historians and social scientists of
the whole world who have dedicated more than three decades in researching
variable subjects, recently, but