BOOK SUMMARY OF PORTUGUESE TRADE AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES ON THE WESTERN
COAST OF INDIA (1600-1663)
This book was partially a response to the plea "why doesn't someone (an
Indian?) learn Portuguese and work in the Goa Archives?", and partially a
curious research attitude. The record of Indo-Portuguese trade gives us both
hindsight and foresight of history, for it was the Portuguese explorers and
businessmen who inaugurated western colonialism in India. The present study is a
detailed and scholarly work based on original documents available in Portugal,
Spain, England and in India.
This book examines, in detail, the Portuguese relations with the Indian states
along