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Rulers of India: Albuquerque

Chapter 15: PORTUGAL
By H. Morse Stephens
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A concise biography examines Afonso de Albuquerque's ancestry, early career, military campaigns, and administrative policies during Portuguese rule in sixteenth-century India, drawing chiefly on his Commentaries and surviving letters. The author supplements narrative with a survey of primary chronicles, translations, and later historians, assessing the authority and gaps of the documentary record. Prefatory and bibliographical discussion traces editions and collections of official dispatches, notes discrepancies among sources, and offers readers guidance for further research, combining political and biographical narrative with critical commentary on the available evidence.

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Y
USAF
A
DIL
S
HÁH
, King of Bijápur, his history,
74
,
75
:

    fondness for Goa,
75
:

    retakes Goa,
79
:

    chivalry,
81
,
82
:

    leaves Goa on Albuquerque's departure from the harbour,
82
,
85
:

    death,
90
.


Y
USAF
G
URGI
, Málik, Muhammadan governor of Goa, his cruelty,
75
:

    his flight from Goa,
76
.



Z
AMORIN
of Calicut, receives Vasco da Gama,
24
:

    meaning of the word,
25n
:

    intrigues of Moplas with, against the Portuguese,
25
:

    attacked by Cabral,
27
, and Da Gama,
29
:

    besieges Cochin and is repulsed,
30
:

    defeated on land and sea by Pacheco,
31
,
32
:

    fleet defeated by L. de Almeida,
35
,
36
:

    palace burnt,
69
:

    sues for peace,
91
:

    poisoned,
131
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THE END.




By the same Author

PORTUGAL

(VOL. XXVIII OF 'THE STORY OF THE NATIONS').

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SOME PRESS NOTICES.

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THE PRINCIPAL SPEECHES OF THE STATESMEN AND ORATORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1795).

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