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The ten essays written for this book by an international team of experts highlight different facets of this relationship and are illustrated by a wealth of spectacular Mughal miniatures, European paintings and other contemporary objects.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49537590264081,"sku":"GOR008111536","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50447808594193,"sku":"CIN1857596935VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52815727919377,"sku":"CIN1857596935G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1857596935.jpg?v=1750931307"},{"product_id":"empire-of-contingency-book-jorge-flores-9781512826449","title":"Empire of Contingency","description":"Explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India    Empire of Contingency explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India—a period during which Portuguese imperial ambitions were struggling for survival, while the Mughal empire was at the height of its power and influence. Jorge Flores uncovers the tenuous but ingenious apparatuses of intelligence through which the Estado da Índia (the “State of the Indies,” the name given to the Portuguese political administrative unit in the region between the Cape of Good Hope and East Asia) endeavored to survive in a vast Indo-Persian world shaped by the influence and power of the Mughal empire.  Detailing the complex relations that the officials of the Portuguese empire, particularly in Goa, the capital of the Estado da Índia, maintained with the Mughal empire as well as the sultanates of Ahmadnagar and Bijapur in the Deccan region—through information gathering, record-keeping, interpreting, and diplomatic correspondence—the book demonstrates how the Portuguese territories along the western coast of India were substantially incorporated into the vast Persianate cultural sphere spanning from Iran to Southeast Asia. The process of empire-building on the fringes of the Persianate world and the prolonged interaction with the Mughal empire, Ahmadnagar, and Bijapur, Flores argues, led to the irregular, non-linear, and incomplete assimilation of the Portuguese empire into Persianate India.  Overturning teleological narratives that portray the workings of (European) empire as the unilateral imposition of power dynamics by a dominant, omniscient actor, Flores reveals how Portuguese imperial administrators were vulnerable participants in a network of relations involving multiple political powers—relations that required enormous bureaucratic and diplomatic effort to understand and successfully navigate. Showing how a European empire was drawn into the political practices and rituals of the Indo-Persian world, Flores decenters the lenses conventionally used to observe the Portuguese empire in Asia and helps us rethink its nature while questioning the boundaries of the Indo-Persian world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51032512168209,"sku":"NIN9781512826449","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51334939246865,"sku":"NGR9781512826449","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1512826448.jpg?v=1763223911"},{"product_id":"mughal-padshah-book-jorge-flores-9789004307520","title":"The Mughal Padshah","description":"In The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English translation and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11, the Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals reads quite differently than the usual missionary report. Surviving in four different versions, this text reveals intriguing insights on Jahangir and his family, the Mughal court and its political rituals, as well as the imperial elite and its military and economic strength. A comprehensive introduction situates the Treatise in the ‘disputed’ landscape of European accounts on Mughal India, as well as illuminates the actual conditions of production and readership of such a text between South Asia and the Iberian Peninsula.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52618121871633,"sku":"NLS9789004307520","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789004307520.jpg?v=1768557776"},{"product_id":"nas-margens-do-hindustao-book-jorge-flores-9789892609768","title":"Nas Margens do Hindustao","description":"Nascido em 1526 pela mao de Babur, dominando Agra e Deli, o imperio mogol haveria de crescer paulatinamente nos dois seculos que se seguiram. A sua dimensao maxima foi alcancada em 1689, quando chegou a dominar Jinji, no extremo sul da India. Nesse preciso momento, o espaco politico do imperio quase se confundia com a propria geografia fisica do subcontinente. O encontro entre portugueses e mogois representava, a partida, uma improbabilidade. Mas a expansao dos ultimos, sistematica desde o ultimo terco do seculo XVI, transformou a improbabilidade em inevitabilidade. Como e que em Goa, capital do Estado da India, se encarou tal fenomeno? Como e que, entre ca. 1570-1640, os portugueses lidaram com a avassaladora progressao do imperio mogol para sul e em direccao ao mar? E este o ponto nevralgico da presente obra: esmiucar o modo como o Firangistan enfrentou o alargamento do Hindustan, estudar como se estabeleceu, imaginou e evoluiu a fronteira entre ambos. Escorado num significativo conjunto de fontes da epoca, este livro constitui uma solida investigacao acerca das inesperadas relacoes de vizinhanca entre mogois e portugueses, no quadro das questoes especificas que os estudos sobre a fronteira consagraram.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53494757785873,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53494758179089,"sku":"NIN9789892609768","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789892609768.jpg?v=1777837934"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-jorge-flores.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}