Portuguese Colonial Military In India

Author : Teddy Y.H. Sim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9811962952

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Portuguese Colonial Military in India by Teddy Y.H. Sim Pdf

This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India. These developments occurred under the onslaught of the early modern globalization. The research shows that far from being dilapidated or archaic, the Portuguese colonial military there kept up with some developments in technology and organization in a competitive environment. Although the colonial military was not the most important reason in accounting for the survival of the Portuguese Estado da Índia, nor was the military profession the most lucrative occupation, the Portuguese experience gave indication of how a colonial state and society was able to survive against coalescing threats from the position of weakness. Located in the period and geographical region of the wax and waning of the Mughal and Maratha empires, Portuguese India was not necessarily a more violent place than the surrounding territories although resistance to and uprising against the Portuguese was usually underestimated. Beginning from the attempt at political and military centralization (and standardization) in the eighteenth century, the abolition of the army of the Estado da Índia in the nineteenth marked nominally the end of an era that may have a reverberation on the pacifist perception of Goa today. Teddy Sim is involved in research extending from the doctoral work he does on the Portuguese enterprise in the East centering on colonial India in the eighteenth century, of which he has published related papers and the book Portuguese Enterprise in the East: Survival in the Years 1707-57 (2011). He is also the editor of Piracy and surreptitious activities in Malay Archipelago and adjacent regions (2014), and Maritime Defense of China: Ming General Qi Jiguang (2017).

Author : Teddy Y.H. Sim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811962943

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Portuguese Colonial Military in India by Teddy Y.H. Sim Pdf

This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India. These developments occurred under the onslaught of the early modern globalization. The research shows that far from being dilapidated or archaic, the Portuguese colonial military there kept up with some developments in technology and organization in a competitive environment. Although the colonial military was not the most important reason in accounting for the survival of the Portuguese Estado da Índia, nor was the military profession the most lucrative occupation, the Portuguese experience gave indication of how a colonial state and society was able to survive against coalescing threats from the position of weakness. Located in the period and geographical region of the wax and waning of the Mughal and Maratha empires, Portuguese India was not necessarily a more violent place than the surrounding territories although resistance to and uprising against the Portuguese was usually underestimated. Beginning from the attempt at political and military centralization (and standardization) in the eighteenth century, the abolition of the army of the Estado da Índia in the nineteenth marked nominally the end of an era that may have a reverberation on the pacifist perception of Goa today.

Author : R. P. Rao
Publisher : Bombay ; New York : Asia Publishing House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Goa
ISBN : UOM:39015008783642

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Portuguese Rule in Goa, 1510-1961 by R. P. Rao Pdf

Author : Charles Ralph Boxer
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025303652

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Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825 by Charles Ralph Boxer Pdf

Three lectures given at the University of Virginia in November, 1962.

Author : Indrani Chatterjee,Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253116710

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Slavery and South Asian History by Indrani Chatterjee,Richard M. Eaton Pdf

"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -- Edward A. Alpers, UCLA Despite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and even the category of slavery itself. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become slaves at birth or through capture, sale by relatives, indenture, or as a result of accusations of criminality or inappropriate sexual behavior. For centuries, trade in slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The contributors to this collection of original essays describe a wide range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves wherever possible. Contributors are Daud Ali, Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. Eaton, Michael H. Fisher, Sumit Guha, Peter Jackson, Sunil Kumar, Avril A. Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy Walker.

Author : Dr. Hemant Kumar Pandey & Manish Raj Singh
Publisher : Horizon Books ( A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd)
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789386369246

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INDIA’S MAJOR MILITARY & RESCUE OPERATIONS by Dr. Hemant Kumar Pandey & Manish Raj Singh Pdf

The book on “INDIA’s MAJOR MILITARY & RESCUE OPERATIONS” by Dr. H.K. Pandey and Manish Raj Singh which has been very well conceptualized. Both the writers have been into the process for almost last two years and have obtained the required details from all the possible available sources, researched it well and have given it a wonderful shape, to help anyone who wants to know about Indian Military & Rescue Operations. Dr. H.K. Pandey has a varied experience behind him being the present Head of the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Meerut College, Meerut. He has always positive attitude toward his subject. His knowledge and mastery on the subject is enormous. Manish Raj Singh, is a student in the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Meerut College, Meerut has shown keen interest and dedication towards the subject completely. He is very hardworking and enthusiastic. He has left no stones unturned to get the details about the topics of the subjects and comes out with the best possible outcome. His knowledge of the subject is evident from the work produced in this detailed book. The book has wonderfully covered the background, political views, role, tasks and the major technological development during these military and rescue operations. The book shall be of great help to the students of Defence Studies/Military Science of various Colleges and Universities all over India to get a fair idea about the strengths of India’s Operations to enhance their knowledge about operations for their use in subject for competitive examinations as applicable to them at various levels of their career. The general readers too will get a fair idea about the strength of Indian Forces during these operations at national and international level. This will give them the confidence to work hard in their concerned fields towards the development of a stronger India that is capable to take on its adversaries neighboring countries anytime and defeat their ongoing plans to imbalance its development as a power in South Asia. I once again congratulate both the writers for giving a comprehensive concise look at Indian Operations through their book and wish them all the success in their future endeavors. Maj. Gen. A K Shukla (VSM)

Author : Tarak Barkawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169586

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Soldiers of Empire by Tarak Barkawi Pdf

Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

Author : Hugo Gil Ferreira,Michael W. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521154855

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Portugal's Revolution by Hugo Gil Ferreira,Michael W. Marshall Pdf

This 1986 book is a major socio-political study of the fate of Portugal in the decade since the coup d'état. In over ninety hours of tape-recorded interviews, the authors have conducted discussions with officers of both left and right involved in the shaping of Portugal's political evolution.

Author : D. R. SarDesai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429968426

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India by D. R. SarDesai Pdf

This book deals with the sweep of traditional Indian history as well as with the post-independence events, judicially balancing narrative and analysis in the conceptual framework of postcolonial and postmodernist approaches, covering the process of change in India through the centuries.

Author : Steven Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674728806

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Army and Nation by Steven Wilkinson Pdf

Steven I. Wilkinson explores how India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. He uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy.

Author : Floribert Baudet,Eleni Braat,Jeoffrey van Woensel,Aad Wever
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462651838

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Perspectives on Military Intelligence from the First World War to Mali by Floribert Baudet,Eleni Braat,Jeoffrey van Woensel,Aad Wever Pdf

Many intelligence practitioners feel that the statutory footing on which intelligenceagencies have been placed forms an impediment to confronting unprecedented contemporarychallenges. On the basis of case studies spanning the period from the First WorldWar to the present, this book argues that while the intelligence community in the era ofglobalization has indeed come to face new and complex challenges that require adaptation,operating in demanding and changing environments is not new at all. This book questionsthe conventional wisdom of 9/11 or the end of the Cold War as caesurae. It also argues thatthe ability to adapt, innovate, question and learn from past experience is crucial for thesuccess of intelligence organizations, rather than ever-expanding funding. Agencies’ ability to reflect, adapt and learn from experience determines their subsequentcapability to deliver. One key development resulting from globalization is the markedincrease in cooperation between intelligence agencies of different countries on the onehand, and between investigative agencies and intelligence agencies on the other. This hasled to concerns over human rights and privacy and to increased calls for accountability andimproved oversight as the increase in cooperation between organizations operating globallyalso provides scope for the circumvention of domestic restrictions. This book proposes an instrument to assess the effectiveness of existing accountabilityarrangements and offers new insights into the role of (military) intelligence in anumber of crises, e.g., the 1962 Cold War confrontation over Western New Guinea, and thefunctioning of intelligence in peacekeeping operations ranging from Srebrenica to Mali. Thematically comprehensive, it offers a mixture of historical, legal, operational, and policyaspects, analyzed through the lens of institutional learning, bringing together academic andpractitioners’ perspectives. The focus lies not only on the familiar Anglo-Saxon experiencebut also on cases from India, the Netherlands, South East Asia, Bosnia, Lebanon, and Mali. The book is aimed at both scholars and practitioners studying and/or working in the fieldof civil and military intelligence, and those involved in international relations and internationalhumanitarian law/human rights law. It brings together contributions from authorswho spoke at the Conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Dutch MilitaryIntelligence and Security Service, organized by the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association(NISA), and from a number of authors who were specifically invited to participate.

Author : A.R. Disney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000941586

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The Portuguese in India and Other Studies, 1500-1700 by A.R. Disney Pdf

The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first, 'The Portuguese in India', includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India, Goa in the 17th century, the Portuguese India Company of 1628-33, smugglers, the great famine of the early 1630s and the ceremonial induction process for new viceroys. A second group focuses on the life, career and background of the count of Linhares, before, during and after his term as viceroy at Goa. The third group consists of studies on travel and communications between India and Portugal, both by sea and by land. The collection concludes with studies under the heading of 'historiography and problems of interpretation', on Charles Boxer as a biographer, and on Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence.

Author : United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Armies, Colonial
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU57047812

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Colonial Army Systems of the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and Belgium by United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division Pdf

Author : United States Military Information Division. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008216728

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Colonial Army Systems of the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and Belgium by United States Military Information Division. War Department Pdf

Author : Lowell S. Gustafson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 9780195041842

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The Sovereignty Dispute Over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands by Lowell S. Gustafson Pdf

The complex question of the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands remains far from resolved, even after the military and political events that took place from April to June 1982. The first scholarly work of its kind, this broad and dispassionate study of the causes of the South Atlantic war between Britain and Argentina addresses the larger issues raised by the Falkland crisis and untangles a web of events and attitudes that stretch back over the past century. The book begins with a close evaluation of the two pivotal arguments: Argentina's stance that international law supports their historical right to the islands, and Britain's position that the length of their occupation of the Falklands, together with the principles of self-determination, legalized their de facto control. Gustafson then discusses how potential off-shore oil reserves, diplomacy, domestic politics, and the use of force entered into the sovereignty dispute; analyzes the effects of war on international relations; and considers possible future approaches to handling the dispute.