Unwanted Neighbours: The Mughals, the Portuguese, and Their Frontier Zones

by Jorge Flores

In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, had never been to the ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several Portuguese merchants in Khambayat rushed to Akbar's presence. This encounter marked the beginning of a long, complex, and unequal relationship between a continental Muslim empire that was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199486743
• ISBN13: 9780199486748
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"