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Empire of contingency: how Portugal entered the Indo-Persian world

Empire of contingency: how Portugal entered the Indo-Persian world
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ISBN 1512826448 (hardcover)
9781512826449 (hardcover)
Author Flores, Jorge Manuel 1964-
Title Empire of contingency : how Portugal entered the Indo-Persian world / Jorge Flores
Publisher Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024
Physical desc. xii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Note CB illustration: page 51, figure 4 (In 03.263v).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part 1: Spying, conversing, knowing. Information and documentary regimes -- The Mughal realm under Portuguese surveillance -- The spy ring of Viceroy Count of Linhares -- Intelligence and ethnography at Linhares's desk -- Part 2: Writing, translating, performing. The Oficial de Unha -- The Língua do Estado -- Familiar letters and letter dissections -- 'With the letters inserted like seed pearls': epistolary performances -- (Un)staging the Farman -- Conclusion.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 03
Portugal -- Relations -- Mughal Empire
Mughal Empire -- Relations -- Portugal
Portugal -- History -- 16th century
Portugal -- History -- 17th century
Mughal Empire -- History
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