History Of The Portuguese In Bengal - HARDCOVER

About the Book :-The author has collected some interesting facts relative to the commercial, political and religious enterprises of the Portuguese in Bengal. The work done by the Portuguese as pioneers of European commerce in this part of India has not, perhaps, been sufficiently recognized, for it may truly be said that they paved the way for the commercial ventures of the Dutch, the English and other European nations. He quotes an array of authorities in support of his account, which shows that the Portuguese, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, occupied a position in Bengal comparable to that of the British in the middle of the eighteenth, with their settlements and factories, not only at the principal ports, Hughli and Chittagong, but at many other places in Eastern and Western Bengal, and as far up the Ganges as Patna. The earliest British mercantile adventurers in Bengal and the adjacent countries established themselves, naturally, at places where the Portuguese had already found openings for European commerce. The book is divided into 3 parts covering 18 chapters. The part one covers the rise of Portuguese in Bengal; the second part contains the decline and fall of the Portuguese in Bengal, and (c) the third part covers relics of the Portuguese in Bengal. It has six illustrations and three maps. About the Author:-Joachim Joseph A. Campos, also known as J.J.A. Campos, was an author, editor and took an active interest in history. He is known for his book History of the Portuguese in Bengal,[1] which according to the historian Dr. Teotonio R. De Souza remains ‘still a classic’. He reminds us in his interesting book that Portuguese had become a lingua franca for Eastern ports, and that Clive " knew no Indian language but could speak Portuguese fluently and commanded his native troops in the Portuguese language." There were Portuguese victims in the Black Hole. The adventurers intermarried with the natives.