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(s): Teddy Y.H. Sim
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 206
City: Singapore
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Maps
List of Tables
1 Literature Survey and Military Developments in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Introduction
Brief Literature Review
Military Developments in the Early Modern and Globalizing Period
Line-Up of Chapters
Conclusion
2 Developments of the Metropole and Empire on the World Stage
Introduction
Developments Around the World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Colonial Military Enterprises in Brazil and East Africa
The Portuguese in the East from the Sixteenth Century to the Early Eighteenth Century
Conclusion
3 Development of the Portuguese Colonial Military in India 1780–1850
Introduction
Strategic Context of the Estado Da Índia
Trends in Military Establishment
Reading the Profile of Soldiers
Conclusion
4 Non-war Violence in Portuguese India, 1780–1850
Introduction
Social System and Conditions of Employment
Uprisings in Goa
Other Facets of Non-war Violence in Society
Conclusion
5 The Portuguese in the Seas of Western India
Introduction
Situation in the Seas and Coastal Areas of Western India
Nature of Portuguese Navy and Coastal Defence System in India
Trade, Rivalry and Potentiality of Violence on the Sea
Conclusion
6 Portuguese Defence and Activities in Goa During the Indian Mutiny
Introduction
The Larger Context of Developments Outside Goa
Specific Developments in Goa During the Indian Mutiny and Military Deployments
The Aftermath and Legacy
Conclusion
7 Epilogue
Introduction
Portuguese in India in the Transitional Period from Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century
Comparison of Portuguese with Dutch Experience in India in Context of British Developments
Conclusion
List of Portuguese Governors/Viceroys of India (1758–1871)
List of Mughal Rulers (1760–1857)
List of Maratha Rulers (1682–1818)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
