GLOBALISING GOA is a 618-page hardbound book. If you like history, you might appreciate it. In this book, a scholar in France (Ernestine Carreira) argues that before the British Raj, Goa was the capital of a European maritime empire that teetered on the brink of collapse in the seventeenth century. Yet, Goa itself became a thriving cultural, religious and diplomatic hub in the eighteenth century between the foremost subcontinental empires of the day -- Mughal, Maratha and Mysore.
Part 1. From Empire to Estado: Locating Goa inside and outside Portuguese Imperial Dynamics (1660-1822) 21 Chapter 1. ESTADO DA ÍNDIA/ESTADO DE GOA: THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES OF THE AREA GOVERNED BY GOA 1.1. Dismantling the Imperial Networks and Building up a Maritime State (1650-1720) 1.2. From the Estado da Índia to the Ascendancy of Goa: Territorialisation from the 1730s to the 1780s 1.3. From the Indian Republic to Imperial Dynamics: The Atlanticisation of Goa (1760-1822) Chapter 2. AN EMPIRE FOR SALE: FRENCH AND BRITISH COMPANIES IN THEIR STRATEGIC BIDS TO TAKE OVER ESTADO DA ÍNDIA PORTS (1661-1813) 2.1. Diplomatic Offensives and Purchase Bids (1660-1720) 2.2. Indirect Take-Over Strategies: 1730-1792 2.3. Annexation Strategies in Portuguese India: 1793-1813 Chapter 3. THE CORPORATIST EMPIRE AND COSMOPOLITANISM: FRENCH OFFICERS IN THE SERVICE OF GOA Men at Arms in Goa: The Mercenary Tradition Novas Conquistas and New Army Corps Promotion and the Upper Ranks Part 2. Capitalizing on the Catholic Nation in Western India: Goa’s Regional Networks of Influence in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 4. BETWEEN CATHOLIC SOLIDARITY AND COLLUSIVE NETWORKING: LUSO-FRENCH RELATIONS IN INDIA IN THE DUPLEIX ERA 4.1. Establishing Networks of Information and Commerce169 4.2. Networks and their Political Repercussions: Franco-Portuguese Solidarity in India 4.3. The Period of French Expansionism (1748-1754) Chapter 5. BETWEEN TWO PERIPHERIES: GOA AND FRENCH ESTABLISHMENTS ON THE MALABAR COAST 5.1. Agents of the Compagnie and Community Solidarity on the Malabar Coast in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century – the Padroado’s Catholic Networks 5.2. The Malabar Coast in the Era of Expansionism: Pepper Markets in the Liberalisation of Trans-Oceanic Exchange (1765-1793) 5.3. The British Annexation of the Malabar Coast in 1793: The “Portuguese Nation” Absorbed into British Networks 5.4. The Evolution of the “Portuguese Nation” in Mahé from the Founding of the Counter until the Last British Occupation Chapter 6. OUTPOSTS OF TRADE AND PERIPHERAL SETTLEMENTS: THE CATHOLICS OF SURAT FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 6.1. Surat as Strategic Link between Catholic Nations in India: 1600-1750 6.2. The Globalisation of Trade and Conflict: Surat as a Strategic Site 6.3. Daily Life in a Small Outlying Settlement: Trading Practices, Family Networks and Religious Rites Part 3. Goa in Global Trade: A Study of the Two Pillars of Worldwide Trade in the Modern Era (16th-18th Century) Chapter 7. MONETARISING TRADE IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION: THE PATACA (SPANISH AMERICAN DOLLAR) AS A PILLAR OF MONETARY UNITY IN OVERSEAS PORTUGAL BEFORE BRAZILIAN INDEPENDENCE 7.1. Historiographical Status Quo of the Circulation of American Cash Flows in Modern-Era Asia 7.2. Monopolies, Repressive Legislation and Governmental Policy: Monetary Pragmatism and the Pataca in Portuguese Overseas Territories before Brazilian Independence (1822) 7.3. Can Goa be seen as a Paradigm of the Piaster’s Hegemony in Early Modern Times? Reporting Currencies and Exchange in the Estado Capital before 1880 Chapter 8. PERIPHERAL ACTIVITIES AND PERIPHERAL NETWORKS: GOA AND THE GLOBALISATION OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN THE MODERN ERA 377 8.1. Goan Society in the Era of Slavery (1510-1842): Cosmopolitanism and Servitude 8.2. From Supply to Demand: Slave-Trading Networks in the Estado before the Globalisation of the Slave Trade in the 1770s 8.3. Mozambique and Goa in the Rise of a Globalised Slave Trade (1770-1820): The Dynamics of a Favourable Context Part 4. From Western Imagination to Eastern Memory: The Complex Voyage of Goan Historiography Chapter 9. HOSPITALITY: A STORY OF LOST MEMORY. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GOA AND RIO DE JANEIRO 9.1. On Memory, Old and Recent 9.2. The Travel Journal: A First-Rate Source of Information? 9.3. Christian Hospitality in the Portuguese Empire in the Early Modern Era 9.4. Specialised Commercial Hospitality: The Difficult Transition into the Nineteenth Century Chapter 10. EXOTIC, EROTIC AND MONSTROUS: THE GOAN WOMAN AS STEREOTYPE IN WESTERN TRAVEL NARRATIVES 10.1. Dominant Lines of the Travel Narrative: Emerging Stereotypes of Goan Women in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 10.2. Using Literary Stereotypes for Historiographical Purposes: A Portrait of a Society in Turmoil 10.3. From Travel Narratives to Historical Fiction, or the Art of Inventing a Goa with no Goan Women: 1900s-2000s Chapter 11. BRIDGING THE OCEANS: CONSTRUCTING THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL VISIBILITY OF GOAN WOMEN 11.1. Pioneering Works (1840s-1940s): Scholars from Goa and Beyond 11.2. The Trials of Emergent Historiographical Research in the West in the 1960s and After 11.3. Back to India: A New Generation of Goan Historians in Gender Studies Final Considerations, Rather Than a Conclusion List of Figures References Index This book is available at Rs500 post-free anywhere in India. WhatsApp +91-9822122436. -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
