The Portuguese, Indian Ocean and European Bridgeheads, 1500-1800

Most of the articles are authored by renowned historians who are part of the new historiographical school, which tries to explode the various myths regarding the European expansion in the East and attempts to reconstruct the European activities in India in their right perspective, giving focus on their Indo-centric dimensions.

This volume is a tribute to the great service rendered to historiographical tradition by one of the most outstanding historians of our times, Professor Dr K.S. Mathew. His colleagues, friends, students and admirers all over the world have made use of this opportunity to express their solidarity with him by contributing scholarly articles, which make this volume a rich collection of research papers on Indo-European history, for which Prof. Mathew has spent his whole life-time and continues to do so. ''The Portuguese'', ''Indian Ocean'' and ''European expansion'' form the three major thematic areas on which he concentrated his academic researches for more than three decades and hence, the felicitation volume has taken this wider thematic frame.

Most of the articles are authored by renowned historians who are part of the new historiographical school, which tries to explode the various myths regarding the European expansion in the East and attempts to reconstruct the European activities in India in their right perspective, giving focus on their Indo-centric dimensions.