Unwanted Neighbours

Jorge Flores was educated at the University of Lisbon and the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is professor of early modern global history at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. In 2004 he co-curated (with Nuno Vassallo e Silva) the exhibition 'Goa and the Great Mughal' for the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. He is the author of several books and articles that explore the social and cultural history of the early modern Portuguese Empire in Asia, especially in South Asia and the Central Indian Ocean. Most recently, he has published The Mughal Padshah: A Jesuit Treatise on Emperor Jahangir's Court and Household (2016). Flores is currently preparing the companion volume of Unwanted Neighbours , tentatively titled The Accidental Persianate State: Political Communication between Portuguese Goa and Mughal India.

Note to the Reader
Prologue
List of Abbreviations
1 . Un-neighbourly Empires
2 . Chessboard Politics between Central Asia and the Arabian Sea
3 . Gujarat: Borderland Experiments I
4 . Gujarat: Borderland Experiments II
5 . The Deccan Wall
6 . Bengal, an Eastern 'Far West'
Bibliography
Index
About the Author