In the Indian Ocean in particular, the Portuguese governors, the ones who established the empire, they were people of their time, and they were relatively ruthless.

Oddly the first shots in the long war for the Indian Ocean, in the fighting that broke out in Calicut in 1500, were not fired by the Portuguese.

The Indian Ocean provides a new way of looking at world history that has been dominated by European accounts.

Challenging traditional narratives of Western dominance, it argues that the Ottomans were not only active participants in the Age of Exploration, but ultimately bested the Portuguese in the game of ...

No Indian Ocean king, except Rajendra Chola, had the imagination to plan something like this. None except Rajendra had the generals, the crack troops and the mercantile alliances to even dream of ...

Most historians have believed that the Indian Ocean lost its unity, but Bose persuasively argues that the system retained its common identity even while its components nurtured nationalist goals.

Empires of the Sea is part-primer, part-synoptic overview, which summarises for the lay reader different academic trends and discussions. It is, in addition, a reflective work on how we should see ...

Mr Sawant accused the Portuguese of destroying Indian temples during their rule. He claimed that the Portuguese stopped the destruction after signing a peace pact with the Marathas.

The seismic event that triggered the new seafloor volcano in the Indian Ocean generated over 11,000 detectable earthquakes since May 2018.

With great ingenuity, the Harvard historian Bose uses the story of the Indian Ocean from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century as the framework for a multidisciplinary history of ...