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The Portuguese presence on the Arabian Sea coast of the Deccan dates from the beginning of the 16th century, with the establisment of Goa as the capital of a rapidly expanding maritime rnterprise that eventually encompassed much of Asia. In and around Goa, and further up the coast of what is now Maharashtra.
This guidebook is the first to showcase the vestiges of the Portugese sea forts of the Deccan, drawing attention to their surviving battlemented ramparts and ...
It is 256 BCE. Almost three hundred years after the death of the Buddha and four since the terrible battle of Kalinga. Upali, a monk and an embittered survivor of the war that made the Emperor Ashoka overlord of the whole of India, hates the emperor with all his heart. Yet it is to him that Ashoka, the self-proclaimed Beloved of the Gods, entrusts the task of putting the Buddha’s life and teachings down for posterity. For the Emperor is set on a new conquest - ...