Book | Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World | by Jorge Flores | Editor’s Note
30 October 2024
‘Empire of Contingency’ explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India―a period during which Portuguese imperial ambitions struggled for survival, while the Mughal empire was at the height of its power and influence. Jorge Flores uncovers the tenuous but ingenious apparatuses of intelligence through which the Estado […]












