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Antonio Teixeira de Macedo died in Mangalore 425 years ago. His flesh and bones became part of Bolar’s sands as his coffin rotted away,...

The novel has been the source material for post graduate thesis and research studies.   2015: Mabel Cynthia Mascarenhas. Representation...

Shades within Shadows  is a story of the Mangalorean Christian community set largely in the turbulent months of Tipu's siege of Mangalore...

From the 16th century onwards there have been waves of migration from Goa to the Kanara coast, Mangalore, and even further on to the...

With his book, Sarasvati’s Children , I came in contact with Alan Prabhu of Bangalore (origin: Mangalore). I had been doing research on...

Haidar Ali’s and Tipu Sultan’s policy towards Goa and their Kanara Christian subjects were dramatically different.    Haidar accepted...

Tipu adopted a very different policy from Haidar’s, one that caused much anxiety to Goa and his own Christian subjects. Many superficial...

Goan Christians were were forcibly co-opted by the Portuguese into their cultural, religious and political orbit in the process of state...

Gomez’s Relación de Mangalore   contains four sketches.   One drawing depicts the ceremonial reception given by Haidar’s admiral for the...

Buchanan classified Kanara's cultivated land into either rice fields or plantations. Rice cultivation was tedious and back breaking. The...

In response to a questionnaire sent by Buchanan, Ravenshaw, the Collector of South Kanara, provided the following information about the...

A 1629 tombstone, stumbled upon in a dusty, neglected corner of a compound in Bolar by Ivan Saldanha Shet, tells a story. It also leaves...

Summary of Buchanan’s itinerary through South Kanara.  Map adapted from Basel Mission archives January 22, 1801 Buchanan’s first halt in...

In his book Sapiens , Harari observes that what gave Europe the edge over other civilizations in colonizing large regions of the world...

An engraved granite stone presently placed at the entrance of Rosario Cathedral records the one-time presence of a Portuguese factory at...

The Bangher Raja’s fort once stood midway between Sultan Battery and Pentland Pet Road, to the west of the Mangalore-Kulur Road, close to...

Two French maps and one Spanish map of give details of Haidar Ali’s Mangalore. The French maps are presently preserved in the archives in...

Talk delivered at Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Povorim, Goa, 2014 A most startling fact emerges from population estimates of...

Following Vijayanagara’s collapse in 1565, Goa constructed four forts along the Kanara coast in order to secure its rice and pepper...