Description
Goa-Kanara Portuguese Relations 1498-1763 is a posthumous work by the late Prof. B.S. Shastry. The Xavier Centre of Historical Research has a series of books on Portuguese studies and this is no.8 in the series. This work deals with the Portuguese arrival in India and late at Kanara; their attempts to take over Bhatkal; their fortresses on the Kanara Coast and their relationships with the Nayakas of lkkeri from 1499-1763. There are reference to Christianity and to trade and commerce in Kanara for the same period
