| Journal: | Historia. Questoes & debates |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000272116 |
| ISSN: | 0100-6932 |
| Authors: | Subrahmanyam, Sanjay1 |
| Institutions: | 1University of California, Los Angeles, California. Estados Unidos de América |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Season: | Jul-Dic |
| Number: | 45 |
| Pages: | 129-151 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Ensayo |
| Approach: | Histórico, analítico |
| English abstract | The present paper examines the extent of the spread of the use of firearms in Southern India in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the role played by the Portuguese, especially by private Portuguese. The sources used are largely European, supplemented however by some literary material in Telugu and Sanskrit, generated in the courts of the so-called “Nayaka” kingdoms of 16th and 17th century Tamilnadu. Using these, it is hoped to shed light not merely on the actual use of firearms, but on how they were perceived in the south Indian polities of the period |
| Portuguese abstract | O presente artigo examina a extensao da propagacao do uso de armas de fogo no sul da India nos seculos XVI e XVII e o papel que os portugueses desempenharam nesse processo, especialmente os individuos privados portugueses. As fontes utilizadas sao majoritariamente europeias, suplementadas, no entanto, por algum material literario em telegu e sanscrito, produzido nas cortes dos chamados reinos “Nayaka” do Tamilnadu dos seculos XVI e XVII. Usando-as, espera-se lancar luz nao meramente ao uso de armas de fogo em si, mas em como elas eram percebidas pelos governos do sul da India do periodo |
| Disciplines: | Historia |
| Keyword: | Historia militar, India, Portugal, Siglos XVI-XVII, Armas de fuego |
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