Portuguese India

known for the destruction of hundreds of Hindu temples across northern and central India. The rulers persecuted Hindus and promoted the forced conversion of the local population to Islam. This period saw the establishment of a Hindu Kingdom, Vijayanagar Empire, in south India in 1336 by two Hindu brothers, Harihar and Bukka. It was an attempt to protect the Hindu culture from the invading Muslim armies from north India. In 1398, the Delhi Sultanate was invaded by Timur the Lame, the founder of…

private rooms and secure storage for their goods (Hubbell 6). This made trade through the Ottoman Empire easier, serving to expedite connections across Western Asia. In Europe, England and the Netherlands chartered the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company respectively. These were joint-stock companies that ventured to the Indian Ocean and had the power to go to war and govern conquered peoples. The companies earned a profit through transit trade within Asia and could…

Through my ancestor’s historic journey from India to British Guiana my Indo-Guyanese identity becomes clearer. Furthermore, the aim of this paper is to establish transparency and dispel the vagueness around the indentured labor system in British West Indies. The paper also special places emphasis on the journey of the women in that era and…

of the Portuguese people becoming collective unit within their music. By describing the history of fado and the development…

and change names in documents. For instance, a Portuguese military command named himself, “ …governor of Rio Grande de San Pedro”(Herzog, 41) . Soon enough, both parties realize that either one of them could use that legal writing document as a tool to posses a territory by changing and tweaking the information. The lesson here, for anyone interested in power, will be that…

America had one major difference when comparing its culture—Brazil. This country speaks Portuguese due to its history. The language has shaped the country in a different trajectory than other countries in South America. I have explored some of the cultures of Brazil by reading about its history, listening to music in Portuguese and watching various movies set in Brazil. Additionally, I started studying Portuguese at the University, which has peaked…

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story”-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Before watching this Ted Talk, I thought that my story of Africa and Latin America was the only story. I quickly learned how incorrect I was about this. As I was first questioned about Africa and Latin America, I wrote words such as “poverty, uneducated and hungry”. Before learning about the nations…

identity is rather fragmented, mainly because of the geographical division of the islands. The northern tend to identify more with the Portuguese colonizers, whereas the southern have a closer cultural affinity with Africa. This can be seen in the different dialect of Creole spoken in the North, reflecting a larger influence from the official language of Portuguese, versus the South where its leans more toward ‘African’ sounds. The southern islands retain more of their African traditions even…

As its title suggests, place and space figure heavily in Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, “The Lowland.” The reader finds herself journeying from the craggy shores of Rhode Island, to the bustling streets of Post-independence India, and finally in the hyacinth filled pools of the titular lowland area of Tollygunge, Calcutta. It is here that the mystery and tragedy of Lahiri’s novel takes place, a compassionate tale of family, betrayal, and political ideology set against the backdrop of the Naxalite…

could be married to many women at the same time. In the Americas specifically North America, their continued to be a separation in society between the Natives and European settlers. The European settlers came with more women than the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors in Latin America. The presence of European woman made marrying an individual of African or native origin unnecessary so any mixed people were alienated and there…