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Accepted Paper:

On the fringes of the Estado da Índia: negotiating imperial power in the Persian Gulf (ca. 1507-1725)  
João Teles e Cunha (Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa)

Paper short abstract:

During two centuries the Estado da Índia had to negotiate its presence in the Persian Gulf, an important area for its security, with different polities and agents in a complex process that evolved with time, reshaping time and again the nature of the Portuguese presence in this area.

Paper long abstract:

Portuguese presence in the Persian Gulf was vital for the security of the Estado da Índia and the economic feasibility of the Cape Route as envisaged by Afonso de Albuquerque. However, this straightforward strategy had to adopt itself in the terrain to the volatile nature of regional politics, the international rivalries between empires, and the shifting allegiances and alliancies, coupled with the Gulf's ethnic and religious divide. As the successor of another sea-power in the area, Hormuz, the Estado da Índia had to deal with new political realities, namely the emergence of new states and empires (Safavids, Ottomans and Omanis), to negotiate its presence in the Gulf, either establishing protectorates, or by negotiating indirectly with elusive polities in the periphery in order to maintain its paramouncy.

Panel P03
Out of India: reinstating the empire in the periphery. Fluid Portuguese powers in different Asian political contexts from the Persian Gulf to Japan (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)
  Session 1 Wednesday 17 July, 2013, -