Contents

pp v-viii

List of Charts, Figures and Tables

pp ix-x

A Tribute to Glenn Ames

pp xi-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xviii

List of Contributors

pp xix-xxiv

Glossary

pp xxv-xxxiv

Introduction: Towards Clarity through Complexity

pp 1-20

Part One - Adaptations and Transitions in the South and Southeast Asian Theatres, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries

pp 21-22

1 - Supplying Simples for the Royal Hospital: An Indo-Portuguese Medicinal Garden in Goa (1520–1830)

pp 23-47

2 - Malacca in the Era of Viceroy Linhares (1629–35)

pp 48-66

3 - From Meliapor to Mylapore, 1662–1749: The Portuguese Presence in São Tomé between the Qutb Shāhī Conquest and Its Incorporation into British Madras

pp 67-82

4 - Eighteenth-Century Diplomatic Relations between Portuguese Macao and Ayutthaya: The 1721 Debt Repayment Embassy from Macao

pp 83-105

5 - Continuities in Bengal's Contact with the Portuguese and Its Legacy: A Community's Future Engangled with the Past

pp 106-128

Part Two - Dispersion, Mobility and Demography from the Sixteenth into the Twenty-first Centuries

pp 129-130

6 - The Luso-Asians and Other Eurasians: Their Domestic and Diasporic Identities

pp 131-154

7 - The Population of the Portuguese Estado da Índia, 1750–1820: Sources and Demographic Trends

pp 155-177

8 - Flying with the Papagaio Verde (Green Parrot): An Indo-Portuguese Folkloric Motif in South and Southeast Asia

pp 178-202

Part Three - Mixed Legacies: The Portuguese and Luso-Asians in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

pp 203-204

9 - Portuguese Communities in East and Southeast Asia during the Japanese Occupation

pp 205-228

10 - Indo-Portuguese Literature and the Goa of Its Writers

pp 229-238

11 - Binding Ties of Miscegenation and Identity: The Narratives of Henrique Senna Fernandes (Macao) and Rex Shelley (Singapore)

pp 239-258

12 - Portuguese Past, Still Imperfect: Revisiting Asia in Luso-Diasporic Writing

pp 259-272

Bibliography

pp 273-298

Index

pp 299-323