[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Akhbār-i Maḥabbat](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.akhbar-i-mahabbat) › [Akhbar-i Muhabbat, of Nawab Muhabbat Khan (Elliot & Dowson, extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.akhbar-i-mahabbat~en-elliot) › 4.2 # Akhbar-i Mahabbat 4.2 Akhbár-i Muhabbat, of Nawáb Muhabbat Khán (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 4.2 - **Language:** English ### [4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.akhbar-i-mahabbat~en-elliot.4.2) (1495 A.D.), when weakness and disorder found their way into the government of the Sultans of the Dakhin, the Portuguese Christians received orders from their King to build their forts on the shore of the Indian Ocean. In the year 904 A.H. (1499 A.D.) four ships of the same people arrived at the ports of Kandaria and Kalikot (Calicut), and having made themselves acquainted with the circumstances of the place, they returned to their own country. Next year six vessels came and anchored at Kalikot. The Portuguese petitioned the chief of the place, who was called Samuri (Zamorin), to prohibit the Muhammadans from intercourse with Arabia, remarking that they would benefit him much more than the Muhammadans could. The Samuri, however, gave no heed to their prayers, but the Christians began to deal harshly with the Muhammadans in all their transactions. At last the Samuri, being provoked, gave orders that the Christians should be slain and plundered. Seventy persons of rank were destroyed among the Christians, and those who remained embarked on the vessels, and thus saved themselves. They landed near the city of Koji (Cochin), the chief of which was at hostility with the Samuri. They obtained his permission to build a fort, which they completed hurriedly in a very short time. They demolished a mosque on the sea-shore, and made a Christian church of it. This was the first fort which the Christians built in India. - [Previous: 4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.akhbar-i-mahabbat~en-elliot.4.1) - [Next: 4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.akhbar-i-mahabbat~en-elliot.4.3) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.akhbar-i-mahabbat~en-elliot.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.akhbar-i-mahabbat~en-elliot.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.akhbar-i-mahabbat~en-elliot.4.2) · Pramāṇa