[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) › [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) › [History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs) › 349.12 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 349.12 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 349.12 - **Language:** English ### [349.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.349.12) but the governor, Khwaja Ally Shirazy, having heard of their intentions, permitted them to land, and put to death upwards of a hundred and fifty Portuguese. From the time the vessels belonging to Akbur Padshah were taken, that monarch laid an embargo on all his ships sailing either to the Red Sea or to the Gulf of Persia, as heretofore, conceiving that to obtain passes from the Europeans would be derogatory to his dignity; and the ships being plundered incurred both disgrace to the King and loss to his subjects. Some of the governors on the sea-coast, however, such as Abdool Raheem of Surat, and others, obtaining passes for their vessels, still continued to trade. In the year 1020, the Emperor of Dehly, Jehangeer, the son of Akbur Padshah, granted a spot for the English to build a factory in the city of Surat, in the province of Guzerat, which is the first settlement that people made on the shores of Hindoostan. The persuasion of this nation is different from that of other Europeans, particularly the Portuguese, with whom they are in a state of constant warfare. They assert that Jesus was a mortal, and the Prophet of God; that there is only one God; and that he is without equal, and has no “wife, nor son, according to the belief of the Portuguese. The English have a separate king, independent of the King of Portugal, to whom they owe no allegiance; but on the contrary, these two nations put each other to death wheresoever they meet. - [Previous: 349.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.349.11) - [Next: 349.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.349.13) - [Up: 349](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.349) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.349.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.349.12) · Pramāṇa