The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c12.640

c12.640

PORTUGUESE: play a grand part over the whole of the East, the objects which they pursue as to the whole of Asia, their first visit to Calicut (1498); the Venetians join the Egyptians to oppose the Portuguese, have many encounters with the Musalmān fleet, their first voyage north of Goa (1503), 43; capture Goa on the west coast (1510), 641; capture Bijāpur vessels, 646; destroy vessels in the port of Chaul and near Dābhol (1507), their defeat at Chaul (1508), defeat Egyptian and Gujarāt fleets at Diu (1508); defeat Turkish fleet at Diu (1538), 44; protect vessels frequenting Ahmadnagar ports, establish a factory and build a port at Chaul, 45; destroy Dābhol because the Bijāpur king does not acknowledge the supremacy of their fleet, 45; defeated by the Gujarāt admiral (1521); defeat the Gujarāt fleet at Chaul (1527) and take seventy-three Gujarāt ships in a battle off Bāndra (1528), burn Nāgothna, Bassein, and Agāshi (1529), defeated at Chaul (1530), Bassein ceded to them and Gujarāt ships put under their protection; obtain Diu as the price of the alliance against the Moghal, 46; make treaties with Ahmadnagar and Bijāpur against Bijāpur; obtain Bijāpur ports and give protection to Bijāpur fleet; defeat Bijāpur troops at Achra (1555); become masters of the Bijāpur coast (1560), 47; acquire places in the North Konkan, 48, 49; repulse attacks by the Bijāpur and Ahmadnagar kings, 49; take Korlai (1594), 50; their system of administration and decline, 52-66; send out fleets of the north and of the south to protect their ships and possessions from the pirates, 61; trade of the (1565), 62; enter into a treaty with the emperor Jahāngir against the English, the Dutch, and the Malabār pirates (1615), 62; prevent native vessels from sailing along the Konkan without their permission, 63; lose commercial superiority and prestige on the Persian Gulf and the Cape of Good Hope routes; cause of the decline of their power, 64; show for some time interest in their Indian possessions, but again neglect them till 1739, 64; their pleasure-houses near Bassein, 65; remains at Bassein, Lower Chaul, Mándvi, Kelva-Māhím, and Marol, 65; churches in Sālsette and Bassein, 65; remains at Mandapeshvar, 66; capture ships from Shivāji's fleet (1670), 69; prevent Shivāji from entering into the port of Bombay (1678), 71; repulse Sambhājī's attack on Chaul but lose Karanja (1683), 77; re-take Karanja, Santa Cruz, and Asheri (1684), 78; war declared against, by Aurangzeb (1694), 80; burn Marātha ships (1695), 80; fight with the Arab pirates (1712-20), 82; attempt to take Kolāba (1737), 83; defeat the Marāthas (1738), 84; with the surrender of the capital of the North (Bassein) lose every vestige of their power in the Northern Konkan (1739), and their fleet destroyed by the Angria (1741); attack the Marātha district near Goa but are defeated (1756), 85.