[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c7.s7.46 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s7.46 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s7.46 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s7.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s7.46) Vijayanagar, offensive and defensive, against Bijápur. The Portuguese were bound to defend the coast of the Ahmadnagar kingdom against pirates, in return for which they were to receive as payment sailors provisions and timber for their ships. The treaty with Bijapur contained also many stipulations as to trade. Both stipulated against the ports of this coast being open to or any help being given to fleets or ships of the Turks.¹ Immediately after these treaties were concluded followed the Portuguese expedition of 1547-8, which seems to have exceeded all previous ones in cruelty and severity, for every place between Goa and Shrivardhan is said to have been burnt by the Portuguese, and the same thing was repeated in 1555 and 1557, Dábhol being always the first place to suffer. By 1548 however the Bijápur power had suffered so much as to find it necessary to cede ports to the Portuguese, and to accept the protection of their fleet; but for many years after the peace then made there were frequent hostilities in which the Southern Konkan suffered severely. In 1555 an expedition was sent from Goa which defeated the Bijápur troops at Achra and on the Kárli river, both near Málvan.² Ferishta records a Musalmán success in 1571, which the Portuguese historians do not mention. A Portuguese force landed at Dábhol to destroy it in the usual manner but the Governor laid an ambush and killed 150 of the attacking party. It is evident however that by 1560 the Portuguese were entirely masters of this coast, and once established they never drew back. The Musalmán writers quite acknowledge the importance of the position of which they were thus deprived, and complain that nothing but an insignificant coasting trade was left to them.³ The cruelties, which even the Portuguese historians admit, are of course put in a much stronger light by their victims. - [Previous: c7.s7.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s7.45) - [Next: c7.s7.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s7.47) - [Up: c7.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s7) ## Linked texts (2) - [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) — Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Firishta 1606, Persian - [Karli](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.karli) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s7.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c7.s7.46) · Pramāṇa