The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.149

v3.c25.149

Mahmūd, now freed from the domination of ambitious ministers, turned his attention to the Portuguese. Khvāja Safar, Khudāvand Khān, was governor of Cambay, and was ordered to construct a fort at Sūrat for the protection of the maritime trade, which had been much harassed by the Portuguese ever since their establishment at Diū. Though much hampered by the Portuguese, who attempted, first by force and afterwards by bribery, to prevent its construction, the fort was successfully completed according to the principles of fortification then obtaining in Europe, and was armed with many guns which had belonged to Sulaimān Pāshā's fleet, and had been carried to Junāgarh by Mujāhid Khān.