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Originally posted by: history_geek

Rashmi,

Portuguese had many other places under their control other than Goa initially, like Hoogli(Bengal) which they lost in 1631 when Shah Jahan asked Qasim Khan to seize it from them.

Before this, Jahangir had given a crushing blow to Portuguese power in 1611 because they had captured the Ship of his mother Mariam Zamani. The British merchant who was present at the court of Jahangir writes that, MUZ complained to Jahangir and Jahangir immediately ordered for seizure of Portuguese towns in India.

Surat was besieged. The churches in Agra and Lahore were closed. Not only, he writes Jahangir made the Portuguese agent suffer a lot who was present at the Mughal court at Agra for this incident.

The problem of Portuguese was that they wanted to gain advances in Indian territories by harassing the Mughal officials. Because they were very powerful in the oceans.

But challenging Mughals on land was not their cup of tea. This MUZ ship capture incident is said to be a game changer in Indian politics. Before this incident it was the British who were lagging behind Portuguese ; but now Portuguese were routed badly and British gained prominence..

Portuguese again tried to challenge Mughal might, Shah Jahan;s general inflicted a crushing defeat on them...

Then, later their empire back in Portugal was suffering + the finance dried up...No one was funding Portuguese back from home, unlike British, Dutch and French, who started to attack Portuguese in India...

In 1661, Bombay was given to British.

Later, the Maratha chief inflicted a crushing defeat on Portuguese in 1739 and took away the island of Salsette and 1 more island, from them...

Finally they were left with Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1779 ; and in 1840's they had Goa..

There are more incidents, I forgot them. 😕
Hope this helps. :)


PS : Their power was heavily broken by Jahangir when they captured MUZ's ship.. They should not have done that. :-P

Originally posted by: elasingh

In 1600 India's population was 10 crore...

Originally posted by: elasingh

I feel sorry for Moti bai...What will happen to her when Jodha dies?

Originally posted by: history_geek

@Lasya,,

What did you find interesting in that story. ? . :-P

Just asking. :)

Originally posted by: history_geek

Hi all

Made a thread on forum:
Remembering Maharana Pratap today | 418th Anniversary


Also check...Blog Post
https://mariam-uz-zamani.blogspot.in/2015/01/remembering-maharana-pratap-tribute.html

Originally posted by: history_geek

Hi all

New Post:::

Two important events happened in the Life of Akbar, on 20th January...One was 453 years back and another was 445 years back...

Made a note of them here...

Akbar visited Ajmer 453 years back for the FIRST time - ONLY to ULTIMATELY get married to MUZ.?. + 445 years back for thanksgiving on Salim's birth..

Originally posted by: Rak014

Good morning all!😃

Totally stopped watching JA, not even reading the updates.

The very face of Mallika-E-Sultanate shoots up my bp. Maybe, she is the only villain whom have hated so intensly on tv!🤔

Seriously! Rukaiyya is heights of bit**hism. I dont even know if such a word exists!😆