Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Translated
Texts from the Age of the Discoveries is designed to provide access
to translations of 16th- and 17th-century documents which
illustrate various aspects of this encounter, combining texts from
indigenous sources with those from the Portuguese histories and
archives. These documents contribute to the growing understanding
that different groups of European colonizers - missionaries,
traders and soldiers - had conflicting motivations and objectives.
Scholars have also begun to emphasize that the colonized were not
mere victims but had their own agendas and that they occasionally
successfully manipulated colonial powers. The texts in this volume
help to substantiate these assertions while also illustrating the
changing nature of the interactions. The present volume contains
chapters covering the Portuguese arrival in Sri Lanka and their
first encounters with the island and its peoples, their subsequent
relations with Kandy and Jaffna, and a final chapter on Portuguese
relations with the Maldive Islands. A historical introduction
provides the context in which the documents can be read and a
select bibliography indicates the most recent and authoritative
secondary works on the subject
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