Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Sidh Losa Mendiratta Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade routes by occupying the region’s major coastal settlements and blockading others. How was its urban development during the Early Modern period shaped by slavery, caste and religion? https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/events/joseph-c-miller-memorial-lecture-by-sidh-losa-mendiratta https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/@@site-logo/Logo BCDSS_web.png

Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade routes by occupying the region’s major coastal settlements and blockading others.
How was its urban development during the Early Modern period shaped by slavery, caste and religion?