Report To The Secretary Of State For India In Council On The Portuguese Records Relating To The East Indies Contained In The Archivo Da Torre Do Tombo And The Public Libraries At Lisbon And Evora [Hardcover]

Name : Report To The Secretary Of State For India In Council On The Portuguese Records Relating To The East Indies Contained In The Archivo Da Torre Do Tombo And The Public Libraries At Lisbon And Evora [Hardcover]

Author : F. C. Danvers

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121245630

Language : English

Pages : 201-300 Pages

Publish Year : 2020

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About the Book : -This book, "Report to the Secretary of State for India in Council on the Portuguese records relating to the East Indies contained in the Archivo da Torre do Tombo and the public libraries at Lisbon and Evora," by the author, is a replication of a book originally published before 1892. In the following pages he has given extracts from some of the documents he examined in Lisbon and Lvora. These he has, as a rule, arranged in chronological order. Where necessary, in order to make them more intelligible, he has connected them together by brief historical extracts taken from Portuguese publications, and this he has endeavoured to do in such a manner as to avoid any appearance of an attempt to form them into an historical essay, which would have been out of place on the present occasion. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. About the Author:-Frederic Charles Danvers, often Frederick, was a British civil servant and writer on engineering. The Superintendent of the India Office Records between 1884 and 1898, he was also a historian and wrote works on India. He was sent to Lisbon in 1891 to study records of Portuguese rule in the East. His report, based on research in the Torre do Tombo archives and the public libraries in Lisbon and Evora, was published in 1892. He retired from the

Country of Origin : India