The Mhamai’s and Goa’s Neighbours: Commercial Links and Allied Interests
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Author: S K Mhamai
PB | pp. 192 | 2007 | S K Mhamai
The Mhamai’s and Goa’s Neighbours takes a look at the Kamat Mhamai’s intense trade and other activities with the help of correspondence.
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The trading family of Kamat Mhamais of Goa have been an important role player in the economic, maritime and cultural history of Goa under the Portuguese colonial rule. I Shankar Hari Kamat Mhamai is confident that from A.D. 1775-1925, it was one of the most well known country trading house between China to Lisbon and Bengal to Brazil. The rich treasure trove of Mhamai Kamat house papers preserved at Porvorim’s Xavier Centre of Histoncal research (XCHR) offer ample proof of the family’s intercontinental, trans-oceanic trade network and their regional diplomatic influence. The family name is derived from the Goddess Mahamaya. The worship of the fearful Tantric goddess Mahamaya (along with goddesses Bhagawati and Mahalaxmi) began in Goa during the period of the Imperial Rashtrakutas and their feudatories ruling from ancient Chandrapur – the south Konkan Shilaharas in the 10th century. The Kamats of Guirdolim could have been settled during the Shilhara regime itself. At least for six centuries they were engaged in the management of the local Khazan lands and probably in small agro-horticultural commodity trade. Perhaps during this period they were exposed to the modi script which permits one to write at a faster speed without lifting the hand. The foundation of agriculture, mainly rice farming in Goa, dates back to 3500 years ago.
This book takes a look at the Kamat family intense trade activities and the diplomatic space they enjoyed in the 18’th and early 19’th centuries with the help of documentary evidence.
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| Author: | S K Mhamai |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | S K Mhamai |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
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