![]() ![]() Called ‘the Portuguese menace’ and associated by all Asians with a perfidious brutality,” writes historian Ellison B. ![]() “Of all the European traders, the Portuguese were least liked by the Indians. The Portuguese capture of Goa under Afonso de Alburquerque in 1510 marked the beginning of the most difficult phase of Portuguese-Mughal relations. ![]() The result of European contact with Mughals in the Deccan led to large scale clashes. When the Portuguese initiated trade practices in India in the fifteenth century, large parts of northern India was under Mughal rule and the Muslim power was trying its best to expand into the Deccan. “Given the strenuous relations between the Mughals and Portuguese, they would never dare to say that Akbar had a Christian wife,” says Correia. The most noteworthy document of Akbar’s reign, the Akbarnama written by Abul Fazl, makes no mention about her, nor is her existence acknowledged in the other great Mughal source, Al Badauni’s Muntakhab-ut-Tawarakh. While substantial amount of the matter is available on Akbar’s harem, it is a wonder why Mughal sources are completely silent on this particular union.
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