Indo-Portuguese Embroideries: Context, Art and History

Contents: Foreword/Sachchidanand Joshi. Introduction/P Teresa Pacheco Pereira. Prologue/Sudhir Lall. Part I: Portugal-Memory and Perception: 1. Indo-Portuguese art/Maria Joao Pacheco Ferreira. 2. Portugal and India: Notes about cultural exchanges during the sixteenth century/Joao Paulo e Costa. 3. A fragment at the MNAA: an exceptional piece of embroidery/Teresa Pacheco Pereira. 4. Colchas-value beyond trade/Luis Frederico Dias Antunes. 5. Fiber, dyes and mordant analysis in Indian bedspreads of 16th to 18th centuries/C Serrano, T Pereira, A Seruya and A Lopes. 6. Battle scenes on an Indo-Portuguese textile: An interpretative approach/Francisco Sousa Lobo, Vitor Luis Gaspar Roderigues. 7. Ships and the sea found in Indo-Portuguese Colchas at the Museu de Arte Antiga/Jose Manuel Malhao Pereira. 8. Chinese textiles in India (16th-17th Centuries): their circulation and possible production in India/Maria Joao Pacheco Ferreira. 9. To See and be seen-The Portuguese in Asia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries/Alexandra Curvelo. 10. Notes on the production of textiles by Augustinian Nuns at the Convent of Santa Monica in Goa: models, replicas and hybridism/Carla Alferes Pinto. Part II: The Indian Subcontinent: The Meeting of Cultures: 11. Roman contact on the West Coast/A P Jamkhedkar. 12. The Mangalorean Catholic community-its Lusitanian legacy/Michael Lobo. 13. Christian tradition on the West Coast/Paul Manalil. 14. Textiles in Indian literature, epigraphs and art/Shrinivas V Padigar. 15. Early notices of west coast textiles and costume along with some observations on the Shimpi community/A P Jamkhedkar. 16. Jainism in the South India/Lotika Varadarajan and A Sundara. 17. The Zoroastrian community on the West Coast/Pheroza J Godrej. 18. Portuguese Trade Monopoly of Indian Ocean and its Impact on Bijapur Sultnate (16th-17th Centuries)/M A Nayeem. 19. Medieval Deccan architecture/K K Muhammed. 20. The Visual Context: an introduction/Archana Shastri. 21. Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cultures of Dakshina Kannada: Antiquity of Embroidery/A. Sundara. 22. Indian Influence on Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Goa/K K Muhammed.