
Know Your City: Gujarat under Sultan Mahmud Begada, through the eyes of Portuguese writer Duarte Barbosa
Duarte Barbosa (circa 1480 – May 1, 1521) was a Portuguese writer and officer in India from 1500 to 1516. He served as a scribe at a Portuguese trading house in Kochi and was an interpreter of the local language, Malayalam. In 1519, Barbosa joined the …