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Accepted Paper:

A Persianate World: Persian, Indo-Persian and Portuguese medical interactions in the modern period  
Pedro Prata Andrade (Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto)

Paper short abstract:

In this paper I explore several episodes of contact and mutual influence between the Persianate medical culture of Deccan and Mughal India and the Portuguese medical practitioners of the Estado da Índia.

Paper long abstract:

In the Mughal Empire and in all of the major Deccan Sultanates numerous Persian physicians practiced and took prominent court positions, having a notable influence on the Indo-Muslim medicine of Modern India. As a result of the intense relations between the Portuguese Estado da Índia and mainly Bijapur, Ahmadnagar and the Mughal Empire this Persianate medical milieu contacted in several pivotal moments with Portuguese medical practitioners of different origins and backgrounds in a reciprocal exchange of practices and knowledge.

In this article those interactions are explored, highlighting Garcia de Orta and his alleged incursions into Ahmadnagar.

Panel P10
Medical knowledge and transfer in the colonies
  Session 1