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BOUCHON (Geneviève). MAMALE de Cananor: Un Adversaire de l'Inde Portugaise (1507-1528). Genéve, Paris. 1975. - BOUCHON (Geneviève) MAMALE de Cananor: Un Adversaire de l'Inde Portugaise (1507-1528) . Genéve, Paris: Librairie Droz, 1975. XXVI, 228 pp.: il.; 250 mm. A monographic study on Mamale of Cannanore, a Muslim merchant-regent who dominated maritime trade from the port of Cannanore on the Malabar Coast and established himself as one of the main adversaries of Portuguese expansion in the Indian Ocean between 1507 and 1528. Geneviève Bouchon, based on Portuguese and Arabic sources, reconstructs the journey of this ”ruler of the sea” and the commercial and political rivalry that pitted Cannanore against Cochin and Portuguese dominance on the west coast of India, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of the Portuguese presence in Malabar, attentive to the resistance of local powers. A seminal work for the study of the State of India in the first half of the 16th century, later translated into English under the title 'Regent of the Sea': Cannanore's Response to Portuguese Expansion, 1507-1528 (Oxford University Press, 1988). ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate