Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "بھارت میں چینی قوم" in Urdu language version.
respectable families for sale s slaves in India.36 Chinese slaves and domestic servants were for the most part kidnapped from their villages when they were young, and sold to the Portuguese by native pimps. Jean Mocquet in his book Old China Hands records that the Portuguese were particularly desirous of secur-
account of Golden Goa (with the gilding off) a century later, stayed "in a tavern kept by a Chinese, who are white, Platter-fac'd, and Little-eyed, tolerated on account of embracing Christianity.
Some of these wants and strays found themselves in queer company and places in the course of their enforced sojourn in the Portuguese colonial empire. The Ming Shih's complain that the Portuguese kidnapped not only coolie or Tanka children but even those of educated persons, to their piratical lairs at Lintin and Castle Peak, is borne out by the fate of Barros' Chinese slave already
or Viceregal decree promulgated by Matthias de Albuquerque in مارچ 1595. The preamble of this Alvara states that the Chinese had made many and grievous complaints that the Portuguese of Macao were in the habit of kidnapping or buying Chinese, both for use as domestic servants as well as
As early as 1519, the Portuguese were accused of kidnapping children, many of them from respectable families, for sale as slaves in India. It was even alleged in the Ming-shih that they roasted and ate them for food. Joao de Barros
It has been suggested that the import of slaves into Goa was in the sixteenth century largely from Bengal, China, and Japan, and later from East Africa -- (De Souza 1979: 124--5)۔ These three sources -- the Far East, Bengal, and East Africa -- certainly account for the bulk of the slaves to be found in early seventeenth-century Goa. Consider the household of Garcia de Melo, an important fiscal official, who was arrested for fraud in 1611; when an inventory of his household goods was taken, they were found to include nineteen slaves, six from Bengal (including three eunuchs, or capados)، six from China, and seven from East Africa (AHU, Cx. 1, doc. 101)۔ All of the slaves had been converted, and possessed only Christian names -- not surnames (indicating their lowly social status)۔
These Chinese slaves and domestic servants were for the most part kidnapped from their villages when they were young, and sold to the Portuguese by native pimps. The French traveller Mocquet, writing in the second decade of the
we meet with a surprisingly frequent number of references to Chinese wayfarers or sojourners in India Portuguesa. One Chinese slave who was taken by Malabar pirates in his youth, subsequently became a terrible scourge to his late masters, as the right hand man of the famous Moplah pirate Kunhali. His eventual conqueror in 1600, the great Captain
and said to have been slave to a Portuguese, before he was captured in his youth and brought before Kunhala, who took such a fancy to him that he entrusted him with everything. He was he most fanatical Moslem and enemy of the Christian faith along the whole Malabar coast. For when prisoners were taken at sea and brought to him, he invented the most fiendish tortures ever seen, with which he martyred them."
Kunhali and Chinale were for years the greatest scourge of the Portuguese in the India seas. They made such effective depredations against Lusitanian shipping that the former assumed the high
