Timoji

Timoji Salve (also Timoja or Timmayya)

aguazil

of the city, for a short time.

Background

Since the 14th century the

Anjediva (modern Anjadip)

Island, with two thousand mercenaries under his command and at least fourteen ships.

Relations with the Portuguese

He met

Battle of Diu, Timoji met the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya and offered him rich tribute. He then prompted the Portuguese to conquer Goa

, the main port for the horse trade. The city had been conquered from Vijayanagar by the Bahmani Sultans in 1469, and passed to Bijapur. In late 1509, the remains of the Mamluk fleet defeated in the battle of Diu had taken refuge there.

In 1510 the new governor

Sultanate of Bijapur with the support of Timoji.^[4] On November, in a second strike, Albuquerque conquered Goa with a fleet fully renovated^[5] and about 300 Malabarese

reinforcements from Cannanore.

They regained the support of the native population, although frustrating the initial expectations of Timoji, who aspired to gain the city. Afonso de Albuquerque rewarded him by appointing him chief "

mint

in the East, after complaints from merchants and Timoji about the scarcity of currency.

Timoji was put in command of the native troops loyal to the Portuguese. However, he soon was relieved of his command due to his refusal to follow orders. The command of the native troops was given to a pretender to the throne of Honavar, and Timoji returned to piracy.

Timoji was made prisoner after a raid, and died by opium poisoning soon after being taken to the Vijayanagar capital. His wife and children, however, returned to Goa where Albuquerque arranged for their upkeep.

References

^ Not to be mistaken for Timoji Nayak, a VOC's broker later, circa 1678, see [1]
^ The book of Duarte Barbosa By Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, Mansel Longworth Dames
^ ^a ^b ^c Bhagamandala Seetharama Shastry, Charles J. Borges, "Goa-Kanara Portuguese relations, 1498-1763" p. 34-36
^ * Kerr, Robert (1824). A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. (volume 6, I chapter)
^ Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580, p. 253, Diffie, Winius 253, Diffie, Winius

Bibliography

Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de História do descobrimento e conquista da Índia pelos portugueses (full text in Portuguese).
Geneviéve Bouchon, "Inde découverte, Inde retrouvée (1498-1630) Études d'histoire indo-portugaise"
ISBN 972-8462-07-7

Bailey, Diffie, "Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415–1580", p. 250-251, University of Minnesota Press, 1977,
ISBN 0-8166-0782-6

Bhagamandala Seetharama Shastry, Charles J. Borges, "Goa-Kanara Portuguese relations, 1498-1763" p. 34-36, Concept Publishing Company, 2000,
ISBN 81-7022-848-4
,

Charles Ralph, "The Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415–1825", p. 47, Hutchinson 1969,
ISBN 0-09-131071-7 [2]

Duarte Barbosa, Mansel Longworth Dames, (1518) "The book of Duarte Barbosa: an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants", Asian Educational Services, 1989,
ISBN 81-206-0451-2

[1] Not to be mistaken for Timoji Nayak, a VOC's broker later, circa 1678, see [1]

[2] The book of Duarte Barbosa By Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, Mansel Longworth Dames

[Bhagamandala_Seetharama_Shastry_p._34-36-3] Bhagamandala Seetharama Shastry, Charles J. Borges, "Goa-Kanara Portuguese relations, 1498-1763" p. 34-36

[4] * Kerr, Robert (1824). A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. (volume 6, I chapter)

[5] Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580, p. 253, Diffie, Winius 253, Diffie, Winius

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