CONTENTS: Foreword: Sachchidanand Joshi, Introduction:P Teresa Pacheco Pereira, Prologue: Sudhir Lall, PART 1: PORTUGAL-MEMORY AND PERCEPTION: 1. Indo-Portuguese Art-Maria Joao Pacheco Ferreira, 2. Portugal and India: Notes about Cultural Exchanges during the Sixteenth Century-Joao Paulo e Costa, 3. A Fragment At the MNAA: An Exceptional Piece of Embroidery-Teresa Pacheco Pereira, 4. Colchas-Value beyond Trade-Luis Frederico Dias Antunes, 5. Fiber, dyes and Mordant analysis in Indian Bedspreads of 16th to 18th centuries-C Serrano, T Pereira, A Seruya and A Lopes, 6. Battle Scenes on an Indo-Portuguese Textile: An Interpretative Approach-Francisco Sousa Lobo, Vitor Luis Gaspar Roderigues, 7. Ships and the Sea found in Indo-Portuguese Colchas at the Museu de Arte Antiga-Jose Manuel Malhao Pereira, 8. Chinese Textiles in India (16th-17th Centuries): Their Circulation and Possible Production in India-Maria Joao Pacheco Ferreira, 9. To See and be Seen-The Portuguese in Asia during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries-Alexandra Curvelo, 10. Notes on the Production of Textiles by Augustinian Nuns at the Convent of Santa Monica in Goa: Models, Replicas and Hybridism, PART 2: THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: THE MEETING OF CULTURES: 11. Roman contact on the West Coast-A P Jamkhedkar, 12. The Mangalorean Catholic Community-its Lusitanian Legacy-Michael Lobo, 13. Christian Tradition on the West Coast-Paul Manalit, 14. Textiles in Indian Literature, Epigraphs and Art-Shrinivas V Padigar, 15. Early notices of West Coast Textiles and Costume along with some observations on the Shimpi community-A P Jamkhedkar, 16. Jainism in the South India-Lotika Varadarajan and A Sundara, 17. The Zoroastrian community on the West Coast-Pheroza J Godrej, 18. Portuguese Trade Monopoly of Indian Ocean and its Impact on Bijapur Sultnate (16th-17th Centuries)-M A Nayeem, 19. Medieval Deccan Architecture-K K Muhammed, 20. The Visual Context: An Introduction-Archana Shastri, 21. Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cultures of Dakshina Kannada: Antiquity of Embroidery-A Sundara, 22. Indian Influence on Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Goa-K K Muhammed.