| Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Chapter Author | Page No. |
| From Biography to History : An Introduction | Sanjay Subrahmanyan | 9 |
| Diamonds, Horses and the Cross: Friar Luis do Salvador, First Missionary and Portuguese Ambassador in Vijayanagar | Jorge Manuel Dos Santos Alves | 27 |
| A Man of Geat Credit in Those Lands: Miguet Ferreira, The Mutineers of the Coromandel Coast and the Estado do Inda | Jorge Flores | 55 |
| Joao Machado: The Travails of a Deportee in Asian Lands | Maria Augusta Lima Crza | 95 |
| A Man between Two Worlds: Diogo Pereira The Malabarian | Luis Filipe Reis Thomaz | 121 |
| The Estado da Inida and the Young Nobleman Soldier: the Case of Dom Fernando de Noronha | Anthony Disney | 199 |
| Quisling or Cross-Culture Broker? Notes on the Life and World of Dom Martinho de Alemao Prince of Arakan | Sanjay Subrahmanyan | 221 |
| Sebastiao lopes Lobato: From Soldier to Ouvidor-Great of India | Vitor Luis Gaspar Rodrigues | 253 |
| Dom Antonio Taveira da Neiva Brum da Silveira reformer of the Archbishopric of Goa | Maria de Jesus dos Martires Lopes | 271 |
| Antonio Coelho Guerreiro: Merchant, Bureaucrat and Govrnor | Artur Teodoro de Matos | 285 |
| From otivenca to peking: Manoei de Saldanha and the Vagaries of Restoration Fortune | John E. Wills Jnr. | 295 |
