The Portuguese Presence In India : Latter Day Thorns Amidst Tranquilities

<p>The author of this book hails from a Goan emigrant family and was born in BrIt'sh India and has had a rare exposure to BrIt'sh rule in India to the Portuguese presence in Goa and to independent India besides having lived in the United States for three years for post-graduate studies in engineering.</p><p>After Independence India raised objections to two forms of the Portuguese presence: (1) Portuguese governments patronage over certain Catholic dioceses which had been evangelized by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century a dispute which was quickly resolved by July 18 1969 and (2) the Portuguese political presence in Goa Daman Diu Dadra and Nagar Haveli which India claimed on grounds of geography and Portugal claimed on grounds of history and juridical superioritythe absence of any significant desire of the people to merge with India. </p><p>The author has been privy to a full set of diplomatic exchanges with India few other countries and within the Portuguese Government in four volumes published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lisbon an official de-classification on Goa and its dependencies 1947 to 1967 some of which have been extensively used in their complete text for better understanding in the book. </p>