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ARTICLES RELATED TO History of Goa - Ancient History | | | |  History of Goa - Ancient History: Encyclopedia II - History of Goa - Ancient HistoryMahabharata refers to Goa as Goparashtra, ‘a nation of cowherds or of nomadic tribes’. Parshuram, the Hindu god, according to legend, flung his arrow on the coast and made the waters recede, thus founding the Konkan. The Southern Konkan was called Govarashtra. In ancient Indian texts in Sanskrit she is also known as Gopakapuri or Gapakapattana. This only corroborates the idea that Goa was a very prosperous State, since cattle was the criterion of wealth. The name Gomant for Goa also occurs in the said Indian epic Mahabharata and in the ...
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| | | | History of Goa - Ancient History: Encyclopedia II - History of Goa - Portuguese India In 1498, Vasco da Gama became the first European to set foot in India via a sea route. His successful mission led to other European powers seeking an alternate route to India as the traditional land routes were closed by the Turks. In 1510, the ruling Bijapur kings were defeated by the Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque, on request of a Hindu king, Timayya (Timoja). The Portuguese set up a base in Goa in their quest to control the spice trade. The city was made capital of the Portuguese Vice-Kingdom in Asia, and the other Portuguese po ...
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| | | | History of Goa - Ancient History: Encyclopedia II - History of Goa - After the Independence of India When India became independent in 1947, Goa remained Portuguese. The Indian government of Jawaharlal Nehru insisted that it, along with a few other minor Portuguese holdings, be turned over to India. Portugal, however, refused. France, which had also had small enclaves in India (most notably Pondicherry, see French India), gave them up. Portugal, however, amended its constitution to have Goa made a Portuguese province and refused to surrender it. In 1954, India assisted a few armed insurgents to take over the tiny land-locked enclaves of Dadr ...
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| | | | History of Goa - Ancient History: Encyclopedia II - History of Goa - Early Freedom Movement The first armed battle of independence of Goa from the Portuguese was fought by the Desais of Cuncolim in c1583. The Portuguese missionaries used to regularly come along with soldiers to forcibly convert the villagers. This resulted in small skirmishes, with both parties suffering casualties each time. Finally, the villagers, angered after some missionaries desecrated a local place of worship, slaughtered the invading party, including all the missionaries. This angered the Portuguese authorities, who formed a heinous plan, a method frequently used by the ...
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