27 Facts About Portuguese India

State of India, referred as the Portuguese State of India or simply Portuguese India, was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.

The capital of Portuguese India served as the governing centre of a string of military forts and trade posts scattered all over the Indian Ocean.

At the time of the dissolution of the British Raj in 1947, Portuguese India comprised three administrative subdivisions, sometimes referred to collectively as Goa: namely Goa which included Anjediva; and Daman, which included the exclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Dio districts.

One Portuguese India accompanied the fishermen to the port and met with a Tunisian Muslim.

But, the Portuguese India were unable to pay the prescribed customs duties and price of his goods in gold.

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In 1502, the Portuguese India built a trade post in Pulicat because its location at the mouth of a lagoon made it a great natural harbor.

Portuguese India bombarded the city and captured several rice vessels.

Portuguese India decided to send his son Lourenco de Almeida with 6 ships, who destroyed 27 Calicut vessels in the harbour of Quilon.

Portuguese India encouraged the settlement of his soldiers and their marriage to native women.

Orfas do Rei, were orphaned Portuguese India girls patronised by the King, and sent to overseas colonies to form marital alliances with either Portuguese India settlers or natives of high status.

In 1520, the Portuguese India extended their dominion over the town of Rachol, as in that year, Krishnadevaraya captured the Rachol Fort and delivered it to the Portuguese India, in exchange for mutual defence pact against the Deccan Sultanates.

The Luz Church in the Mylapore neighbourhood of Madras was the first church that the Portuguese India built in the area in 1516, the Sao Tome or San Thome shrine was rebuilt by them 1522.

The territory of Portuguese Bombay had its city centre in and around the Bassein Fort; but was subject to the viceroy in the capital of Velha Goa in south Konkan, along with other colonies in the Indian subcontinent, such as Portuguese Ceylon and Portuguese Chittagong.

Goa, Daman and Diu as well as Anjediva, were retained because a fleet of Portuguese India Armadas arrived from Lisbon, bearing a newly appointed viceroy.

Portuguese India forces had been given orders to either defeat the invaders or die.

In 1503, the Portuguese India unloaded at Lisbon 30,000 quintals of spices, more than what the Venetians introduced in the European marked through Alexandria in Egypt.

The overwhelming bulk of commodities imported to Europe by the Portuguese India consisted of black pepper, which after 1520 was declared an official Crown monopoly.

The Portuguese acquired most of their pepper in Kerala or Kanara in India.

For most of the century, the Portuguese India secured an overwhelming share of the pepper imports into Europe, supplying 75 per cent or more of Europes pepper.

Portuguese India Company was established in 1628, however with the Crown being its only major shareholder, it was liquidated five years later.

Portuguese India trade was greatly reduced by the war with the Dutch VOC, with whom a peace treaty was signed in 1663.

Inter-Indian Portuguese convoys continued, mainly with Gujarat, Porto Novo and Madras.

Many Indo-Portuguese India merchants became deeply involved and prominent in French Pondicherry, Danish Tranquebar and especially British Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, Portuguese India Jews being linked to the diamond trade in Madras.

Portuguese India harboured a society that was officially Christian and European but influenced by the non-European setting into which it was inserted.

Portuguese India living in Asia or east-Africa were generally more accepting of non-Christian beliefs and practices than their countrymen from Europe or Catholic clergy generally approved.

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Portuguese India postmarks are known from 1854 when a post office was opened in Goa.

Stamps of Portuguese India were first used on 29 December 1961, although the old stamps were accepted until 5 January 1962.