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Interesting and nice pics! Thx jetsetter!
Portuguese troops in Goa, India - 1954
I do like these colonial photos........
Portuguese troops, West African rank & file, attending a special mass in the Church of Born Jesus.
Portuguese troops, West African rank & file, marching away from the Church of Born Jesus, after mass.
Portuguese troops, West African rank & file, attending a special mass in the Church of Born Jesus.
Goan customs guards leading invading "Satyagrahis" down the road into Goa, eventually delivering them to Goan police.
Marchers of Goa getting into provided bus, at invitation of Goan custom guards, then are driven into Goa to be handed over to police.
Portuguese customs guards at one of the borders between Goa & India, stopping marchers, searching their luggage.
Gov. Gen. of Goa Paulo Benard Guedes, leaving for the office.
Portuguese troops attending special mass in the church of Born Jesus in Old Goa.
A procession of Goan volunteers approaching the boarder between Goa & India.
Marchers on Goa encountering Goan Customs guards at the border.
Indo-Goan border, with Portuguese police officer, Goan customs guard at one of points by which Hindu nationalists might invade Goa.
Portuguese troops attending special mass in the church of Born Jesus in Old Goa.
Interesting and nice pics! Thx jetsetter!
Nice Church also!
Do you have any taken during the invasion by the Indian army?
Benny
Goan customs guard at one of points by which Hindu nationalists might invade Goa.LOL @ caption. How did the secular, Gandhist-inspired mass movement of Goanese protesting for union with India get termed 'Hindu nationalists'.Goan customs guards leading invading "Satyagrahis" down the road into Goa, eventually delivering them to Goan police.
Invaders were the Portuguese coming to India, not Indians peacefully marching into a bus. But the captions seem almost tongue-in-cheek in their ridiculous colonialist-style rhetoric, so I'm guessin the photojournalist knew exactly what was going on and happily reprinted the descriptions of the Gandhists the Portuguese hosts offered
SatyagrahaThose are very interesting photos though. Thanks for postingSatyagraha (Sanskrit: सत्याग्रह satyāgraha) is a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as "Mahatma" Gandhi). Gandhi deployed satyagraha in campaigns for Indian independence and also during his earlier struggles in South Africa. Satyagraha theory also influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. during the campaigns he led during the civil rights movement in the United States.
Nice pictures. There should be more pictures relating to invasion of Goa by India. The Portuguese surrendered easily without putting in much fight.
Sorry for not aware on it....
Today, Goa belong to whom...? India or still part Portugal.
Not entirely true. The Liberation of Goa also known as the Invasion of Goa or Portuguese-Indian War, codenamed Operation Vijay by the Government of India, was the Indian armed forces action that ended Portuguese rule in its Indian enclaves in 1961. The armed action, involving air, sea and land strikes for over 36 hours, ended 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa. 14 Indians and 31 Portuguese were killed in the fighting. The brief war drew a mixture of worldwide praise and condemnation. In India, the action was seen as a liberation while Portugal viewed it as aggression.Originally Posted by VAMAN
Nice pictures. There should be more pictures relating to invasion of Goa by India. The Portuguese surrendered easily without putting in much fight.
Yeup, 4200 portuguese against 120.000 Indians... now, that was a fair fight hen!?
Look like the same story in East Timor, but the world thinking it in the different way....
Except unlike in East Timor, the native Goans were fighting (well, Gandhicly peacefully resisting in any case) to re-unite with India and it was heavy handed action against the Goan freedom fighters by the Portuguese that led to the conflict in the first place. It was a war of aggression only in the context of the Cold War -- the first where a non-aligned nation used force to expel a colonial power out of native territory. It took place as a last resort, only after Portuguese dictator Salazar, though under intense popular Goan and Indian pressure, refused to follow the footsteps of the other remaining colonial powers in India and peacefully vacate Goa.
In any case one of the reasons the war took as long as it did was that both sides, both the Indians and the Portuguese did their best to minimize any casualties and collateral damage. It was actually a pretty gentlemanly conflict all around and one that was acknowledged even at the time to have almost a reluctant war, precipitated only because of the great power fantasies of Salazar. After the Carnation Revolution ousted the military regime brought democracy back to Portugal one of the first things they did was to formally recognize Goa as part of India, effectively saying 'yeah, our bad'. Relations did a 180 flip and are nowadays actually quite close between the two countries.
Last edited by rajkhalsa; 08-27-2009 at 04:52 AM.
Any war that's a fair fight is a war executed poorly.
Operation Vijay-->> End of Portuguese colonies in India.
December 1961, the Government of India adopted a plan called Operation Vijay ( Victory ) to liberate the Portuguese colonies in India. By 11 December 1961, Indian forces were placed at Belgaum, Vapi and Una, for attacks on Goa, Daman and Diu, respectively. Goa was originally a Portuguese colony after the British left India. The Portuguese refused to give up their colonies in-spite of repeated requests of India. The struggle was two fold. From within Goa and from the Indian Government outside Goa.The Portuguese were the first European power to arrive in India and the last to depart......
^^Prime-Minster Nehru vists INS Delhi before her voyage to Arabian sea. According to Indian intel the Portuguese have the naval defense of Goa, deployed four frigates each equipped with three 120mm guns and four multiple pompoms (automatic rapid firing guns), which patrolled the sea areas of all three enclaves. These ships were Afonso de Albuquerque, Bartholomeu Dias, Gonsalves Zarco and Joao de Lisboa.
^^INS Ranjeet making her course for Goa, The Naval task force was divided into four task groups - the Surface Action Group comprising Indian naval ships INS Mysore, INS Trishul, INS Betwa, INS Beas and INS Cauvery. The Carrier Task Group comprising of ships, INS Vikrant, INS Delhi, INS Kuthar, INS Kirpan, INS Khukri, INS Ranjeet and INS Rajput. The Mine Sweeping Group comprising of mine-sweepers INS Karwar, INS Kakinada, INS Cannonore and INS Bimilipatan and finally the Support Group comprising of the solo ship, INS Dharini..
^^INS Vikrant was deployed for operation Vijay !
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^^Sea Hawk are making Patrols 75 miles of goa, Their task was to counter any ship or airplane trying to escape from Goa....
^^ Sea Hawks making their patrols over Arabian sea. .
^^ Indian Airforce Deployed Gnats and hunter for Air-Superiority purpose !
^^Indian Air-Force`s Dassault Ouragans played a major role in providing close air support for ground troops !.
^^Indian Air Force`s Canberras acts as Strategic Bomber during entire operation !, Dec 18th, No.35 Squadron sent a massive wave of Canberras with 63,000 lbs of Bombs to attack Portuguese runways and other important facilities !
^^Attack in progress on Portuguese airfields and Radio station !
^^ After the Attack on Radio station and the runway..
^^Destruction of Portuguese ATC after the attack !
^^ After the destruction of portugease infrastructure 95% and the destruction of three protugease navel Ships, Indian Army`s 17 Infantry Division under Major General K.P. Candeth along with the 50th Para Brigade. Moves to carry out the capture of Daman, one infantry battalion - 1st Maratha LI - was assigned. Two battalions, 20th Rajput and 4th Madras, were assigned the task of taking over Diu..
^^ Indian Army`s Soldiers and officers in Panjim, Goa !.
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^^ The solemn ceremony of the Portuguese surrender in Panjim, Goa ! More than 4000 Portuguese troops of European origin laid down their arms. They were repatriated to Portugal after a few months.
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^^ Portuguese Air Force Flag captured by 7 Mahar during Operation Vijay.
^^General Pran Nath Thapar (sitting far right), Chief of Army Staff, with the Portuguese Governor General, Vassalo De Silva at a POW camp in Panjim, Goa..
Last edited by Kunal Biswas; 08-27-2009 at 06:52 AM. Reason: Better !!
Is that a M1917 Enfield rifle on the left?
Goa , Damão and Diu formed the "Portuguese State of India"(PSI) , Estado Português da India, which was "invaded and occupied" by India in December 1961.
India tried several times for peacefull negotiations with Portugal for the hand-over of those territories, but the Portuguese Dictator of the time, Oliveira Salazar, refused.
Portugal only recognized the sovereignity of India in those territories after the revoltuion of April 25th, 1974.
CoA of PSI
the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, sunk by in Indian Navy in Goa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRP_Afonso_de_Albuquerque
Fascinating pictures/history of a too little-known subject.First class thread gents,many thanks.
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