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    The Annexation of Goa was the process in which the Republic of India annexed the State of India, the then Portuguese Indian territories of Goa, Daman and...
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    limits. After the annexation of Goa, the former Portuguese colony became part of the Goa, Daman and Diu union territory. In 1987 Goa achieved full statehood...
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    series of diplomatic talks with the Portuguese. After the talks failed, the then-Government of India chose the military option for the annexation of Goa. Various...
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    of defence. He was significantly involved in the annexation of Goa. He resigned after the debacle of the 1962 China War but remain a close friend of Nehru...
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    century after the Annexation of Goa and of the Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Goa, Daman and Diu were jointly administered until 1987, when Goa was granted statehood...
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    history Battle of Goa (1638) Annexation of Goa Gune, Vithal Trimbak (1979) Gazetteer of the Union Territory Goa, Daman and Diu: Goa (Goa) Nayak, K.D (1968)...
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    Annexation of Goa in 1961. Daman and Diu were administered as part of the union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu between 1961 and 1987. After the Goa Opinion...
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  • Erlic Pinto (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in India)
    operations during the Annexation of Goa. Erlic Pinto was born on 29 June 1921 into the Pinto do Rosario family of Porvorim, Goa. His brothers Fausto and...
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  • Shaitan Singh (category Recipients of the Param Vir Chakra)
    princely state of Jodhpur was merged into India. He took part in operations in the Naga Hills and also in the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa. During the Sino-Indian...
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    fought in various wars such as the Annexation of Goa and was famed in his role in the 1962 Sino-Indian War and the retreat of the Bomdila Pass. He passed away...
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    India–Portugal relations (category Bilateral relations of India)
    that led to a war between two countries which resulted in the Indian Annexation of Goa in 1961. Portugal refused to recognise Indian sovereignty over the...
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    Velha Goa (Old Goa). This was the beginning of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa that would last for four and a half centuries, until its annexation by India...
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  • superstar Amitabh Bachchan. History of Goa Portuguese India Annexation of Goa Some of Goa's independence activists, as seen in Goa State Museum Anthony D'Souza...
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    in 1961 following the annexation of Portuguese India, with Maj Gen K P Candeth as its first Military Governor. The Goa portion of the territory was granted...
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    Panaji (redirect from Capital of Goa)
    the rest of Goa and the former Portuguese territories after the Indian annexation of Portuguese India in 1961. It became a state-capital on Goa's elevation...
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    control of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1954. Finally, the rest of the overseas territory was lost in December 1961 with the Indian Annexation of Goa under...
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  • Empire. However, it was only after the annexation of Goa that the process was consolidated, with the University of Mumbai establishing a Centre for Post-Graduate...
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    50th Parachute Brigade (India) (category Brigades of the Indian Army)
    awarded the Maha Vir Chakra posthumously. The brigade took part in the annexation of Goa along with 17th Indian Infantry Division. Although the 50th Parachute...
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    the Indian government decided to attack the Portuguese colony of Goa after years of disagreement between New Delhi and Lisbon. The Indian Air Force...
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  • of India's blockade of Goa in 1955. In the wake of Portugal's defeat and unconditional surrender to India following the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa...
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  • A. G. Rangaraj (category Date of birth not in Wikidata)
    of 1947-48, the Korean War and the Annexation of Goa in a military career spanning 2 decades. Rangaraj was born in Arcot, Tamil Nadu, then a part of the...
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    V. K. Krishna Menon (category Alumni of the Inns of Court School of Law)
    such as Congo Crisis, Annexation of Goa, and Sino-Indian War. During his tenure as defence minister, India saw establishment of domestic military-industrial...
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    The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman...
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    the Indian annexation of Goa, the Indian government has changed the Portuguese names of many places and institutes. There is a department of Portuguese...
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    in Goa by the 1960 census carried out by the Portuguese. The massive influx of non-Goan immigrants from other states of India since the Annexation of Goa...
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    Dabolim Airport (redirect from Goa Airport)
    destinations. During the Annexation of Goa, in December 1961, the airport was bombarded by the Indian Air Force with parts of the infrastructure being...
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    Newspapers.com. "The annexation of Goa". Retrieved 1 August 2016. "Spain's forgotten African war of 1957". elnacional. "The central ceremony of the Malvinas war...
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    Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (category 1963 establishments in Goa, Daman and Diu)
    India. It was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961. In the first elections held after the Annexation of Goa by India,...
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  • Goans (redirect from People of Goa)
    to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese...
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  • Old Goa (Konkani: Pornnem Gõy; Adlem Gõy; Portuguese: Velha Goa, lit. ''Old Goa'') is a historical site and city situated on the southern banks of the...
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