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    Annexation of Goa was the process in which the Republic of India annexed the Portuguese State of India, the then Portuguese Indian territories of Goa...
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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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  • 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 was the son of Sardar Bahadur...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Erlic Pinto (category Victims of helicopter 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    administration's Polícia do Estado da Índia (State of India Police), disbanded after the annexation of Goa by India in 1961. Until 1946, the police services...
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  • century, with the creation of the first university courses by the Portuguese Empire. However, it was only after the annexation of Goa that the process was consolidated...
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    the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa, many ethnic Portuguese living in Goa, as well as Goan assimilados and mestiços or Luso-Indians fled Goa for Portugal,...
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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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  • the Annexation of Goa. Native Goans are outnumbered by non-Goans in Goa, but Christianity remains prevalent in the state, with a higher percentage of Christians...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Chief of Naval Staff, appointed on 22 April 1958. The first involvement of the Navy in any conflict came during the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa with...
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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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  • serials depicting aspects of historical wars. The films included here are set in the time period from 1945 to 2001, or from the start of the Cold War until it...
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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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  • surviving only that of Goa. During that period, it produced some 1,327 doctors and 469 pharmacists. During the military annexation of Goa, undertaken 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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