Remember, Sri Lanka and the USSR helped India in United Nations while the US, the UK, Portugal and other countries were against India. My great granduncle Prof. Gunapala Malalasekera was the ambassador to United Nations representing the Dominion of Ceylon(now Sri Lanka) in that time.

So technically we have actually won a war against a European nation😂

The role of Egypt's President at the time -Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser should also be discussed. The Portuguese were a NATO founder member. Few people know that the Portuguese fleet was supported by American and European ships carrying 10,000 soldiers and a lot of heavy weaponry, was headed to India. However Colonel Nasser from Egypt was thankful of India's previous support in the 1956 Suez crisis and didn't allow them to pass the Suez canal.Egypt was on friendly terms with India and the USSR at the time. Because of these delayed reinforcements the balance tilted in India's favour.

Being a Goan this gave me Goosebumps

Good to see that the ego was bloody portugal was crushed by powerful Indian Armed forces 👍👌

its very depressing as a goan knowing that a lot of indian don't even know about the history of goa and just see it a holiday destination to this day.

So India just called NATO a joke in 15 different languages.

Thanks for valuable information! At one time Portuguese were at 13-15 cities of India including Bombay, Hugli,Cochin, which were later under British, Dutch & French. Also Portugese were at 4-6 cities in Sri Lanka..

Jai Parshurama Kshetra Goa is Konkan Kashi, the Varanasi of the coast, not a land to be occupied by colonialists. Our Konkani and Marathi ancestors gave their blood to liberate Goa for 450 years. Tribute to their sacrifices and Indian Army's support

I can't believe that people believe in satyagraha even after 1947. It was the longest and most ineffective form of protest against a violent rule.

Ironic Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Goa , a ship bearing his name was destroyed during the liberation . My uncle was an artillery officer in support of Sikh infantry . According to him the Portuguese soldiers were very undisciplined and poorly trained .

Goa part of india. Long life india. From malaysia.

Pretty simple and easy win for india

Applause to all the activists and freedom fighters who eventually liberated first India and then later Goa

and in just 48 hours Goa was free..!!! Sounds very easy then it was Actually.

My moms dad went to celebrate it in the rally held in panjim city that day,her uncle was a freedom fighter, brutally tortured by the Portuguese, when they were arrested for hoisting the tricolor

It's a perfect example of how Indians come together irrespective of Thier ideaologies ..as we see a completely contrary situation today the leaders from RSS Congress, samyuktha socialist party Jana Sangh. Everyone extended their support and sacrifice..the tale of liberation of beautifull feeling of oneness.!!

INDIA🥰🥰

There are some morons down in comment section who are siding Portuguese over india , to them the more you hate the more we gonna be going on the path of great. Salute to the freedom fighters of Goa . Jai hind Vande matram.

my grandfather was part of the contingent that invaded goa

The end made me emotional 😫thank you for showing me this forgotten history of goa

Never doubt the prowess of Indian army

Now Goans regret about it. Don't show it on face but it's there in their minds

INDIA WON

I LOVE MY INDIA

Now Portuguese has less than half of GDP of one indian state of Maharashtra 😂

Only few people know that Mumbai was also a Portugal Colony which their king gave to the British in Form of Dowry

India had shown enough patience with Portuguese they were left with no choice! I even wonder that Portugal ordered their troops to fight till death -- Much shameful act of a government asking its people to die in a loosing battle. British and French left peacefully. Portuguese administration were just stubborn left no other choice for Indians!

Bharata❤️

It took 48 hrs for Indian Army to conquer Goa, but 14+ years for Govt. to allow them..Anyway Happy Independence Day, GOA!

Very nice video which gives a lot of information in short video

The people who supporting Portuguese . 1) do you know Goa inquisition by Portuguese. 2) millions of hindu were killed or converted into Christian. 3) ppl don't have freedom to their religions rituals.my question do u freedom now?? 4) Goan Christan was in good condition,what about Hindus living their.

Being goan this gives me goosebumps

U forgot Daman and Diu

RIP LATA DIDI ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Lessen: Never ever do the mistake of provoking India!

China should've done this to Hong Kong in the 50s.

From the Goan perspective, they didnt wish to remain under Portugal but weren't exactly fully on board about becoming a part of India either. Plus there was a division on religious lines. Goan Catholics, who made up the majority of the state, during that time (around 60%) wanted to either remain under Portuguese rule but with more self government or the same under Indian rule. Hindu Goans, who made up around 25% of the state, were more keen to join India fully and quite a significant group was even keen to merge with Maharashtra. To complicate matters, Portugal itself was being ruled by a dictator, which made the entire decolonization process even more difficult, as he made it clear that no land ruled by the Portuguese anywhere across the globe was going to be given away. Nehru could have made a deal with the Portuguese, like the Chinese did with Macau. In the long run, it would have benefitted India, Portugal and Goa. But by invading the state and the Portuguese having no resolve to fight (it was over in 48 hours), it made India look like the aggressor, even if there was justification to invade. India was at the time, internationally touting the Gandhian principles of non-violence and even led the Non-Aligned movement. Before invading Goa, JFK warned Nehru, that while America would back India, it was going to be a dangerous gamble for the Indians, as internationally the invasion might be used as an excuse by countries keen to grab border lands that India disputed. Goa was taken back by India in 1961. China used this attack as proof that the "non-violent" message Nehru had fostered was a scam and then invaded India in 1962, claiming they were taking back historical land belonging to China, by annexing Aksai Chin. That is the real legacy of the annexation of Goa

Goa is and was part to India from thousands of years. How a nation can occupied it's own territory.Its was occupied by foreign nation and needed to get free. Thanks to Indian military who fought for the end of colonialism of Portugal.

Lol 48 hrs!

I strongly recommend a monument/memorial to be constructed in the honor of those native Goan Hindus, who lost their lives, were tortured and had their properties burnt and destroyed and were treated like third-class citizens during Portuguese inquisition from 1560s to 1820s. This memorial must be build in Old Goa, where it all started.

Insane levels of Stockholm Syndrome in the comments. I'm from Kochi in Kerala, which used to be the first factory as well as the seat of Portuguese power in India. The kind of atrocities which the Portuguese carried out on the lands of the feudal chiefs as well as the major kings in Kerala is mind-numbing. Afonso de Albuquerque only had enough of Kerala and Kochi after the Zamorin of Calicut massacred the invading army including Marshal Ferdinando Coutinho and shifted their base to Goa. Till then it was a long, bloody war without a victory to either side. I wonder if the Zamorin wasn't victorious and had Albuquerque stayed back, would our Malayalis be as brainwashed as these folks writing pro-Portugal comments below?

This is the land of our forefathers. This is the land of our great Kadamba dynasty. Some Catholic fanatics don't even know their own history.

As a Maharashtrian I am glad India liberated our land

All this people from Portugal commenting should know in the current scenario India is better in every way than Portugal and they can continue whingeing about it but it won't make any difference... P.s I m weak in English language

I can see most of the comments who say Goa was invaded by India are mostly some assol who are still misguided. Goa was part of India since ages and part of Kadamba rule then invaded by Adil Shah and then Portugese who came in as merchants. Marath Rulers Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Bajirao tried to teach lesson to Portuguese and stopped them from expanding. Chimaji Appa managed to win Vasai (Basin) and free it from Portuguese occupation. Sadly later Brits with their evil design ,invaded india. With their atrocious policies India went down to dust. Countless Indian heroes sacrified their lives to free India from Brits in 1947. For Goa It was still very late 1961 that India waited with Nehurs stupid Policies. Hundreds Indians scarified their life for Goa Mukti Sangram. Sadly heros like Madhav Ranade who were in Portuguese Jail for revolutionary freedom movment in Goa even after 1961. Indian government did not try but Legendery classical singer Sudhir Phadke, Annadurai of Tamilnadu tried to free him and finally was released in 1969. Those who enjoyed Portuguese patronage can keep cursing but India is now re surged and will shine bright in horizon like in past with Dharma, Shashtra and Nyay.

I visited portugal recently and few colleagues ask me how it happened! I said fuck off and showed him this doc! Portugal now begs to India to escape from being bankrupt Life is a circle

Proud of my home country for liberating goa

Goa❤️ India❤️🇮🇳

Wow! Goa was part of Portugal for 450 years. India didn'tn even exist back then!

Goose bumps In the end

The longest 450 years ruled more than british just go ended in 48 hours

Now India can squeeze Portuguese within few minutes !

for the freedom of Goa Kannadigas have main rule, Karnataka Kesari Shri Jaganath rao Joshi entered Savantawadi with 3000 followers from Karnataka and Maharasthra towards freedom movement. when 8000 Indians enter Goa for freedom the most of them from Goa and Maharasthra. thousands of Kannadigas from Belagavi and Dharawad district getting Freedom fighters pension from Union Govt of India and Govt of Karnataka. There is no where mentioned the sacrifice Kannadigas in this video.

Why the word invaded??

Wat a voice

Why would you say oppressive Portuguese rule? Did the majority of the population say they were opressed or needed liberation?

India needs police reforms to end the criminalization of politics

Portugal considered Goa as part of Portugal,not as a colony.;that is the reason goans had equal rights for over a hundred years.Inquisiton is against heretics, that is, deviating catholics;it is not used for conversion ,as it is against members of the same religion.All said Goa is a natural part of India.

Hail india defeated Portugal. It is a small win for india on goa.

Now look the present situation Portugal... Lost somewhere in history And India emerging giant economy Such a shame to colonial European power

I prefer goa being a part of Portugal they have done much more than what India has for goa

never forget Inquisition of goa.....

India did not invaded but liberated Goa from the hands of cruel Portuguese who where responsible for forceful conversion of Goans into Christianity

we kannadigas fought for goa's liberation . our great Mysore lancers army send our troops to save life's of goan's from Portuguese. Karnataka land is used as armour factory , storing koth for freedom fighters of goa. but . today goans treat as foreigner's , goan's politicians treat us as slaves. this is India . in 1940 Mysore state is developed stare with highest GDP and economic growth in whole Asia with Japan . but now . our banks lost, our universities are just stolen. our dams are in endangered . our land is grabbed .

I think many goans miss the old times..

Why their is so much regional love in indian states

What happend after libaration.. Karnataka and maharastra was fighting to get goa...

I'm very shocked to see some of these comments made by fellow Indians to their own people using abusive language against Catholics saying that we should go back to Portugal?? grow up people move on! and yes this is a goan Catholic person who's commenting. stop sending hate to us this is why we still wish we were under the Portuguese rule. Viva Goa !!!

I think it was much of a struggle for indian forces to free Goa rather putting it into saying "IN JUST 48 HOURS GOA WAS FREE"

Being a goan, I would say Goa was annexed by India and not liberated

Languishing? Lol we were THRIVING

every goans commenting here are mostly christian and thinks that they are native goans bjt that's not true you people are Descendant of Portuguese people.. yes if a Hindu goan comment here like we want freedom from India that's something I have to believe.. but plzzz if Goans christian like Portuguese plzz leave India... plzzzz plzzz plzzz

नेहरु की शान्ती की निति से भारत 1962 का युद्ध चाइना से हारा

Why didn't NATO didn't do anything?

3:33 then and now BJP office location in Panaji :D

No india can conquer portugal in one missile

Oppressive!? Just because we had a dictator, you say we we had no right? Goa is Portuguese! Why would you say we were occupied, we were truly Portuguese! And in 1962, Goa was free?!

Happy !!!???

In 1960 there are 3 universities in Portugal with Medical Sciences: Coimbra, Lisbon and Goa. The Goans at those time are the economic elite of the Portuguese colonies. The Goan capital was know as the second Lisbon. How can some people said that the Portuguese are explorers and tirans?

Goa's struggle for freedom started way before India came into the picture. Those commenting on how peaceful it was in Portuguese Goa please go back to school and get your history sorted. I bet most dont even know the names of Goan Freedom Fighters. ✌️

When did the Indian Politicians fight for complete freedom then,that they would have fought for Goa.

How goans, pondy people income fared post independence.

My Country can be Greater Nepal indian ? Can you Return My country land indian ?

Jai bharat jai democracy jai secularism

Now GOA GONE ,goa lost its unique identity forever..after indian invasion and merger.. India cannot united, India &Pakistan, Bangladesh,Nepal , Myanmar, butan which was under them always , lost Aksai chin to China...and feel happy to invade small Goa ..

Nehru n Menon...only delayed Goan freedom....

Portugal ruled Goa with Peace & Security.Today just think what is happening in once Portugal ruled States-Robberies/Murders/Rapes.India Can't give any security to its citizens,just think why since 1980's Kashmiri's Youth is suffering from Pellets injuries & death's ,Khalistan fighting for independence,Goan's r suffering from outsiders who took Goan lands & their businesses,Gorkhas need Gorkhaland,Keralities need separate identity who doesn't recognise themselves as Indian as Kerala means God's own Country & they never say's they r indian they say Keralite.Is this not called Atrocities?Why blaming Portugal😡for all the Mess.

Goa was better with Portugal. It would gave been more developed.

we take what is ours ... the end.

The Portuguese inquisition of Goa is an often forgotten and unspoken event by the ‘secular’ circles of Indian historians, despite various historical records exposing the gross exodus of not just Hindus, but also Jews that had escaped Medieval Europe to take refuge in India. The Portuguese inquisition of Goa started when Vasco Da Gama returned to Portugal after he discovered the route to India via Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. Upon his return to Portugal in 1510, Gama told the Portuguese royals about the undiscovered route to India, which gave the Portuguese an opportunity to colonise the Western coast of India and particularly Goa. Pope Nicholas V soon issued a diktat which gave the kingdom of Portugal a monopoly on forcing Christianity upon the locals of the newly discovered areas (and mainly India), along with the monopoly to trade on behalf of the Roman Catholic Empire in Asia. Soon after, the Portuguese sent its troops to capture a portion of Goa and set up a colony in the coastal city. Aghast by the local traditions followed by Hindus, the Portuguese were angered by the locals following a religion other than Christianity and ordered all temples within the colony to be shut; this marked the beginning of the bloody Goan inquisition that comprised of gross human right violations and mass executions of the local Hindu, Jew and Muslim populations. In 1541, idol worship was forbidden in the Portuguese colony of Goa and over 350 temples were destroyed by the Portuguese soldiers. It had been officially declared that being a believer of any religion other than Roman Catholicism was forbidden for residents of Goa. The infamous Francis Xaviers and Martin Alfonso were sent to Goa by King John III of Portugal in 1542 to initiate the process of converting Goan residents to Roman Catholicism. On their arrival in Goa, they were enraged by the New Christians of Goa secretly practising their previous religions (either Judaism, Hinduism or Islam), while also upholding their Hindu values and traditions. A disturbed Francis Xavier wrote to King John III of Portugal on 16th May 1546 to impose inquisition on Goa in an attempt to ‘discipline’ the residents and make them follow Catholicism. The inquisition banned apostasy of Roman Catholics to Hinduism, Judaism or Islam, and banned the sale of books in the Konkani, Marathi, Sanskrit and Arabic languages. The use of Konkani was forbidden in the colony of Goa. The Inquisition particularly affected the New Christians of Europe from the Jewish community, who had fled to India during the Spanish Inquisition in an attempt to escape the imposition of Christianity and live amongst the Jewish community in India. They had come in search of a life of dignity where they could practise Judaism openly and not in hiding while pretending to be Christian. India was the only country in the world where Jews were given absolute freedom to practise their faith, especially under Hindu kingdoms. Upon the imposition of the inquisition in Goa, life became comparable to hell for the local Hindu population, who were often on the receiving end of persecution and were targeted in particular by the sadistic Christian missionaries. The Christian missionaries called the Hindus ‘uncultured’ and ‘savages’, who worshipped black idols ‘resembling demons’; the Christians took it upon themselves to force Hindus into leaving their religion and succumbing to Christianity. An inquisition office was thereby set up which aimed to discriminate against Hindus on all matters possible. Hindus were forbidden from holding any public office, inheriting their father’s property and testify as witnesses in courts. If a Hindu child was deemed to be an orphan by the colonialists, the child was ‘seized’ by the Society of Jesus (founded by the not-so-saintly Francis Xavier) and made to change his religion. Clear discrimination was seen in social life, where Hindus were forced to sign public documents only after Christians and couldn’t be clerks in village offices. In 1567, a law banning Christians from employing Hindus in the colony was introduced. (Ref: Teotonio R. De Souza, The Portuguese in Goa, pg 28-29). The inquisition office even questioned natives who were suspected of following their previous religions in private. Over a span of 214 years (1560-1774), 16,172 natives were questioned and often tortured for following a religion other than Roman Catholicism. To be questioned by the inquisition office, a mere rumour of practising idol worship in private or chanting a Hebrew prayer would suffice for the missionaries to drag the native to the office. Those convicted of following another religion were subjected to heinous punishments, including public flogging, being ‘put on the rack’, burnt on stakes and having one’s nails and eyes crushed by bloodthirsty missionaries. In some cases, entire villages were burnt with the women and children taken as slaves. Large wheels were used for torture, with those convicted of following Hinduism or Judaism being tied to the wheel and then spun, with almost every bone of the innocent Hindu or Jew being crushed. Hindu children were sometimes taken away from their parents and burnt in front of them, with the parent being tied and forced to witness his child being burnt alive until he accepts to convert to Christianity. Over 4,000 non-Christians were inflicted with such punishments during the course of the inquisition. In inspiration of the Muslim invaders, the missionaries imposed the Xenddi tax on the Hindu population, similar to the Jaziya tax. (Ref: Sarasvati’s Children: A History of the Mangalorean Christians, Alan Machado Prabhu, I.J.A. Publications, 1999, pg. 121) Amidst the Portuguese inquisition, a small group of Saraswat Brahmins managed to hide from the invading Portuguese colonialists and smuggled the famous Mangeshi shiv linga of Lord Shiva out of its original site in the Kushasthali Cortalim village and built the renown Mangeshi temple in Goa’s Priol village which belonged to the Hindu Kingdom of Sonde. The Portuguese ravaged homes destroyed the local culture and imposed a foreign religion on the local population. Hindus were deliberately targeted by the European invaders in an attempt to convert them to Christianity. Despite the barbarism used by the Europeans, Hinduism survived the attempts to erase it from Indian culture and continued to flourish after Goa was liberated by the Indian government in 1961. The Goan Inquisition is a disturbing reminder to Goan Hindus about their history and signifies the struggles undertaken by our ancestors to preserve our cultural identity.

Portuguese was much better then this present India Mafia Govt 🦠🦠

Well, some people clearly forgot the Inquisition of Goa and the second class nature racial, ethnic and religious minorities had to face during the Portuguese rule. Its astonishing to see people putting more stock in grandmother's tales than in actual written documents (I am talking of Charles Dellon's diary). Some people still want to think themselves as Portuguese - well and good, no problem with that. But if you are trying to justify the Portuguese atrocities and calling yourself a Portuguese (being an ethnic Goan), then we have got a problem dude, because it implies that your forefathers killed and maimed my forefathers and you are proud of that fact. Moreover, you want to leave and go to Portugal? Well, Godspeed friend, but guess what - in 60 years Europe has changed. If you think you will be a 'brown skin European', well, bad news for you friend, they are treating them nowadays as Asian immigrants (regardless of the last name). So either you are an Indian in India or an 'Asian immigrant' in Europe. N.B: My country is constitutionally secular country. The constitution and only the constitution alone has the final word in this matter. So, no matter whatever someone says that your original religion was xyz so you need to practice xyz not abc or pqr, those are just illiterate comments who are probably unaware of the existence of our constitution. The freedom to practice any religion and even to convert is a guaranteed fundamental right under the constitution. Anyone who thinks otherwise is clearly negligent in his/her duties as a citizen and cannot call himself/herself as a true Indian because he/she does not believe in its basic framework. Any hindrance in that matter is open to remedy by the court and enforceable by law.

Why so many negative comment s from goans

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Before British came in today india, there was not india. It was teritory of 600 more states. Then British started to colonized all sourrounded part which was named east india company. And india now a country. Freedom came all over the world after WWW2. Only 20 percent credit goesto mahatma gandhi.

Well me being a goan citizen i think goa was way better in the hands of Portugal but i wasn't born during that geat time but my grandmother and my neighbours great grandparents told me stories of how portuguese rule was, There was law and order and they didn't treat us like slave. when INDIA was british colony i read that Indians were treated like shit. The Portuguese shaped goa into a paradise after hearing all those stories i wish were still a Portuguese colony. I love my indians but now after seeing the direction the country is heading feel bad. Now there's corruptions in every corner of goa there are drugs brought in, the roads are not built properly even though if they are built properly the roads tend to go off on in one to two years, bribery, we cant eat beef cause they say this is nation of hindus and cow is their god and many other things. These type of things make me say goa was better in the hands of portuguese

Goa is part of India union Thanx to Nehru and Indian army

Goa not independent which belong to Portugal people can free travel to European Union

Wish Goa was merged into Portugal forever. Then today it would have been a much more prosperous state unlike the other wethered & teared India. The Goan politics has destroyed Goa. Eu amo Portugal..!!!😘💗