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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. 1961 Indian military operation This article is about the Indian annexation of Goa. For the conquest by Portugal in 1510, see Portuguese conquest of Goa. "Operation Vijay (1961)" redirects here. For the 1999 Indian operation, see Kargil War. See also: Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...
Libia "Libby" Lobo Sardesai (born 25 May 1924) is an Indian independence activist and lawyer from Goa.Along with Vaman Sardesai, whom she later married, she ran an underground radio station, Voice of Freedom, that transmitted across Portuguese Goa from 1955 to 1961, advocating the cause of the Goan independence movement. [1]
2011 Indian postage stamp dedicated to the golden jubilee of Goa Liberation. Goa was annexed by the Indian Army on 19 December 1961 after 451 years of Portuguese rule. [8] The movement for independence in the 19th century in India had a smaller impact in Goa as well, with a few residents of participating in Satyagraha up to the 1960s.
In 1961, India proclaimed that Goa should join India "either with full peace or with full use of force". In August 1961, India began military preparations. Following Nehru's statement on 1 December 1961, that India would "not remain silent" in relation to the Goan situation, Indian troops were stationed close to the Goan border. [8]
The Goan People's Party (GPP) is the name given to a historical political grouping that struggled for the liberation of Portuguese India. [1] [2] [3]The Goan Peoples Party was formed by George Vaz, Berta de Menezes Bragança and Divakar Kakodkar in 1949, after a split in the National Congress (Goa) over ideologies.
In 1959 and 1960, she received the Lady Tata Memorial Trust scholarship to continue her research. [2] She thus made important contributions in the research of cancer. [7] She is known for her work in identifying a cure for cobra venom, getting interested in the topic by the high number of incidents of snake bites in Goa.
Menezes Bragança and other Goan Communists, like Gerald Pereira and George Vaz, began working with the Goan peasants soon after the Liberation of Goa, forming the Shetkari Paksh (Farmers' Party). In the 1963 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election , they did not contest with their Communist symbols but instead contested as a political ...
History of Goa (1961–present) (2 C, 7 P) M. ... The Goa Inquisition; Goa Liberation Day; Goa Revolution Day; Gomanta kingdom; Gopakapattana; MS Gripsholm (1924) I.