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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 ...
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]
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.
Liberation Day Hong Kong: Last Monday in August: 1945 Liberation from Japan, [7] celebrated between 1945 and 1996 (no longer a holiday as of 1997) Liberation Day (V-J Day 30 August) India: December 19 (Goa only) 1961 Liberation of Goa from Portugal: Goa Liberation Day Israel: 28 Iyar: 1967 Reuinfication of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War
As a writer and journalist, between 1942 and 1961, Jorge published about 16 flyers and books against the Portuguese government. In the 1940s, he worked for oHeraldo . [ 3 ] Following his release from jail in the early 1950s, Jorge moved to Bombay and began contributing to T. B. Cunha 's Konkani periodical, Azad Goem ( transl. Free Goa ).
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]
As President John F. Kennedy famously told his fellow Americans in his 1961 inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”
Vaman Balkrishna Naique Prataprao Sardesai (5 May 1923 – 6 May 1994) was an Indian poet, freedom fighter and diplomat from Goa.Along with Libia Lobo Sardesai, whom he later married, he 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.