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About the Book:-This work is in two volumes, and gives an account of India. It is an ethnographical study, and notices the geography, the people, the history, the customs, the trade, the religion, etc of India has seen through Portuguese eyes. At the time of the British Raj's dissolution in 1947, Portuguese India was subdivided into three districts located on modern-day India's western coast, sometimes referred to collectively as Goa: namely Goa; Damão, which included the inland enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli; and Diu. Portugal lost effective control of the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1954, and finally the rest of the overseas territory in December 1961, when it was annexed by India under the Nehru Government. In spite of this, Portugal only recognised Indian control in 1974, after the Carnation Revolution and the fall of the Estado Novo regime, by a treaty signed on 31st December 1974. The book has many illustrations, and photographs; as well as a map to delineate the subject in a proper way. This work is in the Portuguese language, and is a reprint of the 1923 edition.