How Goa, Daman & Diu Were Integrated With India

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Goa tomorrow and take part in celebrations organised to mark Goa’s liberation day. Although India gained independence from the British in 1947, Goa, Daman and Diu that were ruled by the Portuguese had to wait 14 years to be integrated with the Indian union. In this episode of ‘Simply Nitin’, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale explains the circumstances that led to ‘Operation Vijay’.
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[@onthefence5247]

An episode on how India managed to merge back Lakshadweep and perhaps Andaman Islands would be great.

[@sudeeplimaye4399]

Yes sir. Urgently needed please.

[@onthefence5247]

Imagine if India had not shown the spine to take back these territories - it would been like Africa today with US and European bases littered everywhere. In fact US and UK still have some bases in Indian Ocean like the Diego Garcia

[@basildza]

Yup, even worse than military bases, you would have constant local bickering that would prevent India from having enough stability to make a wider impact on the world stage. Just see the middle East for an example.

[@ramadevi8767]

And the credit goes to.....

[@ramadevi8767]

Sardar patel. The iron man of India

[@dnivaranamaratis]

Sadly, even Nitin does not talk about 1967 where the same Sagat Singh destroyed the Chinese in Sikkim.

[@utkarshmishra1928]

Beautifully narrated story and my tributes to all the unsung heroes for their immense sacrifices to the nation!!!!

[@RajKaTaj]

Its wrongly mentioned that Vasco was out to discover America but landed in India, the story is instead that Columbus was out to discover a route to India but landed in America and hence ended up naming native Americans as Indians.

[@deepranjan8634]

🎊🇮🇳HAPPY DAMAN LIBERATION DAY🇮🇳🎊❤️from Daman

[@harshalgore]

Excellent Nitin sir. Very well presented and researched. Dhanyavad for sharing and refreshing our collective memory as a Nation…🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 Jai Hind!!!

[@narvekar83]

Freedom movement was not started by Ram Manohar Lohia. It was always there before his visit. Definitely his famous speech at margao led to intensify the fight. And pls it was not religious fight. People of Goa participated and fought against Portuguese as one.

[@sharathkumarrao2655]

YES DR BRAGANZA AND OTHER GOAN PATRIOTS

[@RajKaTaj]

Though I like listening to his talks on historical events. He has clearly goofed up by first saying that Vasco was in search of America but landed in Goa, where as it is Columbus who set out for India but landed in America thus ending up calling native Americans as Indians. Secondly, the first agitation by "Goanese" was not after Ram Manohar Lohia and T. B. Cunha teamed up but was much earlier by Goans in the form of the Pintos Conspiracy.

[@sharathkumarrao2655]

@@RajKaTaj YES APPRECIATE YOUR POST. ONLY THOSE WHO KNOW GOAN HISTORY KNOW ABOUT THE PINTO CONSPIRACY, ALSO THERE WERE OTHER GOANS WHO ROSE AGAINST PORTUGUESE IMPERIALISM LONG BEFORE SHRI LOHIA. I REQUEST SOMEONE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH GOA's PAST TO COME OUT WITH THE SAME. REGARDS TO YOU AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

[@sharathkumarrao2655]

CORRECT. THE PRIDE THAT A GOAN HAS IN KONKANI IS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED, AND THE INTENSE ATTACHEMENT TO GOA, THAT FOLLOWS A GOAN ALL OVER THE WORLD IS WHAT UNITES GOANS EVEN NOW, PRAY TO THE ALMIGHTY THAT IT REMAINS THIS WAY ALWAYS.

[@debasishdas1137]

Wish you happy NewYear Nitinji. Thank you for reminding and telling us the history, a more detailed description will be much appreciated, also know that, I enjoy your oration.

[@Alo338.]

🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹viva antigos estados da Índia portuguêsa🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@DR-fn1if]

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[@abhishekverma6098]

You are my hero in journalism Ofcourse in military was bipin rawat sir

[@renjanpai4256]

Our community The Gaud Saraswath Brahman community suffered at the hands of the Portuguese and we were forced to flee Goa and settle on the costal towns of Karnataka and Kerala.

[@theom5909]

Thanks Nitin Sir for giving us inside about Goa independence

[@8625gaurav]

One of the few quality channel of KZbin

[@kangkana5744]

Thank you sir..for the beautiful explanation

[@narvekar83]

It was not goanis nor such word exist. It’s the people of Goa or simply Goan who fought against the oppressor together as one, irrespective of their religion or cast.

[@mihirpatkie1793]

Haha nice fake stories 😂. Only Hindus fought against colonizers in Goa, the Christians sided with and in fact actively supported Portugese...

[@narvekar83]

@@mihirpatkie1793 Have you read about the history of Goan freedom struggle?

[@mihirpatkie1793]

@@narvekar83 Yes. As I said, only Hindus fought for independence of Goa. You have anything to counter?

[@narvekar83]

@@mihirpatkie1793 read ....you need to read and then make a comment...

[@mihirpatkie1793]

@@narvekar83 Bol na how many Christians fought against Portugese. Aise vague answers band karo..

[@पांडेयसुशील]

धन्यवाद सर 🙏

[@jayakrishnan26]

How travancore kingdom in Kerala was merged is also a good topic ..not many people know about the resistance by travancore king against India after 1947..

[@karthik1905]

In the end we in pondicerry got independence from French east India company and occupied by Hindi east india company!

[@RadhakrishnaSharma]

Hi. would you be able to do an episode or series of what you think will happen by the year 2030? Or what would be the state of India and its neighbours.

[@aishakatayysha]

very succinct discourse as always

[@TimSerras]

Most Goans I’ve spoken to regret Indian invasion.

[@kv8201]

Just a little correction….It’s not ‘Junaghar’, but It is ‘Junagadh’.

[@ramamohanareddy5057]

Wish you Advance Happy New Year Nitin Ji...

[@dhruvsinghal4961]

Surprised that there was no mention of the other Portuguese territory in India, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which was liberated 7 years earlier in 1954.

[@Joy_IR89]

He doesn't know all such stuff...

[@MsLakshmi1985]

Excellent presentation.

[@karthiks4347]

Very good very good 👍👍🙏 please do videos in this line.

[@leanderbarreto6523]

Why are these archives not freely available?

[@inamco]

Most of the north Indians don't even know who the hell is Hon, V. K. Krishna Menon. it's sad few Indians looting the republic of India.

[@srinivasansridharan]

Thanks for the episode

[@drravigaikwad5391]

👍👍

[@deepikaamirapu6118]

Thanks Nitin for this episode. Perhaps you ran out of time to mention that the Portugese destroyed Goa's monuments and dented its heritage significantly on their way out.

[@RajKaTaj]

Where are you getting this information from? Though Portuguese dictator Salazar had asked the local governor Vassalo e Silva to maintain a scorched earth policy, the then governor never executed this order as he did not want to wipe off Portuguese architecture and monuments from Goa, all the Portuguese did were blow up a couple of bridges to stop advance of the Indian Army. Vassalo e Silva was greeted with a hostile reception when he returned to Portugal. He was subsequently court martialed for failing to follow orders, expelled from the military and was sent into exile. His rank and freedom were restored only in 1974, after the fall of the regime, and he was given back his military status. He was later able to conduct a state visit to Goa, where he was given a warm reception due to his previous decision to not let Goa burn.

[@utkarshsingh2638]

Sir I am here after ...when you took a seminar in BHU on Vijay Divas

[@_vs04]

Sir, you can make videos on historical battle, which are not present in our history books like battle of dewair etc

[@VasavSinghNegi]

👍

[@iqbalsingh3981]

🙏👍..

[@aadityaranjan2569]

Please also make a video on prototype fast breeder reactor of india which is taking too much time to complete

[@Joy_IR89]

He won't be able to make it, it's not his cup of tea ..

[@US008]

What's the difference between Stratnewsglobal and Bharat Shakti? I have seen English language videos on Bharat Shakti too, do the difference is not of language

[@positivekumar3546]

Nehru was sick of using force. So he let go Aksai chin and surrendered to China in 1962

[@rohitagarwal5293]

👌👌👌

[@Nagarjun459]

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[@fabiolimadasilva3398]

INVASÃO e não integração. Greetings from Brazil.

[@leanderbarreto6523]

Goa needed what Macao has

[@lionelantao9982]

Columbus was looking for India and landed in America. I think you got your adventurers mixed up. Also it's "anomalies" and not "anamalies". At first I thought I heard "animals".

[@digetalised]

What happened to those Portugese?? Did they remain here or left? Is it true that Goan people can have dual citizenship of portugese nd india?

[@basildza]

India does not allow dual citizenship. But anyone who can show any ancestor having been born in Portuguese occupied Goa before liberation, can choose to swap their Indian citizenship for a Portuguese one. This is because Portuguese took an unusual step of declaring all colonies as integral parts of their country. They did this to avoid having to give them back as part of the decolonisation wave that was ongoing after world war 2. The only effect this had was a long line of citizenship applications from people trying to get a Portuguese passport to get into the EU or Britain.

[@dhamankokaa]

Did you just say that Vasco Da Gama set out to find America and accidentally landed in India??? Buddy Buddy Buddy.... look it up.

[@michaelzhang1626]

Myanmar used to be one province of East India Company. After decolonization, India, Pak. Myanmar are all independent. GOA was even not part of East India Company, why India thought GOA is part of independent India naturally?

[@positivekumar3546]

East India company didn't own or have a copyright to.determine the boundaries of India. They were kicked out. Just as the Hindus were attacked & brutally defeated by Catholics in the 1600's in Goa, it was fairly & rightfully liberated from invaders or Catholic Portuguese. Now the Catholics in 1962 were defeated.

[@psuyog]

Goa (Gomantak), Daman were parts of Maharashtra, occupied by Portuguese. Belgaon belongs to Maharashtra, It has headquarter of Maratha infantry.

[@bharsha91]

Belgaum belongs to Karnataka. If you go by history then Entire Southern India should belong to Karnataka & Andhra because of the Vijaya Nagar Empire which ruled from kanyakumari to Bengal for centuries.

[@psuyog]

@@bharsha91 Karnataka should divided into 3 parts Karunadu, Tulunadu & Kodava land. 3 distinct languages forcefully merged into Karnataka. Kannadigas should understand the feelings of other natives.

[@aadityaranjan2569]

Hope that our agni 5 is targeted at Lisbon also along with British cities

[@Joy_IR89]

No it's only meant for coward 🇨🇳🤣🤣

[@basildza]

What would be the point of targeting the British or Portuguese now? It's like saying Maharastra should attack Hyderabad/Delhi cause mughals attacked Shivaji. And anyways, Due to the huge demographic shifts, various Asian countries are going to dominate the next few decades without any bloodshed being required.

[@tammychadha432]

Wish you could highlight the atrocities of the Portugese too....

[@positivekumar3546]

Absolutely. Inquisition crimes of radical Christians should be brought into picture

[@satyagun1]

At that time we had the weakest leadership at the centre and so China took full advantage of the situation.

[@mariosk2792]

Índia invaded Goa

[@ianwilson8759]

Goa was never a part of a unified India. To claim that it was "liberated" in 1962 is just a straight lie. It was invaded and forcibly annexed against the wishes of the people of Goa. I can't imagine why you would want to lie about a very recent and well documented piece of history. The same goes for Hyderabad state.

[@positivekumar3546]

Gomantak( Goa) was invaded and forcibly annexed against wish of majority of Hindus by Radical Catholics who did Evilish things like Inquisition & cutting hands oh Hindus at Haath katro in Goa. Infact, the Portuguese who surrendered needed to be beheaded and sent to Lisbon,that also would've not matched the Portuguese cruelty. The sympathizers like you should be dealt in a similar way.

[@Joy_IR89]

I will tell you the harsh reality, your wish of reaching 100k subscriber won't be fulfilled this year for sure, keep trying in next year...

[@MaTara01]

It isn't really a race. YT subscriber count is not necessarily an indication of quality content. This is a very niche & nuanced India specific geopolitical channel - it isn't every one's cup of tea. StratNewsGlobal has had tremendous organic growth which should be appreciated, since it is the only channel of its kind on KZbin.

[@Joy_IR89]

@@MaTara01 I humbly disagree with you ... Rajya Sabha TV and Lok Sabha has been discussing these topics since many years, Stratnewsglobal is nothing as compared to that, in fact it just copy pastes from international news channels and present to us with some guests and graphics... absolutely plain content..in fact if you are someone who is a researcher you read these reports everyday through different sources...so in my opinion Stratnewsglobal is doing nothing new.. in fact I read international news with its related analysis all day long and no news escapes my sight... My day begins by reading global affairs and my day ends with reading military affairs..

[@Joy_IR89]

@@MaTara01 sorry to burst your another bubble, it is not an India specific Geopolitical channel..all it does is discuss some events which are covered by international news channels on daily basis which even WION and other news channels does. You will find same professor, analyst etc speaking same stuff in think tanks, other news channels etc.. so nothing new..simply..as far as I am concerned.. for example the conflict in Ethiopia doesn't affect India so much; but it's an important global event, so to show that it's tracking global affairs, Nitin pays some money to a journalist over there, calls him and asks him some questions or his views, the same views are written by that journalist for some other media item like NY Times and Al-Jazeera. Another example. Michael kugelman. I have personally attended a Lecture where he discussed a topic and it's all same being repeated here in Stratnewsglobal...so that's what the reality is ...the ambassadors that he calls here sometimes post same views in Indian Express and other sources, so what's the big deal over here ?? Stratnews is not unique...it's just like the rest of media people who cover this area of journalism..

[@MaTara01]

@@Joy_IR89 I don't share your opinion at all. If you are so disappointed with the channel, you should not be spending your valuable time here.

[@Joy_IR89]

@@MaTara01 you don't decide whether I am disappointed with the channel or not ..I told you the reality.. which I feel is the truth ... Now we are not living in 🇨🇳 atleast so you will decide who will watch stratnewsglobal in YT and who will not..we can agree to disagree..simple..

[@Joy_IR89]

Boring episode, many people know about liberation of Goa, everyone knows this yar 😑😑👎👎 you are running out of topics every week👎👎

[@sushantkitchen]

I hate to agree with you...but u r right sir

[@MaTara01]

@Ajay Kumar I didn't know the full story about the liberation of Goa & I am sure many other people don't either. It is a topical issue since Goa is celebrating 60 years of independence from Portugal and its certainly not boring.

[@Joy_IR89]

@@MaTara01 it's known to many people, majority of people know this. A basic history and some books like India after Gandhi written by that Guha writer, etc discuss these things in details..

[@MaTara01]

@@Joy_IR89 Can you please give a percentage figure for "many people"?

[@Joy_IR89]

@@MaTara01 I can't give you any percentage but many people know this...I knew this thing in my graduation days, many years ago.... Me and my classmates used to discuss about India's history...

[@fabiolimadasilva3398]

INVASÃO e não integração. Greetings from Brazil.