The Villages of Goa and the Portuguese Empire. An historical approach (16th-17th centuries)
Friday, 16 August 2024 | 6 pm
HISTORY HOUR
The Villages of Goa and the Portuguese Empire.
An historical approach (16th-17th centuries)
Roger Lee de Jesus
Researcher, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover
Moderated by
Kaustubh Naik
Doctoral candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Please join us for a History Hour on ‘The Villages of Goa and the Portuguese Empire. An historical approach (16th-17th centuries)’ by Roger Lee de Jesus and moderated by Kaustubh Naik on Friday, 16 August 2024 at 6 pm at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim.
Please join us for tea at 5:30 pm.
The Villages of Goa and the Portuguese Empire
An historical approach (16th-17th centuries)
The lecture aims to explore the importance and relevance of Goan villages within the Portuguese Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries. Using historical sources from archives in Goa, Lisbon, and Rome, it examines the evolving relationship between the Portuguese Crown and the villages. The discussion will focus on how and why certain norms and practices were preserved or adapted, while addressing a central question for both the Gaunkars and Portuguese officials of the time: to whom does the land belong?
Roger Lee de Jesus
Roger Lee de Jesus is a post-doc researcher at the ERC project IberLAND at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany), developing a study on the villages of Goa (1510-1650). He has a PhD in History (Coimbra, 2021), with a thesis on the role of the governor D. João de Castro in the construction of the Portuguese Estado da Índia (1545-1548). He is interested in the history of the Portuguese Empire and its presence in Asia from political, social, economic-financial and military perspective, especially in the implementation and adaptation of European institutions and warfare (16th-17th centuries).
Kaustubh Naik
Kaustubh Naik is a doctoral candidate in South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is developing a thesis on the institutional history of the New Conquests and the intersection of Land, Law, and Language. He is an alumni of Ambedkar University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), both in New Delhi where he researched about popular theatre cultures in colonial and post-colonial Goa. He has widely written about Goa in the English and Marathi press.
Xavier Centre of Historical Research
B B Borkar Road, Porvorim, Goa 403521, India