Although the local self-governance has emerged as the key to prosperity, development and good governance in the late 20th Century, yet its history dates back to ancient India. It can be safely hypothesized that the panchayats ...

The village communities of Goa, like their counterparts in Karnataka, performed an important function. They provided the spiritual and material bases for the process of state formation. The kings selected the Brahmanas as ...

The 20th century was the century of refugees. Several wars and territorial aggrandisement policies of nascent nation-states were responsible for the exodus of persecuted people across the world. Tibet, an isolated Himalayan ...

This paper contextualizes the Portuguese source Junta da Real Fazenda by placing it in the proper historiographical context. The source is studied in three phases: pre Pombaline, Pombaline and post Pombaline eras. The Goan ...

Discussions on the concept of independence and liberation are essential in the democratisation of politics in Goa. The foundation of Goa's electoral politics stems from the politics of liberation championed by the first ...