The present work is written, by the authorization of the Bombay Government, in connection with the local and imperial Gazetteer. The materials have been collected from the most reliable sources such as the writings of many eminent authors and of distinguished travelers who visited Goa at different times, official documents and records preserved in the Secretariat of the Government of Goa, ancient inscriptions recently deciphered, and the information supplied to the author of this book by the heads of several Public Department in Goa. The proper names, except the Portuguese, are spelt according to the Hunterian system. The author is indebted to various authorities in Goa, who provide him valuable information, records on different subjects which he incorporates in this discourse in a most compact and consistent manner.
FONSECA, José Nicolau da. (1837-1886) Historian of Portuguese India, himself from Goa.
"The history of the Portuguese in India would point the moral and adorn the tale of a philosophical historian who should write of the decline and fall of the empires...It (the city of Goa) is a place an Englishman ought to visit. It is a place which an English Prince especially may visit with great profit. If we are proud of our deeds and of our history in India, and if we are elated by the greatness of the doings of our race, we may be led by the aspect of the ruins, such as those which the Prince of Wales has been gazing upon, to turn our thoughts to the investigation of the causes which sap the foundation of mighty states, and lay the work of statesmen and soldiers in the dust."
THE present work is written, by the nuthorization of the Bombay Government, in connection with the local and imperial Gazetteer. The materials have been gathered from the. most reliable sources such as the writings of many eminent authors and of distinguished travellers who visited Goa at different times, official documents and records preserved in the Secretariat of the Government of Goa, ancient inscriptions recently deciphered, and the information supplied to me by the heads of several Public Departments in Gon.
The plan of the city appended to this work is taken from D. L. Cottineau de Kloguen, and the outlines of the Map of Goa from that of Lieutenant J. F. d'Assa Castel Branco.
The proper names, except the Portuguese, are spelt according to the Hunterian system. I have to thank Messrs. Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara and Eduardo de Sú Nogueira P. de Balsemão, the late and the present Chief Secretary to the Government of Goa, for having kindly placed at my disposal some of the most important records of the Secretariat; as well as several other public authorities and literary gentlemen of Goa, who have favoured me with valuable information on different subjects, and whose names will be mentioned in the more detailed work on the territory of Goa which is under preparation.
I also avail myself of this opportunity to acknowledge my obligations to several other gentlemen for their kind assistance, especially Messrs. James Macnabb Campbell, C. S., Ganpat Sadashiv Rao, M. A., and Julio Lucas Brito.
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