Education and society in Goa under Portuguese rule

Alka Malvankar ()

Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2015, vol. 17, issue 2, 298-311

Abstract: This paper analyses the history of education in Goa under Portuguese rule and bring out distinctive features of educational development by different phases. The analysis is focused on four and a half centuries of acculturative Portuguese influence in Goa and educational development during that time to understand Portugal as a colonial power, its aims and objectives, and the centuries in which colonization of Goa took place. Copyright Institute for Social and Economic Change 2015

Keywords: Colonial; Portuguese Goa; Christianity; Acculturation; Proselytization; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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