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Governor-General of Portuguese India (1958–1961)

Manuel António Vassalo e Silva
Official portrait, 1960
Governor-General of Portuguese India
In office
1958 – 19 December 1961
PresidentAmérico Tomás
Prime MinisterAntónio de Oliveira Salazar
Preceded byPaulo Bénard Guedes
Succeeded byOffice abolished
(K. P. Candeth as Military Governor of Goa, Daman and Diu)
(Dayanand Bandodkar asChief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu)
Personal details
Born(1899-11-08)8 November 1899
Died11 August 1985(1985-08-11) (aged 85)
Lisbon, Portugal
SpouseFernanda Pereira e Silva Monteiro
Children3
RelativesMaria Lamas (sister)
ProfessionArmy officer

Manuel António Vassalo e Silva (8 November 1899 – 11 August 1985) was an officer of thePortuguese Army and an overseas administrator. He was the 128th and the lastGovernor-General of Portuguese India.

Personal life

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Silva was the only son of Manuel Caetano da Silva (1870–1926) and his wife Maria da Encarnação Vassalo (1869–1922), and was the brother of the feminist author and anti-government campaignerMaria Lamas. He was married, with two daughters, Joana and Aurora.[citation needed]

Governor-General of Portuguese India

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In 1958, Silva was nominated to replacePaulo Bénard Guedes as the 128thGovernor-General of Portuguese India. At the same time, he was also appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese Armed Forces in India.[citation needed]

When theRepublic of India sought toannex the territories ofGoa,Daman (from which had been previously separated in 1954 and annexed by India in 1961 theenclave ofDadra and Nagar Haveli) andDiu from Portuguese control in December 1961, Silva, recognizing the futility of facing a superior enemy, disobeyed direct orders from the President of theCouncil of Ministers (Prime Minister) of Portugal,António de Oliveira Salazar to fight to the death and surrendered the following day to the 48th Indian Infantry Brigade underGurbux Singh, following several losses and the destruction of the warshipNRPAfonso de Albuquerque.[1][2] After that he fell into disgrace at the eyes of Salazar, who never accepted thefait accompli of the annexation.[citation needed]

Silva was greeted with a hostile reception when he returned to Portugal. He was subsequentlycourt 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 authoritarian 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.[3]

Portuguese politicianNarana Coissoró claimed that Salazar had sent Silva acyanide capsule for use in case of defeat.[citation needed]

Family

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He was married to Fernanda Pereira e Silva Monteiro and had a son and two daughters:

  • Fernando Manuel Pereira Monteiro Vassalo e Silva (Lisbon, 6 December 1925 – Lisbon, 9 June 2006), married to Maria Amélia Franco Veiga (Lisbon, 20 March 1932 – 17 March 2004), daughter of António Veiga and wife Rosa Maria Garcia Franco, and had issue, seven children, two married and had issue.[citation needed]
  • Maria Fernanda Pereira Monteiro Vassalo e Silva, married to Rui António da Cunha Bernardino, and had issue, eight children, eight married and had issue, has now grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the first having the name India.[citation needed]
  • Maria da Luz Pereira Monteiro Vassalo e Silva, married to António Faias Sors Lagrifa, born inLuanda, and had issue (their son Jorge Manuel Vassalo Sors Lagrifa (7 May 1948 – 6 February 2005) was the second husband without issue of Ana Cristina da Gama Caeiro da Mota Veiga, born in Lisbon, Santos o Velho, on 4 June 1950, daughter ofAntónio da Mota Veiga and wife Maria Emília da Gama Caeiro, formerly married and divorced fromMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa).[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^Times, Navhind (13 December 2011)."Goa to honour Operation Vijay heroes".The Navhind Times. Retrieved26 August 2024.
  2. ^Faleiro, Valmiki (24 July 2023).Goa, 1961: The Complete Story of Nationalism and Integration. Penguin Random House India Private Limited.ISBN 978-93-5708-175-7.
  3. ^"Dossier Goa - A Recusa Do Sacrifício Inútil Summary". Shvoong.com. Archived fromthe original on 17 January 2017. Retrieved9 November 2009.[dead link]
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