Pamila Gupta: 3 books
Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World
History and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes.
Gupta considers decolonization through the twined lenses...
South Africa and India
Shaping the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
South Africa’s future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global...
The relic state
St Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510–1961), and for which...