Portuguese India

State of India
Estado da Índia
Colony; Overseas Province State of the Portuguese Empire
1505–1961
Flag Coat of Arms
Anthem "Hymno Patriótico" (1808–1826) Patriotic Anthem "Hino da Carta" (1826–1911) Hymn of the Charter "A Portuguesa" (1911–1961) The Portuguese
Portuguese India evolution. The State of India (Estado da Índia) in the 16th and 17th centuries also included possessions in all the Asian Subcontinents, East Africa, and in the Pacific
Capital		Nova Goa (Cochin to 1530)
Languages		Portuguese Also spoken; Konkani, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, others
Political structure		Colony; Overseas Province State of the Portuguese Empire
Head of state
•	King    1511–21	Manuel I of Portugal
•	President    1958–61	Américo Tomás
Viceroy
•	1505–9 (first)	Francisco de Almeida
•	1896 (last)	Afonso, Duke of Porto
Governor-general
•	1509–15 (first)	Afonso de Albuquerque
•	1958–62 (last)	Manuel António Vassalo e Silva
Historical era		Imperialism
•	Fall of Sultanate of Bijapur	15 August 1505
•	Indian Annexation;	19 December 1961
Currency		Portuguese Indian rupia (INPR) Portuguese Indian escudo (INPES)
Preceded by Succeeded by Bahmani Sultanate Gujarat Sultanate Goa, Daman and Diu Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Colonial India

Imperial entities of India
Dutch India	1605–1825
Danish India	1620–1869
French India	1769–1954
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Casa da Índia	1434–1833
Portuguese East India Company	1628–1633
British India (1612–1947)
East India Company	1612–1757
Company rule in India	1757–1858
British Raj	1858–1947
British rule in Burma	1824–1948
Princely states	1721–1949
Partition of India	1947

Also spoken; Konkani, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, others

The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Overseas Empire, founded six years after the discovery of a sea route between Portugal and the Indian Subcontinent to serve as the governing body of a string of Portuguese fortresses and colonies overseas.

The first viceroy, Francisco de Almeida, established his headquarters in Cochin (Cochim, Kochi). Subsequent Portuguese governors were not always of viceroy rank. After 1510, the capital of the Portuguese viceroyalty was transferred to Goa. Until the 18th century, the Portuguese governor in Goa had authority over all Portuguese possessions in the Indian Ocean, from southern Africa to southeast Asia. In 1752 Mozambique got its own separate government and in 1844 the Portuguese Government of India stopped administering the territory of Macau, Solor and Timor, and its authority was confined to the colonial holdings on the Malabar coast of present-day India.

At the time of the British Indian Empire's dissolution in 1947, Portuguese India was subdivided into three districts located on modern-day India's western coast, sometimes referred to collectively as Goa: These were Goa; Daman (Portuguese: Damão), which included the inland enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli; and Diu. Portugal lost effective control of the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1954, and finally the rest of the overseas territory in December 1961, when it was taken by India after military action. In spite of this, Portugal only recognised Indian control in 1975, after the Carnation Revolution and the fall of the Estado Novo regime.