Goa Displayed in Goa

The 1860 Industrial Exhibition of Portuguese Colonial India

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ID4103116
AuthorsFilipa Lowndes Vicente (0000-0002-3334-3064, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume115
Issue115
Pages159-182
Publication date2018-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista crítica de ciências sociais/Revista crítica de ciências sociais (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0254-1106 • E-ISSN: 2182-7435
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/rccs.7039
OpenAlexW2804686173
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

In 1860, Goa hosted the Industrial Exhibition of Portuguese India with 230 exhibitors and over 4,000 articles on display, all described in a comprehensive printed catalogue. How can we explain that Goa, considered the most neglected Portuguese colony by the late 19th century, had an “industrial exhibition” five years before the first international exhibition to take place in Portugal, in 1865, and twenty years before the first exhibition held in a Portuguese colony, that of Cape Verde, in 1881? This article tries to understand the meaning of a local initiative that led to the display of Goa’s entangled past, present, and future – a space which was ‘displayed’ across time and described by many as a “country”, with its own identity, and separate from the “other” India

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cape verde · Colonialism · Ethnology · Exhibition · Geography · Linguistics · Portuguese · Visual arts · Australian History and Society · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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