The Quarterly Journal of the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, Ed. by S.H. Chiplonkar

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1879 Excerpt: ... CURRENT LITERATURE. "An Historical and Archaeological sketch of the Territory of Goa with a short statistical account of Goa" by Jose Nicolan Da Fonseca, is a very useful and interesting sketch of the past history and present condition of the Portuguese conquests on the Western Coast of India. In the words of Dr. Russel "the history of the Portuguese in India would point the moral and adorn the tale of a philosophical historian who should write of the decline and fall of empires." Mr. Fonseca has not attempted to trace the causes which have sapped the foundation of the mighty state built by Don Almeida and by Don Alphonso Albuquerque. He has contented himself with a sketch of the ruins which show how the work of statesmen and soldiers was destroyed by pride and bigotry. The Goa territory at present is 60 miles long and 30 miles broad, with an area of about 11,000 sqare miles, and a population of about 3,92,234 souls, of whom nearly two thirds are Christians, and the rest are chiefly Hindoos. The total revenue of the state is 11£ lacs, and the expenditure is about 11 lacs. The number of villages is 394, and of houses is 43,000. The number of Europeans of both sexes is within 2000. The wealth of cattle in Goa consists chiefly of its pigs, which number 87,000, and of the oxen which number more than a lac of heads. The country is chiefly agricultural, and the chief crop grown is rice. The area under cultivation numbers 1 lacs of acres, of which lac are taken up with rice cultivation, and about of a lac are taken up with cocoanut plantatiohs. The rice grown is stated to be 4 lacs of Khandies. The imports amount to 12 lacs, and the exports to 9 lacs, while the customs revenue slightly exceeds 3 lacs. The military expenditure including the police costs 5 la...