![]() ![]() On the contrary, these moments, such as the moment of 1510, that we commemorate in this volume, when Albuquerque through his conquest of the island of Goa, laid the foundations for the capital of the Portuguese State in India, open for us opportunities to once more re-evaluate the past, examine the trajectories these moments have opened up for us, and assess the present. ![]() ![]() Commemorations of these moments however are not. Introductionġ Subsequent to the grand polemics and protests to the proposed celebration of Christopher Columbus’ «Discovery» of America, we know that the option to celebrate moments of the inauguration of modernity through the charting of sea routes to the Americas and to the South-Asian subcontinent is closed to us. My thanks to Rosa Maria Perez for her constant support and Nandini Chaturvedula but for who this paper would not have seen the light of day. This essay is based on research that was conducted towards the realization of a Master’s Thesis at the IISJ, Oñati. ![]()
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