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Understanding 9/11Dr Timothy Walker -- Crisis in Goa: The Portuguese Response to the "Mutiny" in British-Occupied India (1857-1860)
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Recording of a talk -- 'Crisis in Goa:The Portuguese Response to the 'Mutiny' in British-Occupied India (1857-1860)' by Timothy Walker, on Friday, 6th January at 5:30 p.m. at the premises of the Delegation of Fundação Oriente in India, Behind People's High School, Fontainhas, Panjim, Goa, India.
This presentation examines the role of African conscripts in the Portuguese response to the Indian uprising of 1857, focusing on Portuguese use of these troops as a countervailing force to native Indians in Colonial Goa during the Crisis in British-Occupied India. In Goa, the colonial governmentâs desired reaction to the "Mutiny" was hindered by existing restrictions to the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. Regulations mandated from London and Lisbon in 1842 precluded the transport of forced laborers, including military conscripts, from Africa to India. This raised the question: Were African military conscripts, in effect, slaves, or were they proper soldiers?
Abolition of the Indian Ocean slave trade was highly unpopular among Indo-Portuguese elites and merchants. Historically, the government of the Estado da Índia had often used African slave soldiers in times of need. Within this context, the present work analyzes the attempts of the Portuguese governor in India to bring conscripted African soldiers from Mozambique to Goa in 1858-1859. The presentation will consider the general response of the Portuguese colonial government in Goa to the crisis in British-occupied India during 1857-1860. The presentation will also describe the provisions of the controversial Anglo-Portuguese Anti-Slavery Treaty of 1842, and provide social, political and economic context for the Portuguese response to the "Mutiny" in British India.
Dr. Timothy Walker (B.A., Hiram College, 1986; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University, 2001) is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. At UMD, he serves as Fulbright Program Advisor (faculty and students); Associate Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture (2007-2009); a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Portuguese Studies; and an affiliated faculty member of the Center of Indian Studies and Program in Women's Studies. Walker is also an Affiliated Researcher of the Centro de Historia de UltraMar (CHAM); Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. From 1994 to 2003, he was a visiting professor at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon. During Fall Term 2010 Walker was a visiting professor at Brown University. Dr. Walker participated in many conferences and seminars and has to his credit, several books, many dissertations, academic articles and published papers.
This presentation examines the role of African conscripts in the Portuguese response to the Indian uprising of 1857, focusing on Portuguese use of these troops as a countervailing force to native Indians in Colonial Goa during the Crisis in British-Occupied India. In Goa, the colonial governmentâs desired reaction to the "Mutiny" was hindered by existing restrictions to the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. Regulations mandated from London and Lisbon in 1842 precluded the transport of forced laborers, including military conscripts, from Africa to India. This raised the question: Were African military conscripts, in effect, slaves, or were they proper soldiers?
Abolition of the Indian Ocean slave trade was highly unpopular among Indo-Portuguese elites and merchants. Historically, the government of the Estado da Índia had often used African slave soldiers in times of need. Within this context, the present work analyzes the attempts of the Portuguese governor in India to bring conscripted African soldiers from Mozambique to Goa in 1858-1859. The presentation will consider the general response of the Portuguese colonial government in Goa to the crisis in British-occupied India during 1857-1860. The presentation will also describe the provisions of the controversial Anglo-Portuguese Anti-Slavery Treaty of 1842, and provide social, political and economic context for the Portuguese response to the "Mutiny" in British India.
Dr. Timothy Walker (B.A., Hiram College, 1986; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University, 2001) is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. At UMD, he serves as Fulbright Program Advisor (faculty and students); Associate Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture (2007-2009); a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Portuguese Studies; and an affiliated faculty member of the Center of Indian Studies and Program in Women's Studies. Walker is also an Affiliated Researcher of the Centro de Historia de UltraMar (CHAM); Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. From 1994 to 2003, he was a visiting professor at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon. During Fall Term 2010 Walker was a visiting professor at Brown University. Dr. Walker participated in many conferences and seminars and has to his credit, several books, many dissertations, academic articles and published papers.
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