Place · former Portuguese enclave · India
Dadra
The small enclave of Dadra in the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Union Territory, 10 kilometres from Silvassa and 40 kilometres from Daman — a 1.57-square-kilometre enclave held by Portugal from 1783 until the 22 July 1954 raid by Indian volunteer nationalists (the Azad Gomantak Dal and the United Front of Goans) that captured the enclave in the first act of the Dadra and Nagar Haveli liberation. The Dadra Day on 22 July each year commemorates the raid. The Portuguese administrative building, the Patlo-Garh fortification and the Mandavi river bridge preserve the colonial-era settlement. The 2020 merger of the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli with Daman and Diu created the current UT structure.
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- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 20.320, 73.020
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- Power passed toVallabhbhai Patel
Dadra and Nagar Haveli were taken from Portugal in July and August 1954 by volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, the Azad Gomantak Dal and the United Front of Goans — not by the Indian government, which kept a careful distance and said so at the International Court of Justice. The tract then governed itself for seven years before merging. It is the only part of the republic that was independent for longer than a week.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Dadra”. Charles Boxer, The Portuguese Seaborne Empire; the Historical Archives of Goa; UNESCO’s Churches and Convents of Goa file.
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