Gandaulim (Ilhas)

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Gandaulim
Gaundalim
Village
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Igreja de São Brás, Gandaulim
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Gandaulim
Coordinates: 15°30′44.5″N73°56′28.9″E / 15.512361°N 73.941361°E / 15.512361; 73.941361
Country Flag of India.svg  India
State Goa
District North Goa
Sub District Ilhas
Government
  Type Panchayat
   Sarpanch unknown
Elevation
8 m (26 ft)
Population
 (2021)
  Totalapprox. 300
Demonym Gandaulicar
Languages
  Official Konkani
  Also spoken (understood) English, Marathi, Hindi
  Historical Portuguese
Religions
  Dominant Christianity
  Minor Hinduism
  Historical Roman Catholicism
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Postcode
403505
Telephone code08343

Gandaulim is a village located on the western bank of the Cumbarjua Canal, within Ilhas in the state of Goa, India. Some Croatian writers have claimed that it was a colonial outpost of the Republic of Ragusa.

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History

Gandaulim might have been a spice trading post of the Republic of Ragusa in the early modern period. [1]

In the annals of 1605, Jakov Lukarević noted that Ragusan merchants invested in decorating a local church. [2] Portuguese traveler Gomes Catão documented the town to have a population of 12,000, where wealthy ladies were carried to the churches by slaves in canopies. [1] Catão also remarked the church to be modeled on an eponymous church in Dubrovnik. [1] These claims have since been adopted into the popular memory of the inhabitants of Gandaulim, and Ragusans are now credited for the very construction of the church; however, the factual accuracy of this remains disputed. [1] [3] [lower-alpha 1]

Some historians have used these arguments to make assumptions about the existence of a Ragusan colony. [2] [1] [lower-alpha 2] Serbian economic historian Nicholas Mirkovich had lamented in 1943 about the lack of contemporary Ragusan sources to draft a history of their exploits in India. [3]

Interest in the connection was revived in 1999, when Croatian Indologist Zdravka Matišić discovered a reference to ties between Ragusa and Goa by chance while studying Sanskrit texts in India. [1] [4] [5] That same year, Croatian author Karmen Bašić noted that while nothing definitive could be said about Ragusan arrival and departure from Goa, there was a "substantial body of evidence and sources vouching for Ragusa’s presence" and its role in the global spice trade, though the notion of a colony linked to the Saint Blaise (São Brás) church at Gandaulim remained "somewhat of a mystery". [1]

Infrastructure

In 2016, a bridge was constructed on the outskirts of the village, over the canal. This bridge now links the islands of Ilhas de Goa to Cumbarjua. [6] [7]

Gandaulim was a site of a historical fortress, which was demolished in early 21st century for a road expansion project.

Notes

  1. Croatian author Ivo Šišević has claimed an inspiration from St. Saviour Church, Dubrovnik. [1]
  2. A major proponent of this theory is Croatian diplomat-historian Darko Bekić, who proposed that the Ragusans reached Portuguese Goa sometime between 1530 and 1535 and went on to establish a colony, which declined in late 17th century. [1]

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