Nuno Lopes

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This book offers a heterogeneous enquiry into the historical contexts and policies that conditioned the emergence and institutionalisation of cultural heritage assets, focusing mostly on geographies shaped by Portuguese influence and using as an operational tool the concept of landscape. Assessing related discourses and practices, which reveal comparative dynamics, this volume deals with history as a basis for understanding the different and shared realities in each country and region, and politics (and policies) taken as a repertoire of action to tackle the problems and challenges associated with cultural heritage, that is, those identified and contested as such. The topics addressed by each chapter are diverse and crucial: contested heritage; social justice; heritage as performance; industrial colonialism; tourism and heritage; heritage management and preservation; conservation, heritage, and landscape. The Patrimónios (Heritages) — UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Dialogue on the He...

Once Afonso de Albuquerque had identified the importance of Goa within the political-military context of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the need to equip the newly created State of India with a fortified city with a significant hinterland, he decided to conquer it in 1510. Twenty years later, Goa was promoted to the status of capital, allowing a strategy of territorial occupation to be consolidated and reinforced. Between pragmatism and theory, a growing, concentric and gradual defensive system was developed, rendering Goa the main statement of Portuguese Crown as the main naval power in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century. We propose a look at the old defensive system, which today is the legacy of a constructed territory, and the identity of a community, comprising an integrated ensemble of assets with heritage value. The objective is, therefore, to determine the specific nature of Goa within the context of South Asia, with drawing as the key investigation tool.

Facing the absence of an administrative centre representing a meaningful hinterland besides the fortress area, and after the recognition of the strategic importance of this territory, the Portuguese conquered Goa in 1510 and reinforced that position in the subsequent decades, thus establishing a change in the imperial paradigm: from a logic of maritime hegemony to strategies of territorial occupation. Besides being a region of productive land, boasting the largest market of Persian and Arab horses of Western India, it also held a strategic position of prime importance, apparently well-defendable, given its geographical characteristics. From 1530 on, the State of India was consolidated, with the promoted of Goa to capital, where a complex defensive system would be developed relying not only on its fortified structures, but also on its naval might, on its weaponry, and on its communications system extending far beyond the initial territory. This territorial occupation, which experienced gradual growth — firstly with the Old Conquests, then with the New Conquests — corresponded to a position within a wider network, settled by the Indian Ocean, making the Portuguese the largest power of this region during the first century of occupation.
This research aims at examining the local historical realities taking place throughout times, which are vital to acknowledge the dynamics of the present territory, thus contributing for the debate on this heritage which includes territory, communications and military constructions, as well as their intersection with architecture and urbanism. Besides the analysis of the historiographic production — whose works were conducted in a synchronic and diachronic manner — the main investment resides in the understanding between the political-military organisation of the Goan territory and what is left today of the elements that composed the defensive system which was set up therein between 1510 (the time of the conquest of Goa by the Portuguese) and 1660 (the decade of the appearance of the Maratha political-military rule led by Shivaji Maharaj (1630-1680) and the reawakening of the Dutch-Portuguese war, ending a cycle of important losses in the East), a present set of assets with heritage value which is worth reflecting upon.
To do so, and using drawing as the main tool of research, a number of graphic surveys was carried out and then a connection was established with the available theoretical foundations, articulating them with the identified and analysed cartography, corresponding to a work basis which allows to demonstrate how drawing and geography, connected to technologies, may become relevant towards a better (re)conaissance of the colonial realities of this territory, used to reinterpret their evolutional processes (to such an extent that it is possible to achieve a comparative base with other territories and urban cores, particularly in the Indian Ocean) — from the arrival of the Portuguese to Goa to the present reality — in an attempt to find the answers to the different transformations observed therein. Some examples thereof are: how the Portuguese gradually advanced in the territory; the technological evolution of the artillery and the response produced by the military architecture; the different setbacks encountered throughout the time of this occupation (namely the bad decisions regarding the implementation of the capital, or the Indian terrestrial threats, let alone naval, European and other threats); or even the influence and significance of this heritage in the composition of the the contemporary territory.
Once the object of study has been mastered, and being at stake a contemporary research project integrating the doctorate’s degree in Heritage of Portuguese Influence, it proved essential to conduct a reflection on the defensive system as heritage: what is was, what it is and what it might be in the future. In all, this is the great proposal of this investigation: the reading of this object, formed in the first century and a half of Portuguese occupation, as an infrastructure of the contemporary territory, basic element of the Goan identity. As such, its (re)cognition, preservation, and clarification — its legibility, therefore — are key in the identification of the specificities of Goa in the context of India and south Asia.

Once Afonso de Albuquerque had identified the importance of Goa within the political-military context of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the need to equip the newly created State of India with a fortified city with a significant hinterland, he decided to conquer it in 1510. Two decades later, Goa was promoted to the status of capital, allowing a strategy of territorial occupation to be consolidated and rein- forced. Between pragmatism and theory, a growing, concentric and gradual defensive system was developed, rendering Goa the main statement of Portuguese Crown as the main naval power in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century. Using drawing as a key research tool, we propose a look at the old defensive system, which today is the legacy of a constructed territory, and the identity of a community, comprising an integrated ensemble of assets with cultural heritage value.

Identificada a importância de Goa no contexto político-militar do subcontinente indiano, assim como a necessidade de dotar o recém-criado Estado da Índia de uma praça com um hinterland significativo, Afonso de Albuquerque decidiu-se, em 1510, pela sua conquista. Vinte anos depois, Goa seria elevada a capital, consolidando-se uma estratégia de ocupação territorial com base num sistema defensivo em crescimento concêntrico e gradual. Goa transformar-se-ia na principal peça de afirmação da Coroa portuguesa no Índico no século XVI. É proposta a leitura deste antigo sistema defensivo, hoje a memória da construção de um território, de uma comunidade com a sua identidade, correspondendo a um conjunto integrado de bens com valor patrimonial. A sua legibilidade é, por isso, determinante para a identificação da especificidade de Goa no contexto da Ásia do sul, com o desenho a assumir-se como discurso e ferramenta elementar de investigação.
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Identified the importance of Goa within the politico-military context of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the need to equip the newly created State of India with a fortified city with a significant hinterland, Afonso de Albuquerque decided to conquer it in 1510. Twenty years later, Goa was promoted to the status of capital, consolidating a strategy of territorial occupation based on a defensive system in concentric and gradual growth. Goa would become the main statement of Portuguese Crown in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century. It is proposed a look at the old defensive system, which today is the legacy of a constructed territory, and the identity of a community, comprising an integrated ensemble of assets with heritage value. The objective is, therefore, to determine the specific nature of Goa within the context of South Asia, with drawing as a discourse and the key research tool.