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The government of Portuguese India started in 1505, six years after the discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, with the nomination of the first Viceroy Francisco de Almeida, then settled at Kochi. Until 1752, the name "India" included all Portuguese possessions in the Indian Ocean, from southern Africa to Southeast Asia, governed - either by a Viceroy or Governor - from its headquarters, established in Goa since 1510. In 1752 Mozambique got its own government and in 1844 the Portuguese Government of India stopped administering the territory of Macau, Solor and Timor, being then confined to Malabar.
The following is a list of rulers during the history of Portuguese India as a viceroyalty or governorship.[1]
- Dom Francisco de Almeida (Viceroy) 1505-1509
- Afonso de Albuquerque (Governor) 1508-1515
- Lopo Soares de Albergaria (Governor) 1515-1518
- Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (Governor) 1518-22
- Dom Duarte de Menezes (Governor) 1522-1524
- Dom Vasco da Gama (Viceroy) 1524
- Dom Henrique de Menezes (Governor) 1525-6
- Lopes Vaz de Sampaio (Governor) 1526-9
- Nuno da Cunha (Governor) 1529-1538
- Dom Garcia de Noronha (Viceroy) 1538-1540
- Dom Estêvão da Gama (Governor) 1540-1542
- Martim Afonso de Sousa (Governor) 1542-1545
- Dom João de Castro (Governor and Captain-in-chief) 1545-7
- Dom João de Castro (as Viceroy) 1547-8
- Garcia de Sá (Governor) 1548-9
- Jorge Cabral (Governor) 1549-50
- Dom Afonso de Noronha (viceroy) 1550-1554
- Pedro Mascarenhas (v) 1554-5
- Francisco Barreto (g) 1555-8
- Dom Constantino de Braganza (v) 1558-61
- Dom Francisco Coutinho (v) 1561-4
- João de Mendonça (g) 1564
- António de Noronha (v) 1564-8
- Luís de Ataíde (v) 1568-71
- António de Noronha(v) 1571-3
- António Moniz Barreto (g) 1573-6
- Diogo de Menezes (g) 1576-8
- Luís de Ataíde (v) 1578-81 (v)
- Fernão Teles de Menezes (g) 1581
- One of the Counts of Ericeira (v) (?) to 1721
- Bernardo Peres da Silva (Prefect) 1835
- Manuel António Vassalo e Silva 1958-1962
References
- ^ List taken from: Danvers, Frederick Charles (1988) The Portuguese in India: being a history of the rise and decline of their eastern empire. Asian Educational Services; p. 487 (Appendix B)
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