Portuguese decolonization in the Indian Ocean world: history and ethnography

Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes.

Gupta considers decolonization as simultaneously a historical event and an ethnographic moment, accessed through written, oral and visual and eyewitness accounts of how people experienced of the transfer of state power.