The EIP: Official Data

Data Estimated. Compiled by Prakash J. Maskaren

Official Name Estado da India Portuguesa / State of Portuguese India

Civil Status Independent Sovereign and Integral Republic, former Portuguese Dependency 1508-1975; occupied by the Indian Union, 1954 & 1961; independence from Portugal, 1975; seeking liberation from Indian Union.

Geographic Location The East Indies, Hither India, on the west coast of the Great Indian Peninsula

Executive
President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, other Secretaries.

Legislature
Diet Nasional, Chamber of Deputies: 2 deputies of each Canton, 2 each of main 6 cities, 2 of Academia and Statutory Societies, 8 of Expatriate Citizens, 2 of the Catholic Church; Chamber of Representatives: 100, elected by Universal Franchise.

Judiciary
Supreme Council of Judicature, Cantonal Courts, Circuit Courts, Justices of the Peace.

Adminstration 14 Cantons: 1. Pednem; 2. Satari; 3. Bardez; 4. Bicholim; 5. Isles of Goa; 6. Antruz; 7. Sashtim; 8. Kepem; 9. Sanguem; 10. Kanakon; 11. Isles of the Angedives; 12. Damão; 13. Dadra & Nagar-Avelim and 14. Diu. Cantonal Diets and Executive (Prefect) elected for fixed terms.

Economy Mining of iron, manganese and bauxite; Agriculture, fishery, animal husbandry and forestry; some manufacturing.

Communications Airlines: TAIP (Transportes Aereos da India Portuguesa) serving domestic airfields: Dabolim, Damão; Diu and Selvassa; International connections to Bombay, Karachi, Colombo, Persian Gulf, Mombassa, Kampala, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Dar-es-Salaam, Macau and Lisbon. Railway lines joining Mormugoa, via Vasco da Gama and Madhgaum, etc., to Belgaum in the Indian Union; 2^nd North-South Line; Passenger shipping (Intra-National) to Damão & Diu; (International) Bombay, Karachi, Ceylon, Singapore, etc., to the Persian Gulf and East Africa; National Highway #1, running north-south through the main cluster of ten cantons.

Major Cities Ponjhe (the national capital), Madhgaum, Mapsa, Vasco da Gama, Ponda, Damão.

Currency EIP Rupees

Languages Konkani (National), Portuguese(Co-Official), English

Principal Ethnic Groups Konkani (in the main cluster, in the Angedives, in Damão and in Dadra & Nagar-Aveli, being Konkani Vasava tribal), Sorathi (in Diu), some Mestico.

Religion Christian Catholic 80%, Hindu 16%, some Muslim, Jacobites, Protestants and others.

Notes:
The EIP's Constitutional Law, which is the former law of Portugal, upto 1975, recognizes its citizens even when resident without its boundaries. Therefore, taking 18^th December 1961 as the Break-Point, and disregarding the law of the Invaders, the EIP was and is still majority Christian, and the large number of the Indian Union's colonists have no standing in law at all.

Official Name	Estado da India Portuguesa / State of Portuguese India
Civil Status	Independent Sovereign and Integral Republic, former Portuguese Dependency 1508-1975; occupied by the Indian Union, 1954 & 1961; independence from Portugal, 1975; seeking liberation from Indian Union.
Geographic Location	The East Indies, Hither India, on the west coast of the Great Indian Peninsula
Executive	President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, other Secretaries.
Legislature	Diet Nasional, Chamber of Deputies: 2 deputies of each Canton, 2 each of main 6 cities, 2 of Academia and Statutory Societies, 8 of Expatriate Citizens, 2 of the Catholic Church; Chamber of Representatives: 100, elected by Universal Franchise.
Judiciary	Supreme Council of Judicature, Cantonal Courts, Circuit Courts, Justices of the Peace.
Adminstration	14 Cantons: 1. Pednem; 2. Satari; 3. Bardez; 4. Bicholim; 5. Isles of Goa; 6. Antruz; 7. Sashtim; 8. Kepem; 9. Sanguem; 10. Kanakon; 11. Isles of the Angedives; 12. Damão; 13. Dadra & Nagar-Avelim and 14. Diu. Cantonal Diets and Executive (Prefect) elected for fixed terms.
Economy	Mining of iron, manganese and bauxite; Agriculture, fishery, animal husbandry and forestry; some manufacturing.
Communications	Airlines: TAIP (Transportes Aereos da India Portuguesa) serving domestic airfields: Dabolim, Damão; Diu and Selvassa; International connections to Bombay, Karachi, Colombo, Persian Gulf, Mombassa, Kampala, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Dar-es-Salaam, Macau and Lisbon. Railway lines joining Mormugoa, via Vasco da Gama and Madhgaum, etc., to Belgaum in the Indian Union; 2^nd North-South Line; Passenger shipping (Intra-National) to Damão & Diu; (International) Bombay, Karachi, Ceylon, Singapore, etc., to the Persian Gulf and East Africa; National Highway #1, running north-south through the main cluster of ten cantons.
Major Cities	Ponjhe (the national capital), Madhgaum, Mapsa, Vasco da Gama, Ponda, Damão.
Currency	EIP Rupees
Languages	Konkani (National), Portuguese(Co-Official), English
Principal Ethnic Groups	Konkani (in the main cluster, in the Angedives, in Damão and in Dadra & Nagar-Aveli, being Konkani Vasava tribal), Sorathi (in Diu), some Mestico.
Religion	Christian Catholic 80%, Hindu 16%, some Muslim, Jacobites, Protestants and others.