Gandaulim
Gaundalim
Village
Igreja de Sao Bras, Gandaulim
Igreja de Sao Bras, Gandaulim
Gandaulim is located in Goa
Gandaulim
Gandaulim
Coordinates: 15°30′44.5″N 73°56′28.9″E / 15.512361°N 73.941361°E / 15.512361; 73.941361
Country India
StateGoa
DistrictNorth Goa
Sub DistrictIlhas
Government
 • TypePanchayat
 • Sarpanchunknown
Elevation
8 m (26 ft)
Population
 (2021)
 • Totalapprox. 300
DemonymGandaulicar
Languages
 • OfficialKonkani
 • Also spoken (understood)English, Marathi, Hindi
 • HistoricalPortuguese
Religions
 • DominantChristianity
 • MinorHinduism
 • HistoricalRoman Catholicism
Time zoneUTC+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 although there is no historical evidence in support of this theory.

History

Gandaulim might have been a spice trading post of the Republic of Ragusa in the Middle Ages.[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 of Dubrovnik.[1] These claims have since made to the popular memory of inhabitants of Gandaulim and Ragusans are now credited for the very construction of the church; however, the factual accuracy remains disputed.[1][3][lower-alpha 1]

Some historians have used these arguments to make questionable 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 the 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 propose that the Ragusans reached Portuguese Goa sometime between 1530 and 1535, went on to establish a colony, and declined in late seventeenth century.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tomas, Lora (19 May 2014). "Distant liaisons". Himal Southasian. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 Andrijanić, Ivan (26 February 2018). "Hrvatska i Indija: Kulturno-povijesne i gospodarsko-političke veze". Zbornik sveučilišta Libertas (in Croatian). Zagreb, Croatia: Libertas international university. 3 (3): 351. ISSN 2584-6167. U Goi, na zapadnoj obali indijskoga potkontinenta, trgovci iz Dubrovnika bogato su uresili crkvu Sv. Vlaha (São Braz). Na temelju toga svjedočanstva, koje navodi Jakov Lukarević (1605),[21] neki su istraživači pretpostavili postojanje dubrovačke kolonije São Braz u blizini Goe, ali za potvrdu te tvrdnje za sad nema dovoljno dokaza (Bašić, 1999: 85–93).
  3. 1 2 Mirkovich, Nicholas (1943). "Ragusa and the Portuguese Spice Trade". Slavonic and East European Review. American Series. 2 (1): 174–187. doi:10.2307/3020140. ISSN 1535-0940. JSTOR 3020140.
  4. ↑ "Why this Goan village will root for Croatia". The Times of India.
  5. ↑ "The Croats of Goa, India". 27 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Gaundalim Bridge, Goa | TPF". www.tpf.eu.
  7. ↑ "Gaundalim, Cumbarjua bridges opened for traffic". The Goan EveryDay.
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