Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Maps 1. Studying decolonization 2. Entangling decolonizations: Goa, Mozambique and Angola 3. Emigrating Goans 4. Goans going fishing76 5. Dispossessing things106 6. Driving from Angola to South Africa 7. Renovating in Beira164 Reflecting: From Mozambique to Goa Notes Bibliography Index

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Examines the decolonization process in Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa through a historical and ethnographic lens, focusing on the movement of people, ideas and objects throughout the Indian Ocean world.

About the Author

Pamila Gupta is Associate Professor at WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the co-editor of Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean (2010) and the author of The Relic State: St. Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India (2014).