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Portuguese Connection

Administration
Albuquerque established the Portuguese authority over Goa and took a series of measures to safeguard it.

He made drills compulsory for the troops to keep them physically fit, allowed Portuguese men to marry local women in order to create a loyal population to be known as Casados, who got homes, cultivable lands, provisions and government jobs to settle.

Their offspring could be recruited to the Army and the Navy to raise a local defense force.

He built churches and a hospital and established a municipal council. He banned Sati, the practice of burning a widow on the funeral pyre of her husband, followed by the Hindus. After his death on December 15, 1515, Lopo Soares took over.

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