Gandaulim (Ilhas)

Gandaulim

Gaundalim
Gandaulim Gaundalim
Village
	Igreja de Sao Bras, Gandaulim
	Gandaulim
	Coordinates: 15°30′44.5″N 73°56′28.9″E / 15.512361°N 73.941361°E
Country	India
State	Goa
District	North Goa
Sub District	Ilhas
Government
• Type	Panchayat
• Sarpanch	unknown
Elevation	8 m (26 ft)
Population (2021)
• Total	approx. 300
Demonym	Gandaulicar
Languages
• Official	Konkani
• Also spoken (understood)	English, Marathi, Hindi
• Historical	Portuguese
Religions
• Dominant	Christianity
• Minor	Hinduism
• Historical	Roman Catholicism
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Postcode	403505
Telephone code	08343

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.

History

Gandaulim might have been a spice trading post of the Republic of Ragusa in the early modern period.^[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 in Dubrovnik.^[1] These claims have since been adopted into the popular memory of the inhabitants of Gandaulim, and Ragusans are now credited for the very construction of the church; however, the factual accuracy of this remains disputed.^[1]^[3]^[a]

Some historians have used these arguments to make assumptions about the existence of a Ragusan colony.^[2]^[1]^[b] 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]

Gallery

Gandaulim was a site of a historical fortress, which was demolished in early 21st century for a road expansion project.

Gandaulim Fort Entrance Gate
Gandaulim Fort Entrance Gate after Demolition
Gandaulim Fort Entrance Gate post Demolition

Notes

^ Croatian author Ivo Šišević has claimed an inspiration from St. Saviour Church, Dubrovnik.^[1]
^ A major proponent of this theory is Croatian diplomat-historian Darko Bekić, who proposed that the Ragusans reached Portuguese Goa sometime between 1530 and 1535 and went on to establish a colony, which declined in late 17th century.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Tomas, Lora (19 May 2014). "Distant liaisons". Himal Southasian. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
^ ^a ^b Andrijanić, Ivan (26 February 2018). "Hrvatska i Indija: Kulturno-povijesne i gospodarsko-političke veze". Zbornik sveučilišta Libertas (in Croatian). 3 (3). Zagreb, Croatia: Libertas international university: 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).
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ "Why this Goan village will root for Croatia". The Times of India.
^ "The Croats of Goa, India". 27 May 2018.
^ "Gaundalim Bridge, Goa | TPF". www.tpf.eu.
^ "Gaundalim, Cumbarjua bridges opened for traffic". The Goan EveryDay.

[4] Croatian author Ivo Šišević has claimed an inspiration from St. Saviour Church, Dubrovnik.^[1]

[5] A major proponent of this theory is Croatian diplomat-historian Darko Bekić, who proposed that the Ragusans reached Portuguese Goa sometime between 1530 and 1535 and went on to establish a colony, which declined in late 17th century.^[1]

[:1-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Tomas, Lora (19 May 2014). "Distant liaisons". Himal Southasian. Retrieved 20 September 2021.

[:0-2] Andrijanić, Ivan (26 February 2018). "Hrvatska i Indija: Kulturno-povijesne i gospodarsko-političke veze". Zbornik sveučilišta Libertas (in Croatian). 3 (3). Zagreb, Croatia: Libertas international university: 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).

[:2-3] 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.

[6] "Why this Goan village will root for Croatia". The Times of India.

[7] "The Croats of Goa, India". 27 May 2018.

[8] "Gaundalim Bridge, Goa | TPF". www.tpf.eu.

[9] "Gaundalim, Cumbarjua bridges opened for traffic". The Goan EveryDay.

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