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"The people are conversant more with English than Portuguese in spite of 450 years of Portuguese rule."

It says a lot.

"The Government of India approached Lisbon also with the suggestion that it should withdraw. But the latter maintained that the settlements were part of metropolitan Portugal and it was “unable to discuss, and much less accept, the solution pro¬ posed by the Indian Government."'