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Bilateral relations / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portuguese-India Relations describe foreign relations between post-independence India and Portugal and cover a period starting from 1947. These relations, which started off amicably - following the spirit of relations between Portugal and the British Indian Empire - went into decline after 1950 over Portugal's refusal to surrender its enclaves of Goa, Daman and Diu on the west coast of India. By 1955, the two nations had cut off all diplomatic relations, simmering a crisis which precipitated in the Invasion of Portuguese India in 1961. Portugal refused to recognize Indian sovereignty over the annexed territories until 1974 when, following the Carnation Revolution, the new government in Lisbon restored diplomatic relations with India, and recognized Indian sovereignty over Goa, Daman and Diu.