Indians in Portugal explained

Group:Indians in Portugal
Population:85,000 – 120,000
Popplace:LisbonPortoAlgarveSão TeotónioPegões (Montijo)Santarém, Benavente
Langs:PortugueseKonkaniTamilMalayalamGujaratiTeluguKutchiMarathiKannadaEnglishlanguageHindi
Rels:Christianity (Roman Catholicism)HinduismSikhismIslamJainism
Related-C:Konkani people, Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin, Desi, Nepali, Indian immigration to Brazil, Indians in Spain

Indians in Portugal, including recent immigrants and people who trace their ancestry back to India, together number around 80,000 (2018 data)[1] −120,000 (2021 data).[2] Between 2018 and 2022 around 32,000 Indians entered the country, settling mostly in Lisbon and Porto.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] They thus constitute 0.76% – 1.15% of the total population of Portugal.

Indians are also found in the Algarve, Coimbra, Guarda, Leiria, Odemira,[8] and Rio Maior.[9]

The majority of Indians in Portugal consist of Goans, Gujaratis, Tamilians, Malayali people from Daman and Diu and Tamil Nadu.

The 2010s, particularly the second half of the decade, saw the start of a new immigration wave of Indians to Portugal, as well as of citizens of other South Asian nationals – namely Nepalis, Bengalis and Pakistanis – propelled mainly by the need of unskilled agricultural workers.

History

See also: Chinese people in Portugal and Slavery in Portugal.

In sixteenth century southern Portugal, there were Chinese slaves but the number of them was described as "negligible", being outnumbered by East Indian, Mourisco, and African slaves.[10] Amerindians, Chinese, Malays, and Indians were slaves in Portugal but in far fewer number than Turks, Berbers and Arabs.[11] China and Malacca were origins of slaves delivered to Portugal by Portuguese viceroys.[12]

A Portuguese woman, Dona Ana de Ataíde owned an Indian man named António as a slave in Évora.[13] He served as a cook for her.[14] Ana de Ataíde's Indian slave escaped from her in 1587.[15] A large number of slaves were forcibly brought there since the commercial, artisanal, and service sectors all flourished in a regional capital like Évora.[16] Rigorous and demanding tasks were assigned to Mourisco, Chinese, and Indian slaves.[17] Chinese, Mouriscos, and Indians were among the ethnicities of prized slaves and were much more expensive compared to blacks, so high class individuals owned these ethnicities.[18]

A fugitive Indian slave from Evora named António went to Badajoz after leaving his master in 1545.[19] António was among the three most common male names given to male slaves in Evora.[20]

Antão Azedo took an Indian slave named Heitor to Evora, who along with another slave was from Bengal were among the 34 Indian slaves in total who were owned by Tristão Homem, a nobleman in 1544 in Evora. Manuel Gomes previously owned a slave who escaped in 1558 at age 18 and he was said to be from the "land of Prester John of the Indias" named Diogo.[21]

In Evora, men were owned and used as slaves by female establishments like convents for nuns. A capelão do rei, father João Pinto left an Indian man in Porto where he was picked up in 1546 by the Evora-based Santa Marta convent's nuns to serve as their slave. However, female slaves did not serve in male establishments, unlike vice versa.[22]

Japanese Christian Daimyos mainly responsible for selling to the Portuguese their fellow Japanese. Japanese women and Japanese men, Javanese, Chinese, and Indians were all sold as slaves in Portugal.[23]

Traits such as high intelligence were ascribed to Indians, Chinese, and Japanese slaves.[24] [25] [26]

Notable people with Indian ancestry

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Population of Overseas Indians .
  2. Web site: 5 May 2021 . Uma comunidade indiana em Portugal diversa e dialogante na fé . 2023-09-04 . SIC Notícias . pt.
  3. Web site: Sefstat 2018 .
  4. Web site: Sefstat 2019 .
  5. Web site: Sefstat 2020 .
  6. Web site: Sefstat 2021 .
  7. Web site: Sefstat 2022 .
  8. https://www.publico.pt/2021/04/30/local/noticia/infectados-trancas-porta-insalubres-alojamentos-imigrantes-1960691 (in Portuguese)
  9. https://www.cm-riomaior.pt/municipio/documentacao/atas-e-deliberacoes/atas/camara/2019-3/1564-ata-n-08-de-29-04-2019/file (in Portuguese)
  10. Book: UNC Press Books. 2007. The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624. 228. Peter C. Mancall. 978-0-8078-3159-5. illustrated. 2014-02-02.
  11. Book: Nova Fronteira. 2014. https://books.google.com/books?id=mpxUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT584 . 25 Escravo ugual a negro. A manilha e o libambo: A África e a escravidão, de 1500 a 1700. Alberto da Costa e Silva. 978-8520939499. 2. 2014-02-02.
  12. Book: Simon and Schuster. 1997. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 – 1870. registration. 119. Hugh Thomas. 0684835657. illustrated, reprint. 2014-02-02.
  13. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora . 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 21. Jorge Fonseca. 9729696535. 2014-02-02.
  14. Book: Celta Editora. 2002. Oeiras. pt. A Agricultura: Dicionário das Ocupações, Nuno Luís Madureira (coord.), História do Trabalho e das Ocupações. III . 162. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida. Andrade Martins Conceição . Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro. 972-774-133-9. 2014-02-02.
  15. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora . 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 31. Jorge Fonseca. 9729696535. 2014-02-02.
  16. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora . 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 31. Jorge Fonseca. 9729696535. 2014-02-02.
  17. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora. 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 21. Jorge Fonseca. 972-96965-3-5. 2014-02-02.
  18. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora. 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 21. Jorge Fonseca. 972-96965-3-5. 2014-02-02.
  19. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora . 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 103. Jorge Fonseca. 9729696535. 2014-02-02.
  20. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora. 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 24. Jorge Fonseca. 9729696535. 2014-02-02.
  21. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora . 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 21. Jorge Fonseca. 9729696535. 2014-02-02.
  22. Book: Câmara Municipal de Évora . 1997. pt. Os escravos em Évora no século XVI. 2 of Colecção "Novos estudos eborenses" Volume 2 of Novos Estudos e Eborenses. 45. Jorge Fonseca. 9729696535. 2014-02-02.
  23. Book: Chòque luso no Japão dos séculos XVI e XVII. José Yamashiro. 1989. IBRASA. 103. 85-348-1068-0. 14 July 2010.
  24. Book: Cambridge University Press. 1982. A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441–1555. 25 of 3: Works, Hakluyt Society Hakluyt Society. 168. 0-521-23150-7. A. C. de C. M. Saunders. illustrated. 2014-02-02.
  25. Book: Himalaya Pub. House. 1992. Slavery in Portuguese India, 1510–1842. 18. Jeanette Pinto. 2014-02-02.
  26. Book: Oxford U.P.. 1968. Fidalgos in the Far East 1550–1770. 225. 9780196380742. Charles Ralph Boxer. 2, illustrated, reprint. 2014-02-02.
  27. Web site: 24 April 2019 . Catarina Furtado tem ascendência indiana! Apresentadora descobre casa do trisavô . 2023-09-04 . Maria.pt . pt-PT.

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