Author: Miranda, Jose Francisco Barreto
Title: Nas vesperas da festa : Centenario da India (Carta de um indio a D. Vasco da Gama)
Description: n.p. [Margao, Goa], n.p. [author], 1897. orig. wrappers. 22x14cm,, (8), 31 pp,, Creased. Published in an edition of 300 copies. Inscribed by author on half title. Review slip pasted to front inside cover.. Rubbed. Foxed. Spine chipped. Wrapper frayed, just Good. ¶ A colonial Goa imprint. Not listed in Worldcat. Preface dated May 31,1897. Portuguese India colonial political poetry, issued in the immediate wake of Jose Luciano's " progressistas" ascent to power in Lisbon, February 1897. [from the preface: " Isto que se vae ler nao e um ataque aos progressistas que estao no poder, nem sequer um suelto aos regeneradores do governo transacto... este livro e o grito da indignacao de um indio pelo berco e portuguez pelo coracao, que combate as rompantes e soberbas festancas do quarto centenario do descubrimento do caminho maritomo para o Oriente...eu protesto n'estas paginas agrestes contra essas 'festas espaventosas'... Viva a Patria! Viva Portugal!"}.

Keywords: Portuguese India, Goa Colony, Portugal Colonies, Portuguese, Literature, Political Poetry, South Asia, India, Colonialism, Colonial History