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The Portuguese were very successful commercially, for about a century. Then in 1580, Portugal itself was taken over by Spain, which was involved in long and costly wars with the English and Dutch. Portuguese resources waned and their maritime supremacy in India was challenged by the English. In 1612, the English East India Company defeated the Portuguese off Surat. In 1618, the English made an agreement with the Mughals to protect sea traffic from the Portuguese in return for important trading privileges. In 1622, the English East India Company's maritime arm defeated the Portuguese at the strong point of Ormuz in the Persian Gulf, and the Portuguese then became a minor political and commercial force in India. They retained control of Goa until 1950, when the Indian Army forcibly united Goa with the rest of independent India. "<ref>Spear, Percival ''A History of India'' (Volume Two) (1978) by pp.62-67 </ref>

Source : '''A History of India''' ==Places associated with the Portuguese==*[[Bombay (Volume TwoCity) (1978) by Percival Spear pp.62-67 |Bombay]]*[[Calicut]]*[[Cannanore]]*[[Cochin]]*[[Goa]] including [[Marmagao]]

Marco Ramerini has compiled a collection of Portuguese Colonial History Links and has an extensive site on == Church Records =='''See also general article: [[http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ Dutch and Portuguese Colonial Possessions in Asia 1498-1961.Church records]]'''

If However, your Portuguese ancestors were baptised, married or buried in a European church may not have lived in British India, then the church records should have been transcribed and sent to the capital (i.e. that portion of India that was controlled by the Presidency, where they would later have been forwarded on British - this grew from a very small area in 1600 to London. These records were indexed and about 80% almost all of church records in British India are believed to have survivedby 1947). You can access these In this case, the church records will not be kept at the [[APAC]] in the British Library in London, or at [[LDS]] [[Family History Centres]]. The FIBIS website has extensive information on locating [[church records]] on microfilm for British India.

However, your Portuguese ancestors may not have lived Pauline McGregor Currien has transcribed indexes to baptisms in British India (ithe [http://web.archive.org/web/20070515051155/users.rootsweb.ecom/~indwgw/lisbon. that portion of India that was controlled by the htm British Factory at Lisbon, Portugal 1721- this grew from a very small area in 1600 to almost all of India by 1947). In this case, the church records will not be kept in the [[APAC]1807] at the British Library.

===LDS===Some Portuguese church records have been microfilmed by the [[LDS]] and are available at [[LDS]] [[Family History Centres]]. Records of visits by the Archbishop of Goa or his representative to review the spiritual affairs of each parish and its members, 1747-1927, are available on two microfilms numbered '''1566354''' and '''1566355'''.

The LDS have also microfilmed records of 146 locations within Goa. These are listed on the FIBIS website under [[Goa Church Records]].

Pauline McGregor Currien has transcribed indexes to baptisms in the ===FIBIS resources===*[http://webwww.archivesearch.fibis.org/webfrontis/20070515051155bin/usersaps_browse_sources.rootswebphp?mode=browse_components&id=123&s_id=127 St.com/~indwgw/lisbon.htm British Factory at Lisbon, Portugal 1721Thomas' Mount Portuguese Mission Church] transcription of Baptism Registers 1751 -1807.]1880

The following are books relating to the Portuguese in India are currently available : ==References== '''The Portuguese in India''' (New Cambridge History of India Volume One)By Michael Naylor Pearson. Hardcover edition (1988).  '''Albuquerque and Early Portuguese Settlement in India'''By H. Morse Stephens. Hardcover reprint edition (2000).  '''Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India'''By Henry Scholberg. Hardcover edition (1982). <references />

'''The Portuguese in India'''==External links==By Frederick C. Danvers. Hardcover reprint edition (1988). *[http://www.archivecolonialvoyage.orgcom/stream/portugueseinindi015750mbp#page/n1/mode/2up ''The Dutch and Portuguese Colonial Possessions in Asia 1498-1961] - Marco Ramerini has compiled a collection of Portuguese In India Being A Colonial History Of The Rise And Decline Of Their Eastern Empire. Volume 1''] by Frederick Charles Danvers 1894 Archive,org. Please note this volume is incomplete Links and only contains the first 160 pages. [http://wwwhas an extensive site.archive.org/stream/portugueseinindi02danv#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2'']