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Goa Liberation Struggle The Portuguese retained their control over Goa, Daman and Diu even after the rest parts of India had gained freedom from the British. During the mid- fifties when the Lisbon Government refused to give up its claim over its ‘overseas colonies’, a large number of nationalists from other parts of India joined in the Goans in liberating the Portuguese colony. Bombay : Bombay had become a major centre of Goa liberation struggle from where many Goans and others planned their moves for forcing the Portuguese to quit Goa. However for a brief period, Pune had become a major centre of Goa Liberation struggle. In 1955, a large number of teams of Satyagrahis were sent from Pune to Goa to bring the territory into the national mainstream. Leaders of various regional and national political parties had joined the movement cutting across their political differences. The liberation movement which was initially restricted to Goans residing in Goa and to those settled ...