Officially India intervened militarily in Goa on December 11 1961 after it had become evident that the economic blockade that had been in force against the colony since 1955 had not worked and the Portuguese administration was getting increasingly rep
On December 18, 1961, a platoon of the Indian Navy hoisted the Tricolour in the island of Anjadip off Canacona for the first time in the history of the last colonial outpost in the country. That was the beginning of the end of 451 years of .