Question:India and Portugal have signed a historical agreement recently to promote cooperation in the field of –
(a) Agriculture
(b) Tourism
(c) Archives
(d) Information and technology
Answer- (c)
Related facts:
- On May 17, 2017a‘Protocol of Cooperation’was signed between the National Archives of India and the Minister of Culture of the Portuguese Republic at Lisbon.
- This Historical agreement will promote Cooperation in the field of Archives.
- As a first step under this agreement, the Torre do Tombo (National Archives of Portugal) handed over to the National Archives of India digital copies of 62 volumes of the collection known as ‘Moncoes do Reino’ (Monsoon correspondence).
- These volumes were originally part of over 456 volumes that cover the period from 1568 to 1914 and form the largest of all record collections in the Goa State Archives.
- These 62 volumes, consisting of over 12,000 documents, pertaining to the period from 1605 to 1651 were shifted from Goa to Lisbon in 1777.
- These were subsequently printed in Lisbon under the title ‘Documentos Remetidos da India’ (Documents sent from India) by the Academy of Science at Lisbon between 1880 and 1893.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/mobile/mbHErel.aspx?relid=65590
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=165774
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