: How a 200-year-old embalmed heart connects Goa, Portugal and Brazil #IndiaNEWS His heart really will go on. Apologies to whoever wrote the saccharine lyrics to the Titanic hit song by Celine Dion.

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How a 200-year-old embalmed heart connects Goa, Portugal and Brazil #IndiaNEWS
His heart really will go on. Apologies to whoever wrote the saccharine lyrics to the Titanic hit song by Celine Dion. But I am referring here to an actual heart, the embalmed heart of Dom Pedro I (1798-1834), nicknamed “the Liberator�, the first Emperor of Brazil.September 7 marked the bicentenary of Brazil’s Declaration of Independence from Portugal, or more precisely the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.To mark the occasion, the former emperor’s heart was flown from Portugal to Brazil and received a ceremonial welcome usually accorded to a visiting head of state.Brazil’s colonial history is inexorably tied to Goa’s, as Ernestine Carreira’s exhaustively-researched (and thankfully translated into English) book Globalising Goa (1660-1820): Change and Exchange in a former Capital of Empire underscores. To quote one instance, emphasising “Goa’s place in the vast trading chain across the Portuguese empire�: “Since the 1660s, the government of Lisbon had allowed vessels from the Carreira da �ndia on their annual voyage to India to call in at Salvador de Bahia
. It even set up a customs-house there in the 1730s, with plentiful supplies of pepper from the Malabar coast,
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