José Silvestre Ferreira Bossa
GOC (Safara,
Moura, 20 July 1894 - 14 February 1970) was governor of
Portuguese India
The State of India ( pt, Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (''Estado Português da Índia'', EPI) or simply Portuguese India (), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a se ...
and the Colonial Minister during the
Estado Novo government of
António de Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar (, , ; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the re ...
.
He was the son of Eufrásio Caetano Bossa and Maria Ferreira.
On 11 May 1935 he was promoted from his position of ''Sub-Secretário de Estado das Colónias'' (''Sub-Secretary of State for the Colonies''), during the 7th government of António Salazar, to become the Minister Of The Colonies, until January 18, 1936 .
Between 1946 and 1947 he was appointed General Governor of Portuguese India by Portuguese President
Oscar Carmona
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. He was greatly opposed to Goan nationalism.
On 30 April 1946 he was made a Grand Officer of the Military
Order of Christ.
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Governors-General of Portuguese India
1970 deaths
1894 births
Portuguese people in Portuguese India
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