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COINS OF PORTUGUESE INDIA FOUND

The Ghat pathway connected British India and Portuguese India during the age of the spice trade. A cashew farmer clearing brush on his farm in what had been Portuguese Goa recently found artifacts from India’s colonial past, these being a hoard of 832 copper coins.

Ghat pathways are a rudimentary form of roads constructed mostly by the British Raj. The roads connect hill stations established in the mountains meant for those living in these remote regions. The Braganza Ghat was the only

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