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LUZ (Francisco Paulo Mendes da). O CONSELHO DA ÍNDIA. Lisboa. 1952. - LUZ (Francisco Paulo Mendes da) O CONSELHO DA ÍNDIA . Lisboa: Agência Geral do Ultramar, 1952. 650, [2] pp.: il.; 230 mm. A foundational study on the Council of India, an organization created in 1604 under Philip II of Portugal to centralize the administration of the affairs of the State of India in Lisbon. Based on extensive archival documentation, the work reconstructs the entire institutional evolution that precedes and succeeds the creation of the Council: the role of the Scribe of the Privy Council, Pedro de Alcáçova Carneiro, as responsible for India's affairs between 1530 and 1568, his replacement by three Secretaries of State, the Philippine period with the extinction of the overseers and the creation of the Treasury Council (1591), and the return to the three overseers under King John IV in 1641, thus tracing the administrative genealogy that would lead, after the period studied, to the Overseas Council of 1642. An indispensable reference work for the institutional history of the Portuguese empire in the East, still essential reading today. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate