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BENSAÚDE (Joaquim). ORIGINES du Plan des Indes: Études sur l' Histoire des Decouvertes Maritimes. Coimbra. 1929. - BENSAÚDE (Joaquim) ORIGINES du Plan des Indes: Études sur l' Histoire des Decouvertes Maritimes . Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1929. 148 pp.; 255 mm. Joaquim Bensaúde's study on the origins of the plan for the Indies in the 15th century, published in Coimbra in 1929 in his Études sur l'histoire des découvertes maritimes , argues that explorations along the West African coast aimed to reach the East, attributing to Prince Henry the Navigator an early plan for the Indies, inspired by a crusading spirit. The thesis provoked a response from Duarte Leite and gave rise to a controversy between the two historians, which Bensaúde further developed in A Cruzada do Infante D. Henrique (1942). ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate