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GRACIAS (João Baptista Amancio). SUBSÍDIOS para a História Economico-Financeira da India Portugueza. Nova Goa. 1909. - GRACIAS (João Baptista Amancio) SUBSÍDIOS para a História Economico-Financeira da India Portugueza . Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1909. [8], 330, [2] pp.; 240 mm. João Baptista Amâncio Gracias (Loutulim, Salcete, 1872; Goa, 1950) was a historian and civil servant who served in Portuguese India, Mozambique, and Angola. He studied in Nova Goa and at the University of Bombay, and was the brother of the historian Caetano Gracias (1865–1944). His title page presents him as a second-class clerk in the senior treasury department of the State of India, a provincial associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Lisbon Geographical Society and the Coimbra Institute. Printed in Nova Goa, at the National Press, in 1909, the ”Contributions to the Economic and Financial History of Portuguese India” constitute a work on the economic and financial history of the State of India, which addresses, among other topics, the institution of the tanadares. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate