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Gaspar Correia was a Portuguese historian born in 1492 who spent most of his life in Portuguese India. He is best known for Lendas da Índia (Legends of India), one of the earliest and most significant works on Portuguese rule in Asia, and for writing the first European account of Asiatic Cholera.
Gaspar Correia served as scrivener to Afonso de Albuquerque, reportedly from around 1512-14. He held the role with great pride and the position gave him access to privileged sources unavailable to rival historians Fernão Lopes de Castanheda and João de Barros.
The first part of Lendas da Índia was published in 1858 and the second part in 1864, both by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. The 3,500-page manuscript had been kept from wide circulation since Correia's death around 1563, with copies circulated only among authorised persons.
Miguel da Gama brought the 3,500-page manuscript from India to Portugal shortly after Correia's death around 1563. Correia's family retained the original, and copies were circulated only among authorised persons until the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon finally printed it in the nineteenth century.
Correia died around 1563 in Goa. One theory holds that he was murdered in Portuguese Malacca by order of Governor Estêvão da Gama, the son of Vasco da Gama, though no proof has confirmed this account.
Correia's Lendas da Índia drew on thirty-five years of firsthand experience in India and on privileged sources unknown to contemporaries Fernão Lopes de Castanheda and João de Barros. Despite its rough writing style, scholars have judged it an indispensable contemporary reference on Portuguese rule in Asia.