Fifteen private family collections form the bulk of the holdings of the XCHR-Sussen Research Library. In addition to books from old Jesuit houses and those donated by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the teaching of the Portuguese language, supplemented by donations from the Portuguese Institute of Culture, some of the large collections came from prominent Goan personalities such as Professor Mariano Saldanha, a linguist who taught Sanskrit and Konkani in Lisbon for over two decades; Dr Jose Nicolau de Fonseca, author of the classic Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa (1978); and Mr Bras Fernandes, a co-founder and first secretary of the Bombay Historical Society (1925), which later grew into the Heras Historical Society (1956). The library also received books from other well-known Goan writers like Fr. Filinto Cristo Dias, a Portuguese linguist, and Mons. F.X.G. Catao, a Goan church historian.
The XCHR-Sussen Historical research Library now has about 15,000 books, including rare atlases, plus photocopies and cyclostyled Government records, reports, seminar papers, dissertations, bibliographies, paper clippings, and loose maps.

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