Operation Vijay (Hindi: विजय Vijay, lit. "Victory"), the code name of the armed action, was an action by the Indian Armed Forces that ended the rule of Portugal in its exclaves in India in 1961. The operation involved air, sea and land strikes for over 36 hours, and was a decisive victory for India, ending 451 years of Portuguese overseas provincial governance in Goa. The war lasted two days and twenty-two Indians and thirty Portuguese were killed in the fighting. The brief conflict drew a mixture of worldwide praise and condemnation. In India, the action was seen as a liberation of historically Indian territory, while Portugal viewed it as an aggression against national soil and its citizens.