Diu, on the Western India coast and Portuguese territory until 1961, was a strategic port connecting the subcontinent with Eastern Africa until the industrial mills in Western India provoked the decline of the traditional textile production systems in Gujarat and the near erasure of the maritime trade in Diu.

Sustained by ethnographic and archival research, this article shows how the decline of maritime trading from Diu exposed the lack of Portuguese control over the trading routes connecting Asia and Africa. Local communities responded to changing contexts by developing new migratory connections with Mozambique. Among them are the Diuese weavers’ community, the Vanza, whose role in Mozambican trade, and later postcolonial connections with European countries, is still mostly to be examined. Though a preliminary observation of their migratory initiatives we observe how lives across the Indian Ocean navigated relatively apart from colonial intentions, pursuing their own winds and tides.

直到1961年，Diu一直位于印度西部沿海和葡萄牙领土，是连接次大陆与东部非洲的战略港口，直到印度西部的工业工厂激起了古吉拉特邦传统纺织生产系统的衰落和印度沿海贸易的几乎消失。丢

在人种学和档案研究的支持下，本文显示了Diu海上贸易的下降如何暴露了葡萄牙对连接亚洲和非洲的贸易路线缺乏控制。当地社区通过与莫桑比克建立新的移民联系来应对不断变化的环境。其中包括Diuese织布工社区，Vanza，其在莫桑比克贸易中的作用以及后来与欧洲国家的后殖民联系仍然需要大量研究。尽管初步观察了他们的迁徙计划，但我们观察到整个印度洋的生活如何相对远离殖民地意图如何航行，追逐自己的风和潮。