Dear Fred, I appreciate your comments, but why should the promoters of the Great Tradition (as you call it) bother to present the versions of "Little Tradition"? Is the Goa case any exception to the rule? Even the so-called subaltern" versions that were in vogue two decades back through a combine of Indian historians connected with "Oxford", they were trying to build the alternate histories always in opposition to the received history, or call it the "Great Tradition". Personally, I do believe in the need of deconstructing" the received history and in breaking the stereotypes. My study of Ranes and the case of "Cuncolim martyrs" were attempts in that direction. I have yet to see anything more of that sort happening in recent Goan historiography. I expect more of it coming through literature (novels) than from the University trained historians! I could mention Italo Calvino as a paradigm of such expectations. You could find Indian equivalents of Calvino. Perhaps Pundalik Naik could evolve into one such for Goa. Teotonio
------Original Message------- From: Frederick Noronha Date: 03/22/05 18:25:17 To: Teotonio R. de Souza Cc: goa-research-net@goacom.com Subject: Re: [goa-research-net] Goa Indica with a Portuguese interlude? Looks like very much of a Great Tradition definition of Goan history. Wonder what happened to all the voices of the Little Tradition, and those who did not shape the writing of history probably because they lacked the tools to (e.g. literacy). FN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from Goa-Research-Net ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Send us a brief self-intro to justify your interest in this "specialized" forum. This should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT goa-research-net@goacom.com) * Leave SUBJECT blank * On first line of the BODY of your message, type: subscribe goa-research-net [EMAIL PROTECTED] or unsubscribe goa-research-net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------
