I am looking for one essay/article on Inquisition and Hinduvta, which I saw on one of research websites, that Teo uploaded. Forgot the link, and would like anyone to post it. -/ Bit surprised that the piece by Bravo Lourdes da Costa, in Sunday's OHeraldo, had the word "controversial" in the headline. She pointed out two articles, Ranes of Sattari, and Church and Goan Liberation. These don't seem to me as controversial. The Ranes article relied on historical background and references, and the Rane clan have enough money and political power to get a historian to defend them. But they contemplated defamation charges but never went firward with it. As for the Liberation piece, it stradles the past with the present, till after the first election. What's so controversial in that framing the Church as a supporter of the Portuguese rule? It was the Portuguese who brought Christianity to India and helped sustain and spread it. The facts are there and Teo hasn't invented them to butteress his vuewpoint. From him thiugh, the Church was structurally caste-based with the to with the top layer of Goan society. His attempt was to see to Church or socio-economic history from below. In a way, he can be considered a Goan Apostle of Subaltern studies in Goa, though the field lies largely unexplored. His economic history unravelled the bottom layers of society under Portuguese colonialism. The anti-Portuguese tag, so common in India to call anything and everything from slogans, journalism to history hat tackles the religious/communal ills of the country, applied to Teo is unwarranted and lacks rigidity of temperament to understand the implied message and penetrative thinking of someone engaged in understanding the impact of colonialism. Subalternity travelled from West to East, and Rajit Guha and his group looked at Indian histi in new lens. Since I haven't read Teo's Book, Postcolonialisation, which he saud he posted to me but I never received it. In an email, he has said it was collection of published articles. Now that he's gone, the vultures or the scavengers can descend.
Eugene Correia Sent from my iPad > On Feb 24, 2019, at 2:08 PM, Goanet Obits <goao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > his
