This is super-interesting, and I'm grateful to Dr. Figueiredo for undertaking this exercise - probably he's the only one who could do it - because it's certainly extremely useful to track, monitor and continually test even the most well-meaning and state-of-the-art modern historiography for its blind spots.
No one can say whether we're going to perceive some kind of middle ground to accommodate both Dr. Figueiredo's assertions and how we are currently enjoined to understand the colonial period. But even at first glance, it seems likely this discussion will again return to the fundamental paradox of Goa's colonial history, which underlines so.much of our culture and is also the fulcrum of Angela Barretto Xavier's stellar 2022 'Religion & Empire in Portuguese India' - the best history book of the Goans. That is: at some point, significant numbers of significant Goans stopped seeing themselves as colonials, or inferiors in any way to the Europeans, and they built their new Goan culture predicated on that knowledge and understanding. How that happened, we can't yet be very clear. But it did happen, and the phenomenon was real, which complicates our history - and the related historiography - in ways that have not been addressed satisfactorily yet. VM On Sun, 26 Mar 2023, 02:16 JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO, <[email protected]> wrote: > Attached please find the following post: > Notes on the History or "Escola Medico-Cirurgica de Goa": 2. Ideological > framework > Titles of previous posts: > Introduction > The scope of Dr. Bastos' research > The attached notes are copyrighted. All rights reserved. No part of this > series of posts may be copied, reproduced or transmitted by mechanical, > electronic or any other means without my prior permission. > The opinions expressed on the attached notes are my own and should not be > construed as endorsed by Yale University where I teach or any other > organization to which I belong, > > John M. de Figueiredo > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/2127449798.401596.1679777071907%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/2127449798.401596.1679777071907%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAN1wPW6XM0MrD0N9GRZoX%3DMdErmjX-NTtMNZeFLa9bDu7Jo-JA%40mail.gmail.com.
