Dear Frederick, Thank you very much for that German resource on Swahili - it turns out the first known written literature in that language was found in Goa! Amazing fact. I will examine closely for more places to look.
About the avid embrace of English language education by Goans in Goa from the first decades of the 19th century, yes it is true it happened first in the Bardez villages where the majority of educated men went off to work in British India (and later to Persia, Aden, East Africa and Singapore as well). But by the 20th century, it was routine for all families of means to send their children to study in boarding schools across the border in Belgaum, Pune and much farther afield as well. It has always fascinated me how disproportionately the Goans were represented from the beginning of college education "for natives" in Bombay - the first class at Grant Medical College was half Goans! Warm regards, VM On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, 02:06 fredericknoronha, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 5 December 2023 at 19:08:55 UTC+5:30 vmingoa wrote: > > Goans in Goa pursued English language education with much alacrity from > the second half of the 19th century. Few peoples anywhere - but especially > the subcontinent - have ever embraced English so enthusiastically as the > Goans. There's no question of imposition but merely access to opportunity, > and Portuguese lost out for very good reasons. > > > > *Would you see this as happening uniformly across Goa or in some pockets > (such as parts of Bardez, and among the daispora in the then English-ruled > regions)?* > > > > Elsewhere, of course, like all other Indians in their transnational > dispersal, Goans have adopted and mastered a wide range of languages.I have > been looking for Goan writing in Swahili. There must be some. If anyone has > references, please share. > > > *Check this an example here:* > > https://afrika.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_afrika/Swahili/literatur_prae_uhuru.pdf > <https://afrika.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_afrika/Swahili/literatur_prae_uhuru.pdf> > > FN > > -- > 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/5f809d03-ee9e-4c06-8349-ac5197d98a45n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/5f809d03-ee9e-4c06-8349-ac5197d98a45n%40googlegroups.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/CAN1wPW5FafnKEpajsOt3FB96vVXzobQWtjMG48%2BVZBRASUWozw%40mail.gmail.com.
