To Nuno: As the old phrase of Viceroy Count of São Vicente goes (repeated over and over), “a India (Portuguesa) só se vê de muito longe e só se ouve muito tarde” (Portuguese India is only seen from far away and heard too late). With flowers turned into concrete (as Vivek Menezes described), Goa is gone with the monsoon.JM de Figueiredo Sent from my iPhone On Dec 11, 2023, at 1:24 PM, 'Nuno Cardoso da Silva' via Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]> wrote:
Being myself Portuguese, I always thought that the honourable thing for us to do, would have been granting self-rule to Goa, maybe within a confederal status with Portugal. A solution which should have been extended to all "Overseas Provinces". Unfortunately most of us were not that smart...
Nuno Cardoso da Silva
Thanks Sandra. I was aware of him being a lawyer, as his play is a 'tragi-comedy'. Obviously, he was for Goa to be run by Goans. But, it was a long shot, and the reality of it was not very visible to those who fought for freedom. Portugal should have done like France did in Pondicherry, but with a twist. The colonial masters should have selected a bunch of eminent Goans, some of them in Parliament, and asked them to take over.
A lost opportunity for Portugal to act honourably and bravely and earn the respect of the world. Goans would be happy, but the stakes were high in administrating Goa.
Eugene
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I saw in my small collection, a tattered copy of Yesterday, Today and... Tomorrow, A Tragicomedy in Three Acts and Twelve Scenes, by A.A Bruto da Costa, and I suppose he was a Doctor, perhaps a medical doctor. It was published in 1963.
However, I post here to know if anyone has a copy, for the first page of mine is tattered and the cover-page and inside page is unreadable. If some has the play, I wish to get a copy of the cover and inside pages. I read it decades ago, and since the Goa Liberation anniversary is coming up, I wish to quote from it. I am not very sure know if the play was an attempt at India's takeover of Goa and what the future holds or was it predicting a "tragicomedy", as Bruto da Costa envisaged Goa would become in later years.
I know he addressed a Letter to Nehru, but don't know where I could locate it. Does anyone know if it's in the Goa University Library or elsewhere?
Also re-reading, Goan Struggle for Freedom by M.K. Gandhi, published by Navajivan Publishing House. Recollecting Liberation and the glow of freedom. Where has Goa gone?
Eugene Correia
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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 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:
FN
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