Eugene,
To be defeated by a much stronger power which didn't give a damn about international law could never humble or disgrace Portugal, but it certainly disgraced the fake pacifist who then ruled India. Having said this, I repeat that Portugal should have recognized Goa's right to self rule and should have negotiated with all Overseas Provinces a treaty which would have recognized their sovereignty and the right of the peoples of all territories to freely travel to and establish themselves in any other of those territories. Something we may soon have in our present days, but which could have been achieved much sooner and much more peacefully.
Nuno Cardoso da Silva
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From: "Eugene Correia" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [GRN] Pamphlets
Well, Portugal withdrew from East Timor, as the independence movement was fierce. I don't think Portugal keeping East Timor as one of its colonies would be a financial benefit. Seemingly, East Timor was a "basket case' for Portugal while Goa was a "rich basket". Colonial politics in those times rested on "gains and loses" and Portugal let go off of East Timor but reluctantly held on to Goa.
As events proved later on, Indian patience ran out. Knowing well that Salszar would find it difficult to keep Goa in its embrace by engaging India in a war, it was a walk-over as we know it. Goa's freedom did ring a bell in African countries and the Non-Alignment Movement gained momentum and slowly but surely the continent of Africa was free of colonial rule. No self-respecting people like subjugation by a foreign power when the people's consciousness and national pride comes to the fore.
What would happen to Goa if it continued to be under Portuguese rule is nobody's guess. France was wise, as it earned respect. Portugal was humbled and disgraced. History is dotted with such examples.
Eugene Correia
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 6:07 PM Edgar Valles <[email protected]> wrote:
Portugal should have done like France did in Pondicherry?No, Portugal should have done what the United Nations did in Timor-Leste, also a colony in Asia...Aviso de Confidencialidade
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Eugene Correia <[email protected]> escreveu no dia segunda, 11/12/2023 à(s) 14:05: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.EugeneOn Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 3:51 AM sandra lobo <[email protected]> wrote:Bruto da Costa was a lawyer, journalist and politician who defended the right of Goan people to decide their own political future
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Assunto: Re: [GRN] PamphletsI 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 CorreiaEugene CorreiaOn Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 10:04 AM V M <[email protected]> wrote: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,VMOn 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:FN--
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