The foreign constitution of 1933 imposed bySalazar on the Goans, threw them into the abyss of an iron dictatorship thatdid not allow any political, economic, cultural advancement, etc. These Goanswere part of the Indian people who had not yet been liberated. Theywent through prisons, extreme poverty, racism, tribulation for the Hindumajority.
Salazar considered himself a messianic leader,therefore, with his doctrine of propagating “Western civilization” he intendedto “domesticate the wild indigenous people”. Shortlyafter World War II, all colonized peoples have vowed to destroy colonizingforces wherever it exists. In India, already free from theBritish colonial yoke, the democratic constitution of 1950 gave full freedom toits citizens. The Goans, for example, living in Mumbay (Bombay), knew what ademocracy was. On December 19, 1961, the mightyIndian army serving the largest democracy in the world came with the 1950 constitution, making the 1933 constitutionobsolete, which, curiously, even for Western Europe was completely“prehistoric”. Few Christian batkars (landlords)opposed liberation, and the Hindu majority was clearly supportive of their integration into Mother India, and among theChristian minority, hostility to the Portuguese colonizer and the desire forassociation with India predominated, even though, for some, with a status ofautonomy that preserves Goan specificity. There were, in addition to thebatkars, groups of “descendants” from Goa and the small mixed-race community ofDaman who opposed the liberation. The fact is that the overwhelming majority ofGoans would celebrate the advance of the Indian army as a liberation. After the liberation, this submissiveinsignificant minority, settled mainly in Portugal and the colony ofMozambique, came up with plan B, the utopian independence that vanished afterthe military coup in Lisbon in 1974. Two former members of the Casa de Goa fromLisbon told me that, as a last resort, after its foundation in the early years,this Casa emerged as a kind of Trojan horse to pinch the government of thestate of Goa. This was also the perception of some Goans who came from thecolony of Mozambique. Therefore, they did not join massively as members and, in parallel,founded ARCIP (Associação Recreativa Cultural Indo-Portuguesa). After 1961, theIndian state of Goa elected native Konkani-speaking leaders and no longer hadforeign governors-general and foreign bishops who only spoke Portuguese, alanguage unknown to the majority of the native population. The Constitution of India is thefundamental and supreme law of India. The document establishes the frameworkthat demarcates the fundamental political code, structure, procedures, powersand duties of government institutions and establishes the fundamental rights,guiding principles and duties of citizens. The Magna Carta. It is a permanentplebiscite, a participatory democracy. Does democracy have flaws? WinstonChurchill once said that “democracy is the worst regime except for all theothers.” Since 1991, India has riseneconomically very robustly, becoming the 3rd highest GDP in Asia. It benefiteda large number of Goans. Which are the top 5 GDP countries in the world? The US, China, Japan, Germany, andIndia, respectively, hold those positions in 2023. According to IMF data. Goa is neither Gaza strip, nor Somalia, nor Sudan, norEast Timor. Timor-Leste is the Least Developed Country and isheavily dependent on Indonesia according to the World Bank. And whatabout Macau and H.Kong integrated into China? On this day of liberation of Goa :“-Jai Hind”. -- 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/1349558326.2152165.1702892600292%40mail.yahoo.com.
