From: "'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net" <[email protected]>
To: "Goa-Research-Net" <[email protected]>
Subject: [GRN] Goa, 19/12/1961: The Portuguese constitution of 1933 and the Indian constitution of 1950
The foreign constitution of 1933 imposed by Salazar on the Goans, threw them into the abyss of an iron dictatorship that did not allow any political, economic, cultural advancement, etc. These Goans were part of the Indian people who had not yet been liberated. They went through prisons, extreme poverty, racism, tribulation for the Hindu majority.
Salazar considered himself a messianic leader, therefore, with his doctrine of propagating “Western civilization” he intended to “domesticate the wild indigenous people”.
Shortly after World War II, all colonized peoples have vowed to destroy colonizing forces wherever it exists.
In India, already free from the British colonial yoke, the democratic constitution of 1950 gave full freedom to its citizens. The Goans, for example, living in Mumbay (Bombay), knew what a democracy was.
On December 19, 1961, the mighty Indian army serving the largest democracy in the world came with the 1950 constitution, making the 1933 constitution obsolete, 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 the Christian minority, hostility to the Portuguese colonizer and the desire for association with India predominated, even though, for some, with a status of autonomy that preserves Goan specificity. There were, in addition to the batkars, groups of “descendants” from Goa and the small mixed-race community of Daman who opposed the liberation. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of Goans would celebrate the advance of the Indian army as a liberation.
After the liberation, this submissive insignificant minority, settled mainly in Portugal and the colony of Mozambique, came up with plan B, the utopian independence that vanished after the military coup in Lisbon in 1974. Two former members of the Casa de Goa from Lisbon 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 the state of Goa. This was also the perception of some Goans who came from the colony of Mozambique. Therefore, they did not join massively as members and, in parallel, founded ARCIP (Associação Recreativa Cultural Indo-Portuguesa). After 1961, the Indian state of Goa elected native Konkani-speaking leaders and no longer had foreign governors-general and foreign bishops who only spoke Portuguese, a language unknown to the majority of the native population.
Since 1991, India has risen economically very robustly, becoming the 3rd highest GDP in Asia. It benefited a large number of Goans. Which are the top 5 GDP countries in the world? The US, China, Japan, Germany, and India, respectively, hold those positions in 2023. According to IMF data.
Goa is neither Gaza strip, nor Somalia, nor Sudan, nor East Timor. Timor-Leste is the Least Developed Country and is heavily dependent on Indonesia according to the World Bank. And what about Macau and H.Kong integrated into China?
On this day of liberation of Goa :“-Jai Hind”.
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