Roland
........... _one or a group, I wonder if all the Goans who have made
Portuguese passports and left en masse for Britain and Europe,
continuing to do so till today, spare a thought for those who have
made it possible for them to have changed their lives_.
My take:
The Portuguese passport is emptying Goa, with the majority of
Catholics not skilled in London, where they are exploited. The ghost
of the colonizer or Salazar continues to harm Goa. Few Hindus from Goa
queue up outside the foreign consulate. The ghost of the Inquisition
prevents them from going there.
----- Mensagem de Roland Francis <[email protected]> ---------
Data: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:03:45 -0400
De: Roland Francis <[email protected]>
Assunto: Re: [GRN] DAY OF JOY
Para: [email protected]
Thank you for your usual erudition John. You say something which
continues to make the subject more and more interesting to me.
The next question that pops up is what made Salazar repeal the Act.
Wiki gives credit (almost solely it seems) to Froilano de Melo.
Quote
The Act was repealed only in 1950, in part because of the
contributions of Froilano de Mello[1], a Goan[2] Catholic doctor and
an independent member of parliament[3] in Lisbon[4].[1][5] He
represented Goa in the Assembly of the Republic[6]. He fought for
the rights of Portuguese Indians. De Mello was so successful that,
from 1950, Goans regained their status and were treated in equal
terms like other Portuguese citizens from the metropolis.[1][5]
I don’t think a hardhead like Salazar would be swayed by the soft
graces of a Goan intellectual. Without diminishing Dr De Melo’s
role, he Salazar being an economist, there must have been a
practical, monetary push that made him repeal it.
Whoever it was, one or a group, I wonder if all the Goans who have
made Portuguese passports and left en masse for Britain and Europe,
continuing to do so till today, spare a thought for those who have
made it possible for them to have changed their lives.
Froilano de Melo is the uncle of Adelino Francisco de Melo to whom
my maternal aunt Emilia Araujo (of Loutolim) was married. Almost
every summer holiday I spent in Goa was at Benaulim in that
ancestral house where I drank, dined and made merry under the
penetrating, watchful eyes of a large portrait of Froilano de Melo,
who by the way with his white goatee had the demeanour of the Count
of Monte Cristo. I knew little of him then, other than that he was
married to a Swiss woman whose pictures also hung in that hall.
Roland.
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 1:52 AM John de Figueiredo
<[email protected]> wrote:
Roland is asking about the harm done to the Goans, not Africans.
While I am not an expert in Constitutional Law, this is my understanding:
Following the trend initiated by Pombal and by Dom Pedro IV, the
1911 Constitution envisioned progressive decentralization of the
administration of the overseas territories with the goal of they
eventually becoming self-governing entities. The Acto Colonial and
the 1933 Constitution reversed that trend and redefined those
territories as “Império Colonial Português”. So the Goans, all the
sudden, were redefined as assimilated (Lusified) colonial subjects.
Which means that the people of Goa would never become a
self-governing entity. In essence, it established two classes of
citizens. This legislation could be invoked to justify all sorts of
discriminatory policies that had been abolished since the days of
Pombal. For example, individuals who wanted to join the military
had to have both parents born in Portugal. The sons of a Portuguese
European, Ruy da Cunha Menezes, a distinguished member of the
Portuguese military, could not join the armed forces because his
wife was Brazilian. The family moved to Brazil where they
distinguished themselves in the Brazilian armed forces.
This is why I cannot understand how those individuals who believe
that Goa was a colony (whatever “colony” means) can logically also
condemn the Acto Colonial. It seems to me they should have
applauded it instead of condemning it. Unless, of course, they
believe that only the Goans can say that Goa was a colony, and not
Europeans like Dr. Oliveira Salazar.
Menezes Bragança condemned the Acto Colonial because he believed
that Goa was an integral part of the Portuguese Nation and in many
ways different from the rest of India, and that the Goans were
equal to those born in Minho or Algarve, and that they should have
the right to decide on their future. In short, he believed in the
doctrine of the 1911 Constitution.
I already discussed this in greater detail during my conversation
with Dr. Cristiana Bastos.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 10, 2024, at 10:29 PM, 'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net <
[email protected]> wrote:
Roland
The Colonial Act, which will form part of the future Constitution
of 1933, defines all occupied territories as an Empire.
Colonization was seen as a divine plan for the nation and the
civilizing work would be based, not on education or religion, but
on work. The Indigenous Statute was approved, which racially,
socially and culturally discriminated against natives and gave
them the conditions for acquiring citizenship.
The fields become crops with a single and obligatory culture, as
was the case with cotton in Angola and Mozambique, with the black
population forced to cultivate it to the detriment of their own
subsistence. Hunger, disease and violence against the natives
became widespread, which would later give rise to the first
legitimate revolts against the Portuguese State, as happened in
the north of Angola, in 1961, with the peasants of Baixa do
Cassange.
Video.
https://ensina.rtp.pt/artigo/o-imperio-de-salazar/
On Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 12:53:28 PM GMT+1, Roland Francis
<[email protected]> wrote:
It would be useful to refresh our memories if you could give us an
idea of the harm done to Goans and their aspirations with the Acto
Colonial.
Thanks.
Roland
On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 10:08 PM John de Figueiredo
<[email protected]> wrote:
To Roland:
Forgot to tell you that the Declaration was not initiated by the
Government Council. Dr. Oliveira Salazar had asked all Government
Councils of the overseas territories for their opinions on the
Acto Colonial. The Declaration was a response to that request. It
is a legal document. It speaks highly for Menezes Bragança that
he was able to contain his indignation at the Acto Colonial and
draft a relatively mild criticism with a relatively modest
request for greater autonomy. Although the Declaration was a
voice in the desert, the fact that it exists in the annals of our
history is a big deal, and in my opinion, the greatest deal in
the history of Goa.
John M. de Figueiredo
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 7, 2024, at 1:51 PM, Roland Francis <
[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you for that interesting addendum. I now realize the
importance of that Declaration document.
Sometimes the demand for self-respect can be more powerful than
that of any Act that proscribes it.
Roland Francis
416-453-3371
On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 11:56 PM John de Figueiredo
<[email protected]> wrote:
Roland,
A small correction. The document mentioned in my article was
not a letter. It was a declaration signed by the four
democratically elected members of the Government Council. This
declaration was approved unanimously by the Government Council
in a session that took place on July 4, 1930, chaired by
Governor Joao Carlos Craveiro Lopes. The document did not just
reject the Acto Colonial. It asserted that we, Goans, do not
give up our fundamental human right of self-determination.
After he returned to Portugal, Governor Craveiro Lopes (father
of future President of the Portuguese Republic Francisco
Higinio Craveiro Lopes) publicly condemned the Acto Colonial,
risking being disciplined by the military and sent to jail. (To
my knowledge, this never happened.)
John M. de Figueiredo
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 6, 2024, at 9:33 AM, Roland Francis <
[email protected]> wrote:
Historically the letter of protest would have taken much
courage and caused repercussion to its signatories, but are
you sure it should have been a Day of Joy for Goans?
It made no dent in Salazar’s thinking (although that was
Salazar’s fault, not theirs) not was it responsible for the
ultimate repeal of that Act, so what is it that we should be
celebrating.
Roland Francis
416-453-3371
On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 8:03 AM JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO
<[email protected]> wrote:
Attached is an article that may be of interest.
John M. de Figueiredo
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Ligações:
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[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froilano_de_Mello
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goan_Catholic
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament
[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon
[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Colonial_Act#cite_note-Portuguese_Nationality_Law-1
[6] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Republic_%28Portugal%29
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