The use of the word and concept caste began in Goa with Portuguese soldado. The Goa of the sixteenth century had soldado, when they took local women, including Muslim women made widows, the soldado became casado. Casa, home or household, was the manner in which a soldado was married and made casado. From here comes the word, cazar (or, kazar) to become a householder, so to marry, cazar. Those who were fidalgo, fils de alguns, were the castic(s)o, the pure ones, later applied to endogamous Indian occupational groups. See Duarte Barbosa. The local people in general became nativos. The mixed with the soldado, their children, became mestico. So, castico, mestico, and nativos. From castico came castus, casta, custom; chaste, caste. Today, all-India category of societal classification. Khuinchea kastacho-re, or -go tum is Konkani. W R Da Silva
On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 3:51 PM John de Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote: > > May I ask you to send me the sources where where you obtained the information > about the Ilha de Chorão? > John M. de Figueiredo > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 6, 2024, at 2:50 PM, 'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > John( ..........In fact, the Island of Chorão, where many of them lived, was > known as “Ilha dos Fidalgos” (Island of Nobility........). > > On the island of Chorão, the Portuguese colonizers had Goan and African > slaves. They were self-proclaimed aristocrats who left Portugal where poverty > was rampant. True aristocrats would never leave their land to go to Goa and > lose their lives and possessions knowing that the Mughals and Marathas would > attack whenever they could. > > > > Nuno(............The Portuguese difference was the willingness of mixing with > other ethnic groups, from the casual sexual intercourse to marriage and to > the ability to "go native"...........) > > > > The English did not mix in India because they were from the upper middle and > upper class. Most of the Portuguese were from the lower class and illiterate. > They raped many women and abandoned them and their mixed race children. > > Here is a report that clearly explains what happened in a certain colony, > where even many Goans were settled: > > https://acervo.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/quantos-milhoes-morreram-na-saga-do-colonialismo-1724884 > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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/1173903945.13467151.1728137663385%40mail.yahoo.com. > > -- > 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/9E0FCCAD-24FD-45A6-ADE6-931427478E96%40sbcglobal.net. -- 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/CA%2BvNr4J0r_4wGyo-ijfDVO9ZqJa9hm8ky%3DP6C8ZTPMs_ucrnqQ%40mail.gmail.com.
