Have just burned my eyes blind trying to see ordination papers of 18th century
Goan priests. Looks like what they were really looking for were men of "clean
blood" or "pure blood" without mixing of Jewish, Muslim, Mulatto and caste.
Anything else they could deal with :-)
Take care,Selma
On Thursday 30 January 2025 at 17:23:53 GMT, John de Figueiredo
<[email protected]> wrote:
Why was Portuguese dropped as language of instruction? It could not be because
it was a “colonial language” because English is definitely a colonial language.
Historically, English was never a language spoken by Goans in Goa.John
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On Jan 29, 2025, at 1:56 PM, Eric Pinto <[email protected]> wrote:
Admission to Rachol was restricted to Charda and the Brahmin groups. They were
conversant withthe Portuguese language and belonged to the civil services. The
new era dates to the early 70's when the language of instruction also changed
to English and Konkanni.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM 'Carvalho' via Goa-Research-Net
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear members,
I need your opinion on this. Researching one family of nineteenth century
Velsao, Goa, I discovered through archival documents in Lisbon, that one
brother from Velsao travelled to Zanzibar and was likely a table waiter and
cook, and most likely illiterate, but later hugely successful. Although there
was some reason to treat this information taken from a 1890 source with some
scepticism, it did have details for the employer etc. and in the main not
really discreditable.
I have now discovered through the assistance of the brilliant geneologist
Richard Souza, that another brother born in 1829 was ordained as a priest.
Was not the priesthood in Goa driven by caste and largely restricted to
upper-castes?
How do I square this information?
Your help would be most appreciated.Selma
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