When mechanised trawlers began displacing traditional fishing practices along Goa's coastline in the late 1970s, the state's traditional fishing communities—the Ramponkars—found themselves fighting not only for their livelihoods but also for their way of life. This talk explores the history of the Ramponkar Movement and the work of the Goenchea Ramponkarancho Ekvott, which mobilised fishing communities through protests, petitions, telegrams, press statements and sustained advocacy to defend Goa's coastal heritage. Drawing on the Ramponkar archival collection housed at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research (XCHR), which the presenter helped to organise via an internship, the presentation examines crucial texts and fragments of pages. This includes letters, memoranda, newspaper clippings, petitions and organisational records assembled over decades by the late Fr. Braz Faleiro SJ. These remarkable documents preserve the voices of ordinary people who organised to protect Goa's coastline from the impact of mechanised trawling and other vested interests, demonstrating how struggles for environmental justice are also fought through documentation and public memory. The presentation is by Siya Sukhtankar, a first-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) student at the Indian Institute of Management Shillong, who undertook a social internship at XCHR working on the Ramponkar archives. The session was moderated by independent researcher Tyrone Fernandes, whose work focuses on Goan cinema history and subaltern studies. Fr. Braz Faleiro SJ (1936–2023), a Jesuit priest and social activist, played a pivotal role in supporting Goa's traditional fishing communities and meticulously preserving the documentary record of their movement. Today, the Ramponkar Archives at XCHR stand as an important collection documenting a landmark environmental and social justice movement in Goa. For more such talks, please like, subscribe and share the video to help preserve and promote awareness about Goa's rich social, environmental and archival history too. Visit the XCHR library. Audio recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN). WhatsApp : +91-9822122436.
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