Hi Selma, To say that Timoja (Timayya) and the Goans (at the time all Hindus) who welcomed Albuquerque and took him in triumph were “traitors,” immediately raises the question: “Traitors to whom?” India was not a nation then. They probably felt that Goa was much better off under Vijayanagara than under Bijapur. They had Goa’s best interest in mind. This being said, the Portuguese misunderstood the rivalry between Vijayanagara and Bijapur as based on religion. It was not. After all, Yusuf Adil Khan himself was married to a Hindu, his only wife. It was based on political and economic dominance. John M. de Figueiredo Sent from my iPhone On Jul 27, 2026, at 12:47 PM, 'Carvalho' via Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear members,
I ordered this book from the link given in the review and within 8 days it had arrived in London. There is no reason at all for readers worldwide not to enjoy books published in Goa.
TikTok reels may lie but the archives don’t. The truth has been right under our noses residing at the Historical Archives of Goa department, Panjim, which Pais investigates with great scholarly rigour. Right from the onset the Hindu brahmin hand is evident. As Afonso de Albuquerque, after laying siege to Calicut, nears Honavar, the Admiral of the Honavar fleet Timoja lies in wait—not to confront the aggressor but to present him with tribute. In the bounty he will lay at Albuquerque’s feet are “sheep, cows, chicken and refreshments”. Then Timoja soothingly assures Albuquerque that “he would lead him to a city that could easily be taken with the strength of his fleet.” These are not Pais’ words, they form part of a speech by Marquis of Vallad in 1873 exulting Timoja nearly two centuries later. Timoja had knowledge of Portuguese. He described himself as a brahmin and a “vassal of the King of Portugal”. The complicity is not restricted to Timoja, there were others involved, their names live on, perhaps not commonly known to us Goans because we like to bury inconvenient truths, but their names are evidenced in the archives as Malurau, Menaique, Mang, Dolvi, Raulu Camotim from Divar—all richly rewarded by the Portuguese with distinguished positions. The letters of Albuquerque reveal at least sixteen other upper-caste Hindu names who rendered invaluable service in the opening decades of Portugal’s imperial ambitions in Goa. Thereby began a dance between the Hindu elite and the Portuguese which endured through the centuries.
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