Alfred de Tavares wrote about his younger days.... In those days, for girls from Bardez, to be given in marriage in far off (outlandish) Salcete, was a phenomenon as rare as it was daring.
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Dear Mr. Tavares,
Even today it is very rare to find a marriage match being made between a Salcete boy and a Bardez girl - or vice versa. At least among the Catholics.
I think Tiswadi (Ilhas) people go both ways but the Bardezkars and Salcetkars generally stick to their own when looking for partners (just realised that last sentence is explosive in it's possible interpretations).
At the extreme end of course we have the Saligao folks who generally don't look beyond even their own village. And then we have the Moidekars... but let's not go there today. Some other day perhaps.
Cecil
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