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. The
> Brahmins, by virtue of their access to learning and
> consequent access to the
> durbar of every king of whichever dynasty happened
> to rule Goa, made sure that
> the reins of the administration (and the lands
> revenues!) remained firmly in
> their hands. Even the racial-supremacist Portuguese
> Regime was served by an
> army of Brahmin "empregados". In fact it was a local
> Brahmin called Thimayya,
> (lusitanized to "Timoja"), who, having fallen in
> disfavour in the court of
> Adil Shah, invited and guided Afonso de Albuquerque
> to come and conquer Goa.
>
I wonder from where you got the racial-supremacist
term - bombastic innit mate? Today Goans from all
strata are Portuguese citizens innit? It was not only
Timoja but loads of hindus who invited Albuquerque to
do the necessary against the Muslim lords. I hope you
are not doing a 'La Parracara'.
B. Colaço
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