----- Original Message ----- From: Frederick Noronha (FN) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: GOANET <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:45 PM Subject: [Goanet] Goanet News Bytes * Feb 2,2006 * Goa Knowledge Commission goesonline, seeks your views www.knowledgeforgoa.com
In North Goa..., some areas till date are known to be owned by the successors of the then Count of Pernem as well as the then Count of Mayem. Comment: There was never a Count of Pernem, but a Viscount. Presently the Viscount of Pernem is Jitendra Deshprabhu (during the Portuguese era of Goa, "Prabhu Deshprabhu" used to be "Porobo Desporobo"). In Heta Pandit, Annabel Mascarenhas and Ashok Koshy's book "Houses of Goa" (forwarded by Gerard da Cunha), printed in 1999, in the description of "The Deshprabhu House, Pernem" one can read on page 167: "Jaya Deshprabhu boasts of being the mother of the only Hindu Viscount in the world". Jorge
