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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:55:31 +0100
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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
Sorry Jaya to disabuse you:
Lord Sinha's mother & generations of Sinha daughters-in-law have also,
indubitably, shared that dubious honour.
And there have been quite a few other Indian/Hindu & Muslim(?) lordlings
created by a pandering Brittish crown for sycophantic servioces.
Alfred de Tavares
