Yeah, our grandparents were probably mercenaries. And, unlike you, I believe
that the colonial experience in Goa had many shades of grey. Not just black and
white... (though there were black and white too).FN
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From: Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2006/02/21 Tue AM 09:17:10 GMT+05:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Sunday papers... some Goa links
>
> That, to me, seems a bit too simplistic. In
> post-colonial times, it's
> fashionable to claim that the Portuguese converted
> "forcibly". It would
> seem more believable that many simply saw
> opportunity in this
> switch-over. Likewise, one thought that migration
> further south down the
> coast (to Karnataka and Kerala) started in
> pre-Portuguese times. It
> might be fashionable now-a-days to blame this on
> colonialism alone.
>
Being a very nice lad innit?
BC
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