Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The English newspaper readers in Goa and elsewhere > > in the world may never > > know that the Nagueshi-Bandora based last > > 'Raja' of Sonda passed away > > on 19 March, 2006 and was cremated today at > > Nagzar-Curti, Ponda. > > Was this personage also know as "Rei de Sundem"? I > vaguely remember from my childhood days a modest white > car (probably a Standard-Herald) with red number > plates bearing RdeS in gold letters wending its way up > Altinho on a number of occasions. When enquired with > my Dad, he told me the letters stood for "Rei de > Sundem". >
Yes, Gabriel, it is the same extremely polite and distinguished personality, always known to us as "Rei de Sundém". The kings of Portugal always treated their Sundem counterparts as "Primos" (Cousins). The coat-of-arms of the Sondekars has, at the bottom, a caption in the Portuguese language, "Real Casa de Sundém" (Royal House of Sundem). Some years ago, during an excursion which included Bandora, I was fortunate to be able to take a photograph of that coat-of-arms. Jorge
