--- Vidyadhar Gadgil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1853993%2c0011000400070005.htm > > Furious and funny in Goa > > Hindustan Times || Karishma Attari > New Delhi, November 28, 2006 > > An excerpt from the article: > > "As a classic exercise in hegemony, the colonisers > inter-married with the natives of Goa, building a > social structure that could not be toppled like the > statutes of Albuquerque and Vasco da Gama. > > William Dalrymple highlights this in his piece > through the words of Donna Georgina, an Indo- > Portuguese woman, who speaks scornfully of the > union with India, exclaiming that the “Indian > invasion” brought an end to a happy way of life. > Just as intense is the quite opposite line taken by > essayist Prabhakar S. Angle, who writes about his > disgust for the colonial heritage." > Mario observes: > I didn't think there were very many "Indo-Portuguese" in Goa, either before or after 1961. What say all our experts on Goa? >
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