A very good question by "Roland Francis Jan22,21 and there could be many answers. The Goan Catholic emigration was the result of western education that was available to him.The incentive for mass migration came from the departing British troops who were stationed in Goa during the Napoleonic wars. (1790 - 1810 ) Goans started migrating to Belgaum, Poona ,Bombay , Karachi etc. mostly to be of help to European families as they had healthy respect for non vegetarian food. There is probably a far greater reason to abandon the homeland and settle down in various parts of the world. I have lived in Belgaum, Pune, Bombay, Tanzania and Kenya besides Goa. and whenever I came across a fellow Goan abroad my perennial question was ''from which village do you come from? "" Many of them simply did now know the village they came from or some feigned not to know it. But once I was told that his parents had advised him to forget the name of the village for reasons best known to themselves. This could be one of the subtle answers why some do not want to talk about the ancestral village.and content to live abroad.
