It’s like asking BRITAIN 🇬🇧 to return the KOHINOOR diamond 💎 ? But uncertainty exists just who gets it back Since Punjab was partitioned in 1947 ?
> On 16 Jun 2023, at 02:20, Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well-articulated about the negatives of Colonialism. Our book looks at the > negatives and positives of colonialism. > Of the about dozen aspects described in our book, the following may be an > overlooked system. > > Creating and Maintaining an Expanded Caretaker System > The village communities were cared for by a system of Proximal and External > caretakers. The Proximal caretakers were parents and members of the extended > family, integral in Indian society. External caretakers were various Welfare > Agencies either private, religious or government operated, including the Azil > for the elderly and the terminally ill. Often the religious institutions, > priests and nuns straddled the internal and external caretaker role by being > an informal bridge to the various entities (including recalcitrant relative), > directly > providing some assistance; and setting a moral code of conduct and themselves > endowed by society with some moral authority. > > Historically prior to and during colonization, Goan villages can best be > described as a Static, Poverty-stricken, highly Stratified, Endogamous and > Rural Society. Associated features of the people are constancy in the face of > social and economic instability, an agrarian status and a somewhat feudal > structure where all live in a chronic state of poverty and deprivation as a > mix of nuclear and extended families. Children were expected to work at less > than skilled jobs as soon as they were old enough. This is not peculiar to > Goa but is seen in most villages in Asia and Europe. They are often the > victim of Amoral Familism a construct described by Edward Banfield in ‘The > Moral Basis of a Backward Society.’ This explains the inability of villagers > to act together for the long-term common good over the short-term advantage > of the individual family. > > The greater challenge today is how such issues surface and handled in a > modern village or in the diaspora where in the past the once sheltered > society (assisted by State and Church) is no longer protected, and > individuals are no longer restricted and constrained by traditional norms, > practices and expectations. In summary, traditional societies had been > protected by proximal and external caretakers as described, which today in > urban cites and in foreign countries is replaced by a multilayered > bureaucratic “Welfare Agency,” yet the (Goan) villages and individual cases > may be overlooked. > > Gilbert Lawrence, > Co Author: Insights into Colonial Goa > Published by Amazon and Kindle > > ----------------------------------- > > From: Nandini Sardesai > > very well-articulated! > > ________________________________ > > So, what did the Portuguese loot? by Frederick Noronha > > So, someone asked this question in cyberspace: "I genuinely wanted to learn > more about this. I have watched a few videos on YouTube, but they are mostly > from people with agendas and don't make sense to me as they do not validate > their claims with facts. What did the Portuguese loot? How did they do it?" > > These days, we are getting increasingly caught up in fighting battles over > the past. Our economy, the difficulty for our youth to find jobs, and the > crony capitalism is only getting worse. Together with this, the tendency to > blame the past for all our present-day ills is also getting more acute. >
