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Reference Frederick Noronha's above post, though I have not read the
book/pamphlet he refers to, from my experience of those days, (40 & 50s) I
would estimate that the first statement about the number of Portuguese in Goan
must be true.
I had almost 35 years close interaction with GOA, being born and raised there
for about 15 years and close touch with it thereafter. In all that period, I
had the opportunity to see 03 outsiders i.e. "bhaille" viz Portuguese: Fr.
Marinho Novais who was my Portuguese professor at Rachol Seminary, D.Jose ds
Costa Nunes, Patriarch of GOA (whom incidentally I saw in Belgaum when he came
there on a pastoral visit since GOA CHURCH there belonged to the Padroado) and
a Dr. Batista Sousa, attached to the Central Hospital in Pangim whom my uncle
priest had gone to consult (Dr. Batista incidentally had been "exiled" to Goa
by the Salazar regime for his communist ideology). The top administrative
positions were occupied by outsiders such as Governor, Secretary General, Head
of Finance, Head of Police, etc as happens to-day (the difference being that,
then the Head of the Medical College was always a GOAN).That is why I was
surprised some years back when Domnic Fernandes in his
article on MAPUCA had mentioned there were barracks and troops behind the
Tribunal, non-existent in my school days. To-day, you throw a stone in GOA and
hit 500 outsiders!! Sign of PROGRESS, of course.
Marcos Gomes-Catão
