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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote: [1] We can split hairs till the cows come home. [2] The question is just whether the depiction of the Inquisition in Goa also suffers from a Black Legend [3] Does anyone have access to the so-far untranslated work of Antonio Baiao? jc's response: No cows coming here to our little home. The Black Legend always has a White Legend. They (the Catholics) are black (bad). We (the non-Catholics) are white (good). This explains (or should explain) why I personally find the use of Priolkar's work by the "pure and white" folks ....very suspect. This explains (or should explain) why I find Priolkar's work biased (perhaps unintentionally, perhaps not). For, IF any historian worth his salt was to write substantively about the affairs of the subcontinent, he would have written about the MAJOR causes of suffering on the sub-continent at the time i.e. The slavery of the Caste System, The degradation of females via the Devadasi system, The Sati burnings, Bonded families, etc. But ....he did not. Is it that he was incapable of writing about these topics? or Is it that these topics were not very important. Just imagine a medical writer ...writing a major treatise about Constipation .......in the midst of a Cholera epidemic. Would you wonder or not, if this writer had an agenda (link with the ex-lax people) or perhaps was not very well connected in the penthouse. This is not to say that his article on Constipation was not accurate. BTW, FN ....why are we so focussed on the "untranslated work of Antonio Baiao"? Was it perchance written in a language that Priolkar did not understand? jc
