Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote: I see little difference between the politicians who say "this land is ours to grab" (even if via the very legal but very colonial Land Acquisition Act 1894) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Acquisition_Act
RESPONSE: I do not really know how this British Land Acquisition Act 1894 came into the discussion of the system of "communes" (Communidade) which predated this Act (presently legal in India), the British and even the Portuguese by several hundreds of years......but which was summarily disbanded in 1962 by the Army in Goa. (Ref Fish, Curry and Rice (2002) Claude Alvares Ed.) Instead, the master non-misrepresenter (MN-M) of facts (Daman bridge, Siddi etc), the scripter + distributer of that obfuscated Alcoholic Goans story in the Times of India, and the originator of that wildly bogus "Colonialism started in Goa only after 1961" nonsense (I hope he has references for that crapola) now, sends a link on Wikipedia which has the following notations on the site [1] This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. [2] This article does not cite any references or sources. Just to pseudo-plagarise from MN-M: I am sorry, but it is hard to bother to read unreferenced material published on this 'reliable' website for any reason. For, unlike the 1950s Bombay, this is 2010, and the age+ of the Internet and publicly accesible databases and video-phones. It is easy to capture and publish 'off the cuff' remarks (i.e. truly held beliefs) carelessly and insensitively made all the time by arrogant politicians. Thanks though for getting off the "Rape" thread .....(for now, at least). BTW: There are a lot of reliable links to Land Acquisition Act 1894 (as effective in India today) jc
