Santosh, Apologies for the delay in replying to your submission.
Impartial or not I cannot comment, as I have not read the treatise. I was commenting after my experiences in reading other documents on Goa written by Indian authors years after the Portuguese had gone. There is always the situation of over-looking the good and stressing on the bad. Please also note that judges and prosecutors in Goa pre-1961 were mostly Goans. (This is in addition to the large number of Goan judges and prosecutors in Portugal, Angola, Mocambique, Timor and Macao.) As also were the police and government employees, according to BK Boman-Behram and others. I have no more to comment in this issue. Should I come across anything in my occasional research regarding this topic, I will make a new submission. Cheers, Gabriel. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Santosh Helekar <[email protected]> > To: estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, 19 February, 2011 2:47:55 AM > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?That > > The book I mentioned is a very impartial document on Indian and Portuguese > laws >in Goa. It describes these laws and the criminal justice procedures in a >dispassionate manner in consultation with legal documents, and legal >authorities >and police officers who were familiar with the procedures at the times in >question. I see no evidence that Gabriel and others who have commented on this >thread have better first- or second-hand knowledge of the Indian and >Portuguese >legal systems than that contained in the said book. I also do not see any >evidence of impartiality on their part. > > I for one want to look at our past and present in as realistic a manner as > the >documented facts dictate it, and to the future with moderate optimism. > > Cheers, > > Santosh
