Doc J Colaco wrote : This nonsense aka the Caste System is an Apartheid discriminatory relic from the pre-conversion days. ------------------------------------------------------------ Why all the angst Doc? Sadly, if only it were true that it is a relic of pre-conversion days. It's a reality even in today's Goa but my interest in it is not to perpetuate it but as a means to identifying and/or tracing people, migrations, occupations and the inherent turmoil that it caused within our society. We cannot write about Goan society and ignore the elephant in the room. Importantly caste is a marker of migratory patterns in Goa and a marker of clans. So it is an important geneology tool. warm regards, selma
