This kind of theory has been rubbished by 'intellectuals' from Goa. Hindus were the largest benefactors of Portuguese presence in Goa. First it was the request of Timoja 5 centuries ago and the early 20th century they were fed with different types of businesses mainly related to the mining sector which was founded in 1907. BC O desassossego goes (The Goan restlessness)
Teotonio R. de Souza Sandra Ataide Lobo defended yesterday her doctoral thesis in which she studied the Portuguese liberal politics in Goa till the Colonial Act (1930) and the participation of the Goan elites (both Christian and Hindu). The ambivalence of the Portuguese liberalism, including its republican phase, failed to do justice to the colonial demands, and sought to impose "portugalidade", earlier through official Catholic religion, and in the republican phase through imposition of the Portuguese language. The study took into account the impact of the English political model in neighbouring Indian territory, and how the Goan elites sought to move between the two.
