*** MEDIA: Goa... the size of an Indian district... but with a torrent of 300 journals in 140 years
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. --- Journalism in Portuguese India 1821-1961 By Henry Scholberg, Former Director, Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minneasota Journals are like pastries: we must eat them as soon as they come out of the oven. -- A nineteenth century Goan saying. INTRODUCTION: Goa is an area of the approximate size of an Indian district, and out of Goa came a torrent of well over 300 journals in the course of 140 years. In this paper, the terms 'Goa' and 'Portuguese India' will often be used interchangeably. The purview of this paper is * Geographically, the territory known in history as Portuguese India, and * Chronologically, from 1821 when Goa's first journal was published, until 1961 when Goa ceased to be Portuguese India. However, journalist publishing by and for Goans was not confined to the area known as Portuguese India, but should include Bombay, which over the years has caught the brunt of the Goan diaspora. And the world did not end in 1961. Journalism today is as alive, well and thriving as it was in the area when it was Portuguese India. Goa has bragging rights for bringing the first printing press to India in 1557, but Hickey's Gazette in Calcutta in 1780 was India's first periodical. Goa did not bring one out until 1821. Joao Nicolau de Fonseca in his history of Goa explains the reason for this delay: From a document bearing the date 1754, it appears that the Home Government was averse to the establishment of printing-presses in the territory of Goa, either by the local Government or by private individuals, and that accordingly, instructions were issued to the then viceroy, the Count of Alva, recommending the adoption of stringent measures in the matter. For nearly a century, this narrow-minded policy was rigidly followed, regardless of the inhabitants of the settlement, and it was only in 1821, the same year in which the constitutional system of Government was introduced, that a government press was established for the first time.[1] Since then, Portuguese India produced approximately 340 serial titles. This includes newspapers, magazines, government publications, and annual reports of companies and social organisations. Many of these periodicals are dying a slow death in the Central Library of Panjim, due to the humid climate of monsoonal India. Many are utterly lost and their existence is known only because their titles appear on someone's list. A number of these periodicals were exceedingly short-lived. At least two of them produced only one known issue. Many of them lasted a year or less. In his 'Subsidios para a Historia do Jornalismo na Provincias Ultramarinas Portuguesas', Brito Aranha, writing in 1885 reported that: The development of the press in the Portuguese colonies began around the year 1829 There was an epoch of resistance in the Homeric period of their definitive establishment of constitutional government in 1834. After that it continued with some intermittence in making itself remarkable available all in Portuguese India, in Macau and in Angola, the vast regions where the power and prestige of the Portuguese had to maintain themselves in their energy and their luster. In the space of fifteen years, we have counted 150 journals of which 70 pertain to Portuguese India, 15 to British India (Bombay), 40 to the four provinces of Portuguese Africa (19 in Angola) and 24 in Macau and in the British Asiatic possessions where there are Portuguese families.[2] The fact of the longevity, or lack thereof, of these journals begs the question: Porque? A number of reasons might be given: bad journalistic management, censorship, lack of advertising support, or, simply, the lack of readership. But the real cause for the downfall of numerous journalistic attempts during the nineteenth century may have been the poor economy of Portuguese India. "On the economic front," writes Sarto Esteves in his 'Goa and Its Future', "the Portuguese rule in Goa is a record of complete disinterestedness if not dismal failure. There is no serious attempt to industralize the place or even to encourage and help people to exploit its natural resources. Iron and managanese ores which were discovered as early as 1905 would have been sufficient to radically transform the economic face of Goa." [3] A significant indicator of
*** Goanet News Bytes * May 13, 2006 * Navy "agrees to provide land" for Dabolim airport expansion
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