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. While the Goan Catholic elites chose largely to view the Portuguese colonialism from the perspective of its "affective assimilation", the Hindu elites embraced more the Indian nationalism under the more pragmatic English rule. This thesis is remarkable for its pioneering attempt at covering the Goan periodic press, in Portuguese and to some exent in English, it fails to do justice to the vernacular press due tue author's linguistic limitations. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202135591815792&set=gm.624155784296499&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf