Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:06:28 +0530
From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com
Mario, However hard you try to confuse the issue, 250,000 is larger
than 220,000. Wouldn't it be easier to simply acknowledge that your
facts or understanding was wrong? --FN
Mario responds:
Fred, as the
Dear I Nunes,
2009/10/25 lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com:
Size is important for fair representation in a democracy.
This presumes that the democracy is going to treat people on the
basis of their religious affiliation, and that religious polarisations
are a given.
I doubt they are even helpful for
I. Nunes responds:
A lack of democracy ( which is also a threat to ethic identity), lack of
economic development, globalization, existence of ethnic fragmentation (and
heterogenity by population size. Add refugees too) and warring neighbours, are
all positively associated with the
To understand better the ratio of Christian vs Hindu population of Goa, one
has to take
certain facts into consideration as follows:
1510 - 1780During this period Goa comprised of only 3 talukas i.e.
Ilhas, Salcete and
Bardez and one can safely assume that 90 to 95% population of this region
Size is important for fair representation in a democracy.
Or would you rather have the community, religious, ethic or other, seek and be
classified under schedule and protected status, and then ignored and
forgotten?
Or seek correction through civil war?
Witness Sri Lanka, N. Ireland,
Mario wrote:
Why don't you check out my assertion that Christians in Goa never
exceeded 50% of the population, and let us know?
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:38:49 +0530
From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com
Okay, here goes... but knowing Mario, he would probably rake up some
other
Mario, However hard you try to confuse the issue, 250,000 is larger
than 220,000. Wouldn't it be easier to simply acknowledge that your
facts or understanding was wrong? --FN
PS: The Catholic proportion was higher before decades of out-migration
brought about changes. Then, there was post-1961
Okay, here goes... but knowing Mario, he would probably rake up some
other debate when faced with the figures!
António de Noronha, who incidentally was a Free Mason, writing in Os
Indús de Goa e a República Portuguesa (1922) says:
Of its 500 thousand inhabitants (according to the
