1961: The Portuguese constitution of 1933 and the Indian constitution of 1950

'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:47:18 -0800

 
 
Nuno, did you sayAntónio Costa?  Costa never belonged tothe group of 
submissives who left Goa. He was born in Portugal.
 Well, António Costa apologizes for the Wiriamumassacre: “Inexcusable act that 
dishonors our History”

“I cannotfail to evoke and bow before the memory of the victims of the Wiriamu
massacre,an inexcusable act that dishonors our History”, stated the Prime
Minister ofPortugal, before the President of the Republic of Mozambique, in
Maputo.
António Costa pede desculpa por massacre de Wiriamu: “Acto indesculpável que
desonra a nossa História”

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António Costa pede desculpa por massacre de Wiriamu: “Acto indesculpável...

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On Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 12:00:06 PM GMT, 'Nuno Cardoso da Silva'
via Goa-Research-Net <goa-research-net@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Pedro, I respect your opinions, even if they may sound a bit extreme. But let
me remind you that the "submissive insignificant minority" has given Portugal
some of its most notable people, including the still Prime-Minister of
Portugal. Maybe Goa lost something when that "insignificant minority" left Goa
to join the country they had come to accept as theirs. I wish that prior to
1961 we had been able to find an alternative acceptable to the vast majority of
Goans, but clearly we weren't enlightened enough to find it... All the best to
you, to Goa and all Goans Nuno Sent: Monday, December 18, 2023 at 9:43 AM
From: "'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net"
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Subject: [GRN] Goa, 19/12/1961: The Portuguese constitution of 1933 and the
Indian constitution of 1950
The foreign constitution of 1933 imposed by Salazar on the Goans, threw them
into the abyss of an iron dictatorship that did not allow any political,
economic, cultural advancement, etc. These Goans were part of the Indian people
who had not yet been liberated. They went through prisons, extreme poverty,
racism, tribulation for the Hindu majority.

Salazar considered himself a messianic leader, therefore, with his doctrine of
propagating “Western civilization” he intended to “domesticate the wild
indigenous people”.

Shortly after World War II, all colonized peoples have vowed to destroy
colonizing forces wherever it exists.

In India, already free from the British colonial yoke, the democratic
constitution of 1950 gave full freedom to its citizens. The Goans, for example,
living in Mumbay (Bombay), knew what a democracy was.

On December 19, 1961, the mighty Indian army serving the largest democracy in
the world came with the 1950 constitution, making the 1933 constitution
obsolete, which, curiously, even for Western Europe was completely
“prehistoric”.

Few Christian batkars (landlords) opposed liberation, and the Hindu majority
was clearly supportive of their integration into Mother India, and among the
Christian minority, hostility to the Portuguese colonizer and the desire for
association with India predominated, even though, for some, with a status of
autonomy that preserves Goan specificity. There were, in addition to the
batkars, groups of “descendants” from Goa and the small mixed-race community of
Daman who opposed the liberation. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of
Goans would celebrate the advance of the Indian army as a liberation.

After the liberation, this submissive insignificant minority, settled mainly in
Portugal and the colony of Mozambique, came up with plan B, the utopian
independence that vanished after the military coup in Lisbon in 1974. Two
former members of the Casa de Goa from Lisbon told me that, as a last resort,
after its foundation in the early years, this Casa emerged as a kind of Trojan
horse to pinch the government of the state of Goa. This was also the perception
of some Goans who came from the colony of Mozambique. Therefore, they did not
join massively as members and, in parallel, founded ARCIP (Associação
Recreativa Cultural Indo-Portuguesa). After 1961, the Indian state of Goa
elected native Konkani-speaking leaders and no longer had foreign
governors-general and foreign bishops who only spoke Portuguese, a language
unknown to the majority of the native population.
The Constitution of India is the fundamental and supreme law of India. The
document establishes the framework that demarcates the fundamental political
code, structure, procedures, powers and duties of government institutions and
establishes the fundamental rights, guiding principles and duties of citizens.
The Magna Carta. It is a permanent plebiscite, a participatory democracy. Does
democracy have flaws? Winston Churchill once said that “democracy is the worst
regime except for all the others.”
Since 1991, India has risen economically very robustly, becoming the 3rd
highest GDP in Asia. It benefited a large number of Goans. Which are the top 5
GDP countries in the world? The US, China, Japan, Germany, and India,
respectively, hold those positions in 2023. According to IMF data.

Goa is neither Gaza strip, nor Somalia, nor Sudan, nor East Timor. Timor-Leste
is the Least Developed Country and is heavily dependent on Indonesia according
to the World Bank. And what about Macau and H.Kong integrated into China?

On this day of liberation of Goa :“-Jai Hind”.

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