Typo corrected: Danvers, not Denvers. JM de F Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 28, 2024, at 6:48 AM, John de Figueiredo <johnde...@sbcglobal.net> > wrote: > > This article appears to endorse the idea that the Órfãs del Rei were sent to > Goa to prevent Portuguese (European) men from marrying native Goan women and > thereby perpetuate “Portuguese colonialism”. The English historian Frederick > Denvers proposed this interpretation in 1894. But is this true? Most Órfãs > went to Brazil, not to Goa. It is known that on one occasion on their way to > Goa their Portugueses ship was attached by the Dutch who kidnapped some of > them, forced them to convert to their (Protestant) faith, and married them. > Some of the Órfãs married local (Non-European) rulers after those rulers > converted to Catholicism. The Portuguese intermingled with the Goans and were > very open to marrying them. A far more likely reason is that the Goan parents > did not want their daughters to marry Europeans. In the 16th and 17th > centuries it was taboo among both Goan Christians and Goan Hindus to marry > outside religion, race, and caste. > John M. de Figueiredo > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 27, 2024, at 3:29 PM, Neil van der Linden <n...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> >> Four hundred years ago, orphan girls were used to facilitate the >> colonisation of Goa and to populate it with Portuguese people – i.e., white >> European settlers. Orphan girls whose parents died fighting in the war, >> considered ‘orphans Õrfāse king,’ were sent to Goa and married off to >> Portuguese men. It was promoted as a 'trade policy,' called Õrfās del Rei, >> meaning 'Orphans of the King.' >> >> Today's story brings a fascinating tale of how the Portuguese crown used >> Õrfās del Rei as a strategy to colonise Goa. >> https://madrascourier.com/insight/how-the-portuguese-crown-introduced-orfas-del-rei-as-a-colonisation-strategy-in-goa/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Goa-Research-Net" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to goa-research-net+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/E22C05C5-9C6C-49F7-AE26-A714B7C93FE2%40xs4all.nl.
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