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I think Bernado is getting chronologically disoriented. If there were Christians in Goa before the advent of the Portuguese, they were definitely not 'Catholics'. There was no possibility of a catholic girl marrying an Indian[ an improvement from the term 'bharati' that Bernado normally uses] in the *pre-portuguese'*era. Sati was one of the first customs to be abolished by the Portuguese in the 16th century itself. They were not 100% bad. They were not saints,either. ................................................. Bernado Colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Well one can read from the horses mouth that the honky > dory era had issues like chal,chal mere sathi atham > ioh ani mar udki. I wonder if Goa catholic girls > married to indians have to conducted themselves the > same way mentioned below?> > B. Colalo > The pre-Portuguese Culture, high though it was, was not without its defects. The widows were compelled to burn at the stake of their dead husbands, and escaping were subjected to unheard> indignities - shaving of the head and wearing of mean > clothes. It denied them marriage, which drove a number into prostitution, as the same word standing for widow and prostitute in most Indian languages would show. It is no wonder that A.P Sharma writing on > the position of women in a recent issue of the Times of India July 24, 1988) should have been forced to > observe: looking back the modern Hindu feels intrigued and hurt, even baffled and shocked when he tries to > make out why his great ancestors decided to use the accidents of sex and birth as the sole determinants of > one's rank and function in the social system. To put it bluntly, one could say with sufficient justification and continuance of the Aryan patriarchate have been guilty of sexism and racism". > > Miguel ........................................................ It is a pity that the word "Rundd" is universally used in almost all Indian languages north of the Deccan to mean both a widow and a prostitute. We cannot change our pre-colonial or colonial past. We can change our Present.We must. Viva Goa. Miguel
