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Sr. Miguel,
I should have said the current fashion or trend in
Goa. i.e.; Goan girls marrying indians. I have read
that the sati system is still practised in some
villages in the indian sub continent, simalarly like
other traditions such as marrying to dogs and frogs.
B. Colaço
> 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.
>
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