Dear Godfrey, This is an interesting History that seems to be a revised version of Fr. Pratap Naiks work which appeared earlier. But it is not an improvement. And it cannot be helped; if a research guide like Fr. Pratap can falsify historical facts, how can we expect anything better from his disciple and that too a novice amateur?
Still may one inquire about the basis for the statement: The Portuguese lent credence to merit by worth not like this section of Hindu Brahmins who believe merit by ones birth not worth. Everyone knows that during the Portuguese rule the only considerations were Caste and Religion in that order. Try and prove me wrong by citing just one case of a lower caste person who occupied any government position during the four and a half centuries of that rule. Leave aside the government, the Roman Catholic Church was even worse. Would it have been possible for Cardinal Gracias to have been even consecrated as an Auxiliary Bishop had he been in Goa? Was merit by worth the exclusive right of a particular caste? Who is this Sebastião ANDRE Dalgado (see at 25-03-04) after whom the DKA is named? Did he publish a single book in Roman script Konkani so that his name could adorn an academy seeking justice for Roman script Konkani? The only Dalgado connected with Konkani that I know about was christened Sebastião RODOLPHO Dalgado whom you have mentioned in your para#5. But all his books are in Portuguese. He translated Sanskrit classics and also made linguistic studies on Indo-Portuguese and Luso-Asiatic dialects. He also compiled two bilingual dictionaries and an anthology of Konkani proverbs. These books were also in Portuguese. He too did not write a singled book of Konkani prose or poetry. But he did very clearly and unambiguously declare that Devanagari, and not Roman, is the correct script for Konkani. Therefore, his name would have been the last that could have been selected for an outfit that is clamouring from the house tops that Roman script is the best suited for Konkani. Perhaps this Sebastião ANDRE Dalgado fits the bill. But what was he? What did he do to merit this honour? I hope to have clear answers to these questions. Another of my questions the meaning of (Naik not Nayak) is still begging for an answer. I shall be grateful if any reader, who understands this, could satisfy my curiosity. S. M. Borges --- godfrey gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WARNING ------CATHOLICS IN GOA WILL SOON END UP AS > STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND--- WHILE ---UNITY AMONG > HINDUS & CATHOLICS AND PROMOTION OF BOTH DEVANAGARI > AND ROMAN SCRIPT IS OUR CHERISHED ENDEAVOUR:
