Dear Rico I am glad you have sent a reminder. Goanet readers need to see and discuss what is there in the blog as related to Goa and leave the other issues to zionists and anti-semites. One relevant issue in that blog is about the «subaltern classes of the Portuguese colonial empire». These were the classes patronized by the empire but also marginalized in some way. They acted as connecting thread of the dispersed treks of the colonial empire, which Boxer once described as a «shoe-string empire»! Goan doctors, Azorean prelates, Cabo Verdian administrative bureaucrats were some such «subalter classes». Oxfored based Indian historians under the leadership of Ranajit Guha (now retired in Australia) developed the well-knwon «Subalter Studies» in 80s. Their reading departed from the original Gramscian concept of subaltern classes, and concentrated on the lower ranks of subalternity as a third force (popular masses) that were ignored by the imperial elites and also the nationalist native elites that gained from the transfer of power at the time of independence. The Subaltern Studies were provoked by the Naxalbari movement in 70s. The analysis of the subaltern elites in the Portuguese empire would be interesting, particularly to understand why there did not develop any serious independence movements within the colonies, or without helps from outside the colonies! My hunch is that the subaltern elites in the Portuguese colonies had not reached a level of subalternity that could lead those elites (as it happened in the rest of India or elsewhere in the other colonial empires) to seek independence. It is in this connection that I would appreciate any discussion in this forum. The rest of «reng-te-teng» of Goanet may continue to entertain the habitués. Most discussions on Goanet seem to contain nothing that comes even close to any original research, adding nothing to statement of one's pet opinions. There is nothing wrong in that too, except when it gets translated into nasty wars of words, short of «gai-fosteo»! Teotonio R. de Souza From: "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] apostarnahistoria.blogspot.com (2) To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Guys, let's discuss apostarnahistoria.blogspot.com ... preferably it's view of Goan history, it's biases and perspectives, and related issues. Why do you'll guys fly off to Israel, the West Bank and other parts of the globe at the slightest pretext? As you probably know, we humble South Asian residents and 'desi' citizens have a lot of difficulties in getting visas to visit different parts of the globe. (I almost got refused a visa to Bangladesh recently! But that might have had sometime to do with my disreputable profession.) So let's stay in *Goa* while on GOAnet. Stay ONtopic, unless you have a good pretext not to. Avoid abuses and name-calling, however you dislike another Goanetter's point of view. This is what Goanet rules requires us to do. --FN http://apostarnahistoria.blogspot.com/2006/06/investigao-uma-psico-histria-conectada.html
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