Roland Francis ( June 13 ) writes inter alia: "" under the Portuguese regime there was a section of Catholic Brahmin class in Goa , who treated themselves like local royalty"" ""They were primarily from Margao, were large landowners, ...usually had Aryan good looks, light hair, fair skin, light eyes...."""
Mr. Roland Francis' perception of this particular class in Margao is not different from the perception of my fellow student colleagues i.e. not so fair skinned Goan catholic brahmins who insisted that these fair skinned people living around Margao church were part of their own caste, hence the they too claimed to be of local royalty. My own perception of these fair skinned people was (and still is) that they were of mestisso community who did very well for themselves from economic point of view. If my memory serves me right these people always claimed themselves to be descendentes with pure Portuguese blood. and have never heard the word brahmin coming from their mouths.