The act of dislodging the Portuguese language was cultural genocide conducted by the current colonialists. What happened was that the bharats could not rule without a language. Goa ka lok Hindi nahin hai, therefore the closest language was to introduce english formally into Goa. Therefore we had the newspaper Navhind Times. The thing is that the bokdes in Goa took this change lying down. With a shake of the head they said "Ok now we have to speak the ingles. BC
BOOK EXTRACT D.A. Smith In 1964, after more than 30 years of writing short stories in Marathi, Laxmanrao Sardessai did something that, on the face of it, was quite unexpected. The 60-year-old Goan writer and teacher, imprisoned twice by the Portuguese colonial authorities for his efforts to end colonial rule -- achieved in December 1961 when the Indian army swept into Goa and evicted its long-standing Lusitanian rulers -- started publishing poems in Portuguese. Sardessai's familiarity with the Portuguese language is not the unusual part of this story. As the official language of the Estado da ?ndia, Portuguese was used by administrators and Goa's Catholic elite, and was studied by upper-caste Hindus, such as the family into which Sardessai was born. After 1961, however, Portuguese lost its official status and its social cachet: of the two Portuguese-language newspapers in which Sardessai's poetry appeared, A Vida and O Heraldo, only one would still exist twenty-two years later, when it would be known as the Herald and would publish entirely in English.
