Hello, Hope you are well! Thank you for sharing this link, I have been looking up historical materials, so this will be useful. If there are any leads on materials related to land administration and comunidades also, I will be grateful.
Good wishes, Preeti On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 6:13 AM Frederick Noronha < fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cogwheels of two Empires: Goan administration within 19th century British > Indian Ocean Empire. > > Abstract > > Since 1961 the relatively tiny ex-Portuguese Goa has been transformed from > a rather forgotten and underdeveloped colonial enclave to a state within > the Indian Union with a strong tourism sector and one of the highest per > capita-income of any Indian state. The success of Goa today allows one to > forget that its colonial past resulted in thousands of Goans being forced > to migrate to ‘British India’, East Africa and the Persian Gulf. Historical > research has tended to focus on 16th and 17th century “Golden Goa” or its > liberation. At the same time 19th and 20th century histories of the Persian > Gulf and East Africa have been Eurocentric in focus or have stressed > indigenous narratives in the post-colonial period. Both of these directives > have excluded the migrant story, and it is this hidden history that is > investigated in this paper, with particular reference to the development of > an army of Goan administrators for the areas under the jurisdiction of the > Bombay Presidency of British India. The paper also sets out to identify the > relationship between Goans and their colonial rulers in East Africa and its > implications for cross-cultural relationships between Goans and other > Indians as well as Africans. > > > > https://www.academia.edu/3604017/Cogwheels_of_two_Empires_Goan_administration_within_19th_century_British_Indian_Ocean_Empire?email_work_card=title > -- > FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 >