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Hi Bosco and Fred
As you know, I was only briefly referring to Bernardo's view that the Hindu
Goans were contented to be shopkeepers ("posorkar") in contrast to the
enterprising Catholic Goans! I definitely doubted Bernardo's suggestion
because of Hindu businessmen all over the world who couldn't be any
different from the Hindus in Goa.
However, I am still keen to find a persuasive explanation why Catholic Goans
left Goa in huge numbers but not the Hindu Goans. I strongly suspect it was
to do with the culture of Catholicism but why did that culture, not rub-off,
at least a little, to generate a Hindu Goan outflow to what we tend to take
as the Goan Diaspora? There must be a deeper explanation but I am foxed by
it.
Regards
Cornel
On Mon Sep 17 05:48:12 PDT 2007, Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote:
> Cornel, The "Hindu shopkeeper" is a Catholic-generated
> stereotype (half-true, wholly false, as the Xavier Institute
> of Communications at Mumbai would say) generated in the
> so-called Old Conquests. Of course, all Hindus weren't and
> couldn't have been shopkeepers!
RESPONSE:Shopkeeper?? Geez!! There was a fairly considerable contingent of
Goan Hindus in Mumbai since the 19th century (as per my reading, so could be
earlier). The early settlers lived in the Girgaum area of Mumbai.
