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I had wrote to Cornel,
Its Goa Diaspora...
You believe please correct me if I am wrong, that
Catholic percentage of Goans left Goa after liberation
is very high (may be to the extent of 90% as pointed
by FN).
Case may be true for the year 1961/62 but not after
that.
Even before liberation, when New Cabizad came under
control of Protuguse many hindu families, atleast 60
families from sattari (many of them left there
belongings)who are my relatives left Goa. This was may
be around 1850. My grandfather come to Panaji in 1925.
Dear Miguel,
I would also like to know about people living Goa Post
liberation..Pre liberations.....would cooperate with
you to know the truth...fulfill my desire...to correct
my worng notions...
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Bhandare may be right about the reason for
out-migrations from Goa in
the immediate aftermath of December, 1961. He may
equally be wrong. In
any case he was not around then as he was, admitedly,
born in 1978!
Having said that, it would be nice to have the
statistics of
persons/families that left Goa in 1962 and 1963,
calendar year-wise
and categorise it among the then traditionally
accepted groupings of
"Cristao, Konknno, Bamonn, Bhot ani Moir" . That was
the era of the
Military rule under the then Col. K.P.Kandeth. [later
Lt. General]
The statistics of in-migration [again group wise]
during the early
days of elected Government [1964 and 1965] would also
be revealing,
although the aim may not have been so much for
changing the religious
balance as to ensure the merger in to Maharashtra. The
demographic
change is more of the 1970s and 1980s when Goa began
booming as a
tourist destination and attracted the smarter,
non-labour class
persons from the rest of India.
Whatever the other findings, I do not believe Bhandare
can be faulted
when he writes, "the perks and priveleges of being the
same religion
as the colonial masters(most of the perks and
priveleges were
imagined) would dissapear..." The Goan people's
perception [of
themselves] and their reality was as disjointed and
erroneous as
Bollywood's projection of Goa today. It is almost like
the Lonely
Planet's projection of a Lamani woman and a lungi-clad
man beside a
caparisoned "Nandi" bull as representative images of
Goa.
Assim sao coisas do Mundo; quem nao sabe nadar ..... o
fundo!
Mog asundi.
Miguel
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