No, not on your nelly dear Aunty...
The Mamai Kamat mansion antecedates the Palácio do
Hidalcao by a few decades.
It was using that established fact that their advocate,
Dr. Redualdo da Costa, won the Mamais their milestone
case, in Portugal.
The Mamais habeen decreed that a portion of their house
should be demolished to enable Óbras Públicas to widen
the narrow neck separating the two mansions.
Redualdo argued in court that as his clients' house already
stood before the other, it was Adil Shah's lack of farsight
that were the cause for our contemporary traffic-woes.
Hence, he prayed that if any demolition were necessary it
would have to be effected on the present seat of government.
He carried the day...
Alfred, imparting information culled from the involved horse's
mouth.
Stockholm, 2008-10-05
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008
> 02:15:13 +0000> Subject: [Goanet] Nostalgia #21> > > Nostalgia pic #21>
> ______________> > 1924 - 2004: then and now - Secretariat, Panjim - 80 years>
> apart. Apparently the oldest standing building in Panjim (Goa?),> the Idalcao
> or Adil Shah's palace built in 1500, served as a rest-> house for Portuguese
> Governors, then the Viceroy's residence after> the 1759 remodeling. The
> picture on the left was taken half a dozen> years after the 1918 cosmetic
> changes, when government departments> like the Captain of Ports and the
> Attorney General started using it.> > After Liberation it became known as the
> "Secretariat" and housed the> Legislative Assembly of the Goa government, on
> the banks of the Mandovi.> The Pic on the right shows the Secretariat more
> recently - the Legislative> Assembly has moved to the new complex at
> Porvorim. Back to Adil Shah!> > http://2008goanconvention.com/nostalgia.php>
> > Pictures - courtesy: Sanjeev Sardessai; Kenilworth Hotels.> > FR.> >
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