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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The original article and Antonio's comments have useful pointers. I have not read the Herald Article. But I have a hunch that either St. Paul or Teotonio is being quoted out of context in relation to the education of the poor in Goa during Portuguese time. Clarification welcome. If one seeks to employ "cooks, butlers, ayahs and nannies", why would one recruit educated individuals (men)? Was the education of Goans in the nineteenth century to do with caste or gender? Be it in Europe or India, education for better or worse, was a commodity expended on males than females. To me, it appears the British recruited the Indians who were best suited for the job-at-hand ... naturally. Their sepoys were Gurkha, Sikhs and other ethnic Hindus with in-bred fighting skills. India provided Britain with 670,000 men for World War I and contributed two-and-a half million men for World War II. This was two-and-half times the contribution of Australia and four times the contribution of Canada. Regards, GL --------- Antonio Menezes write: The Goan catholic church may not have been entirely wrong in denying education to poor Goan catholics. Teotonio R.De Souza writing on Medieval Goa (Herald Aug 1) quotes St. Paul writing to Romans ''Noli propter escam destruere opus Dei --- Do not destroy God's work for the sake of food.'' ------------- By Valmiki Faleiro Retreating officers recruited 3,300 Goan sailors for the Royal Navy, a few thousand as clerks, and a few more thousand as cooks, butlers, ayahs and nannies. Rudyard Kipling, who spent his childhood in Bombay, was later to reminiscence, "My ayah was Portuguese Roman catholic, who would pray, I beside her, at a wayside cross."
