Why blame the Portuguese? They did not invade Goa and may not have had any interest or knowledge of thet place and would have been happy with a factory in Cochin or Calicut or far away Malacca. Please stop this 'Portuguese Invaded Goa' rethoric. Through them they brought the press, literacy and modern medicine and so many other goodies. Things would have been much better, but sadly they were curtailed due to nearly a century of occupation of Portugal by Spain.
MD Subject: Re: [Goanet] BRITISH UNITED INDIA AND HINDUS. Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:41:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Goveia <mgov...@sbcglobal.net> To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] BRITISH UNITED INDIA AND HINDUS. Message-ID: <644333.98562...@web80504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mario responds: Fred, if you had taken the time to read the post by Marcus D'Souza about Christian dominated areas, you would know he wasn't talking about "common interest just because of a shared religion".? He was talking about "Christian dominated areas" now being lost to "Hindu domination". My response was that Goa only "seemed" like a Christian dominated area because of the Christian's who had invaded it and occupied it for 450 years.? We know for sure this benefited Goan Christians far more than Goan Hindus as a generality.