Charudatt Prabhudesai <char-...@hotmail.com> wrote: I do not expect a great many gawde's and kundbies - although they may be Catholics - to share this pro-Portuguese sentiment.
jc COMMENT: Unless I conducted a valid survey, I would not venture to speculate beyond the proverbial '45%'. . However, I cannot fathom anyone (sensible) preferring any form of subjugation esp the one from which there is never going to be any liberation, ever. I refer to the Caste System. Wonder what the Gawdes and Kunbis (whatever their faith) have to say about that? If I was a Gavde or a Kunbi, who do you believe I would be "pro" - the one who dispossessed me of my land and made me a outcaste, or the one who took the land away from the one who lorded (and still lords) over me? ps: Sometimes, one is pro-that because one is actually anti-this. jc