The challenge with Goa is that one needs to be working in multiple languages (which mostly doesn't happen), and the influence or dominance of these keeps shifting all the time. For instance, as argued elsewhere (From Text to Print), in the 20th century itself, the preferred languages have changed from Portuguese and Romi Konkani to English, Marathi and later Devanagari Konkani, with some changes in between. Not to mention some of the earlier languages and scripts that were once used here (recently, classes in the largely-lost Modi script were initiated in Goa). Mostly, we are falling short. FN
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Frederick Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا _/ AUDIO https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha _/ http://goa1556.in +91-9822122436 784 Saligao Goa _/ Goanet :: 30 years of discussions. [email protected] _/ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ On Tue, 28 Jul 2026 at 22:50, John de Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote: > Selma, > This has all been well documented by Panduronga Pissurlencar using > original sources. Timoja and the Goan leaders invited Albuquerque to take > over Goa and get rid of Bijapur. When Albuquerque succeeded at occupying > Goa after one failed attempt, he was taken in triumph by the Goans. We > should not use our contemporary ideas on nationalism and colonialism to > call the Goans who supported Albuquerque “traitors.” They were trying to > get rid of Bijapur and Goa was a crucial spot because it was the only > opening to the ocean to the Empire of Vijayanagara. After that, many Goan > Hindus continued to cooperate with Portuguese for many years and the > Portuguese rewarded them handsomely. > John M. de Figueiredo > Sent from my iPhone > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CA%2Bmqab-Lhhsr4UujodJsUg3fo0SUkY1_5o-FigDPmzoMXT48kw%40mail.gmail.com.
