Denationalisation Of Goans  (Paperback, T. B. CUNHA)

In the whole of India, no people is so denationalized as Goans. A complete lack of national consciousness and the most shameful subjection to foreign rulers, wither Portuguese or British, render the Goan and particularly the Goan Christian a stranger in his own land. A servile follower of everything foreign to his Country, hybrid in manners and habits living in disharmony with his natural surroundings, his strange behaviour makes one doubt the purity of his race, which nevertheless in no way differs from that the neighboring Indians. He is considered to be of mixed blood on account of the Portuguese names he has adopted and the Western manners he affects. He has even been qualified as “Portuguese mongrel” by Catholic missionary.What, then are the causes of this shameful change which casts a blemish on the good name of our countrymen at this advanced stage of India’s struggle for independence? We must study its origin and causes before we can discover a remedy for this anomaly that obstructs our integration in the freedom movement of the great Indian nation. In the first place, the forced denationalization of Goans is more marked because foreign rule has lasted longer in Goa than in other parts of India. More than four centuries of an uninterrupted colonial oppression could not help producing a pronounced deformation of character. But the time factor alone cannot explain everything. More than this, the peculiarly and intolerant ways of the Portuguese rulers have destroyed or disfigures the national character of Goan people