A Goan Apologia
Contra A Brown-Nose Anthem

©Prakash J. Mascarenhas. 13th September 2003.
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Message #004981 on Goanet.org
Re: Colaco
From: Agnelo Mascarenhas
Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:26:15 -0700 (PDT)

Paulo,

your love of democracy and freedoms is amazing, your references to manipur and the princely states show that. the portuguese ruled goa for 450 years, can you tell goa-netters when democracy bloomed in goa in those years? are you refering to the free choice that slaves had under slave trade? are you refering to the the religious freedoms under the inquisition of 250 years or the large scale destruction of temples / mosques? orphans handed over to the church to be converted against the wishes of their kin ? if conversions by the portuguese were voluntary, how come there were none outside their territories? were natives allowed into ecclesiastical offices? are you refering to the new found freedom of converts who were decultured i.e. changed their names, surnames, food habits etc.? the wealth used to dot the land with churches? was goa built by acquisition of territory by loving and peaceful negotiations with native rulers? what UN resolutions? I might want blood money for the 450 year rule.

your love of democracy and freedoms seems to surface with the forceful ejection of the portuguese. you are naive to expect moral wonders from india.

there are ample opportunities for goans to complain, the fact is you are a minority. get in touch with reality with an opinion poll on goanet: are you opposed to the 1961 merger of goa with india? agnelo


Dear Friends,

An interesting post. Amazing, how successfully the invaders have brainwashed our people, so that they become enthusiastic champions for India's Rape of Goa... Truly amazing.

But that last question is most interesting. I would like to counterpose my own: Are you, as a Goan, AWARE of any Merger, Plebiscite, Referendum, etc., by which we Goans voted to be part of the Indian Union? I am a Goan and a Christian. For me, both are vital, as against optional. That is, I take my identity as a Goan and as a Christian, not as hobbies but as real life realities. Therefore, if I found that I had no answer for a particular problem or difficulties concerning either of these, I will make all efforts to find the answers. And if I found that the difficulties are genuine, I will admit it.

My father's family has a tradition that they were Hindu Brahmins, priests of the local temple in the hamlet where we originated, now called after the Nossa Senhora da Livramento, before we became Christians. The Chapel of Livramento was originally constructed on the site of this temple. One elder, now departed, even gave me a surname, Shenoy. However, it is also true that there is no tradition at all that we were Coerced to become Christian. The lack of that tradition is important and hugely significant.

Nor is there any such tradition from my mother's side.

I do not believe that my parent's families were exceptional. The vast majority of Goans who are descended from pure Goan origins do not have any such traditions. But a small minority does.

I have no information as to why my ancestors chose to adopt Christianity, and why they were not part of the Hindu faction that withstood the missionaries' drive to proselytize Goa and therefore even departed Goa into exile when expelled for stirring up a reactionary campaign. That silence in the traditions, both paternal and maternal, is crucial and telling.

To know what happened, it is necessary to study the history of Goa during those times. I have already gone over this ground many times, but will do so again.

In south-central Peninsular India, a Hindu brahmin, Gangoo, converted to Islam. His descendants, known as Bahamani or Brahmin, founded the Bahamani sultanate. Overtime, the Sultanate splits up, breaking up into something like seven or more independent sultanates.

One of these sultanates was that of the Adilshahi, based in Bijapur, to the east of Goa. The Adilshahate invaded and conquered Goa, then predominantly Hindu, though with Jain, Nestorian and Muslim minorities. The Goans appealed to the large Hindu Empire of Vijayanagar for aid, and it defeated the Adilshahate and liberated Goa. After about eighty years, Bijapur again invaded and conquered. This time, Vijayanagar told the Goans that it could not spare the energy to liberate Goa and suggested that they seek aid from the Portuguese, who were known for their intense loathing for Islam.

The Goans turned to the Portuguese, who, after a false step in February, succeeded in finally liberating Goa in November 1510.

My ancestors were called Gaud Saraswat Brahmins, a people that still exist. The Gaud Saraswats originated as Aryans who had settled the Saraswat River basin in what is now Punjab. The land suddenly desertified and the Saraswat Aryans were reduced to refugees all over Peninsular India.

The Hindus today like to claim that the Aryans originated as an indigenous reform movement among the peoples of India. But the records of the Hindus, or the Aryans, themselves belie these claims.

These records tell that the Aryas immigrated from a land called the Uttara or Northern Kuru, the precise location of which is now lost, but which is definitely outside the limits of Peninsular India. Uttara Kuru is idealized, sort of the Hindu Paradise, and this tradition has been carried over into Buddhism.

Throughout history, peoples have migrated and have conquered and colonized lands. There is nothing exceptional about this. Even in India, both before and after the Aryas, there had been such immigrations.

However, the Aryan invasion was exceptional for a reason. The Aryans made a religion of racism and pioneered Apartheid, under the name of Varna-asrama - the colour-code.

Under this system, the Aryans not only brutalized and debased the previous peoples of India, but institutionalized this brutalization and dehumanization, that has continued unabated to our day.

The beneficiaries of this institutionalized Apartheid are the three self-defined "Upper Castes" of Hinduism: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas. My ancestors were Brahmins.

Today, the Hindus like to pretend that the ancient, enigmatic civilization that was discovered about a hundred and fifty years ago, in the Indus river basin, was built by the Aryans. The facts are contrary.

The historical records left us by the Aryans tell us that when the Aryans built their first city in India, Indraprastha, they had to have it designed and its construction supervised by a captive Naga architect. That is because the Aryas were unacquainted with the art of city-building.

However, over time, the Aryans successfully eliminated all learned and educated persons from the conquered people and reduced them to a sub-human level. For centuries and for centuries they have been exploited and robbed of their human dignity, even as the Aryas and the Hindus elevated dumb beasts as their "gods"! Today, these victim people give themselves a new, revolutionary name: Dalits or The Broken or Victimized People.

If one were to calculate the Blood Money that the beneficiaries and votaries of the Varnashram owe these Dalits, it would be more than what they could payback even over the next three millenia.

As I have said, my ancestors were from the community of perpetrators, the Brahmins. However, according to the Hindu code, those who have abandoned Hinduism lose their caste and become outcastes - or Mlechhas. This class also includes all aliens, all those who are not Indians.

To recap, those who embraced Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Islam, etc., thus abandoning Hinduism, became, from the Hindu viewpoint, Mlechhas.

This fact has been drilled deep into the Hindu mindset, thus creating an obstacle to their conversion.

However, despite this, my ancestors converted, as did the vast majority of Goans. They were fully aware of the consequences, as viewed from the Hindu viewpoint, that they thereby ceased to be Brahmins, Kshatriyas or Vaishyas and became Mlechhas. Yet they willingly accepted that.

Jesus Christ was born a Hebrew in Israel. Therefore, according to the Hindu system, he was a Mlechha. It is important to note that the Hindus would not, under any circumstance, teach the secrets of their religion to such a Mlechha. I mention this because some persons maliciously pretend that Christ came to India and learnt from the Hindus.

As Christians, when we become Christians and participate in the Christian sacraments, we partake of and become incorporated into the Body of Christ. We thus gain the same Caste Status as Christ had, as viewed from the Hindu viewpoint. That is, if we had been Brahmins, we had repudiated it when we consented to be baptized and to put away the works of Satan, such as Brahminism, and we had become, from the Hindu and Christian viewpoints, Mlechhas in Christ Jesus.

Of course, there is no such thing really as a Mlechha or a Brahmin. The only truth was that there was the Hindu racist, who was a servant of Satan.

The Caste System was a very rigid thing. It would not admit non-members. Latter on, due to the influence and pressure of Christians - the Portuguese, French, English, the Caste System has been mitigated in the urban areas. That is, the adherents of the Caste System do not practice as openly and as rigidly as they used to do.

It is important to note the historical fact that this process was not easy and certainly far from being voluntary. The Portuguese, French and English had to literally drag the Hindus in their respective spheres, screaming and fighting all the way, out of Hinduism and into humanity. If the Portuguese and other Europeans had only this to their credit, it would still be an immense credit.

However, even so, the reform of the cities is merely cosmetic, and is actively sought to be reversed following the end of European rule. In the Dehats and Mofussil areas, however, Caste reigns supreme, triumphant and unreformed.

In Goa, when the Conquistadors overthrew Bijapur, first in the city of Goa, and then in the districts of the Isles of Goa, Bardez and Sashti, together called the Velhas Conquistas or Old Conquests, and these new Portuguese possessions were swamped by missionaries from Portugal and from Europe. The large number of missionaries preached the Gospel and proselytized actively all over the place. This resulted in a reaction.

A small minority of Upper Caste Goans could not accept and stomach this new situation and stirred up a campaign of anti-Christian hysteria. Christians were sought to be excluded from the community, ostracized and banned, robbed of the right to inherit, to farm, to participate in the trades or in the market, and so on. And this campaign naturally developed into a campaign of sedition, an attempt to alienate citizens from affections for Portugal.

The missionaries complained to the King of this intolerable situation and demanded that he do his duty by expelling this minority of recalcitrants who were terrorizing others from freely adopting Christianity.

Following the orders of expulsion, these recalcitrants relocated their idols and homes outside of the Portuguese possessions, some in nearby areas while others even further away. Yet, the missionaries followed them and made numerous converts even among them. This is a historical fact.

In the south of Peninsula India, in the Malabar, where the Portuguese had first touched down, they encountered a sect of Christians, the Nestorians who depended on the Nestorians of Assyria-Chaldea, what the Arabs call Iraq. They were a persecuted, demoralized people, and when they learnt of the arrival of a new Christian people off the coast, they were overjoyed. A delegation of senior representatives met the Portuguese and presented the regalia of the last, now long extinct, Christian Kingdom in the Malabar.

The Portuguese worked long and hard to wean off these people from Nestorianism and bring them back to Catholicism. This they successfully accomplished. Decades latter, the Dutch Calvinists, seeking to hurt Spain and Portugal, attacked the Malabar and began to persecute and enslave the Catholics. Many fled into the interior where too the native princes, at Dutch instigation, persecuted them. Many Christians were martyred in this time, both at the hands of the Dutch and of the native princes, men such as the illustrious martyr Pillai, dewan of a native prince who had been converted by these refugees from the Dutch, and whom the prince had murdered for converting to Christ.

Under this tremendous terrorist pressure from the Dutch, a substantial group of Catholics invented injuries by the Portuguese and the Catholic Church and seceded at the Broken Cross. They sought to revert back to Nestorianism, but found that the Assyrians themselves had been largely won over to Catholicism. Therefore, with Dutch assistance, they turned to the Jacobite heresy of Aram, Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia.

Even here, however, no sooner had Dutch pressure waned, then the majority returned to Catholicism. The net result was that the Catholics outnumbered the Jacobites and this is true even today, with the descendants of the Catholics outnumbering the Jacobites.

The Portuguese also made many converts among the local peoples of Tuluva-Haiva, what is now called the Tulunad. Other missionaries fanned out all over the Tamil country and Bengal making converts.

Prior to the arrival of the Dutch, and the subsequent persecution and suppression of Catholics at the hands of the Dutch and at the hands of the native princes, the Mughals, etc., there were substantial and flourishing communities of Christians all over peninsular India.

At Dutch instigation, the Mughals suppressed the Portuguese missions in Bengal; however, Catholicism continued to smolder under the surface until England began to prevail in the region. There is today a substantial population of Bengali speaking Catholics descended from these converts. They are to be distinguished from the descendants of runaway Portuguese who became pirates and who settled in some of the riverine ports of what is now Bangladesh. Most of these latter were absorbed into Islam.

The question has been asked: Did Portugal permit natives into Ecclesiastical offices. The book, The Padroado-Propaganda Conflict answers that, although it too is biased and does not state the full truth.

In the book's appendix, there is a long list of Goans who served as Episcopal Administrators of the Dioceses of Goa, etc., as bishops, and in other positions. The first Goan bishops were Custodio Pinho and Tome de Crasto. Crasto was arrogant and conceited, so that the Portuguese could not work with him; however, they had no difficulties working with Pinho, who even administered the diocese of Goa during an episcopal vacancy, and who consecrated the next Bishop of Goa.

In the first stage of Portuguese rule, the Portuguese tended to accept Goans on equal terms, even though they encountered certain difficulties - principally the effort by "Brahmins" to monopolize the priesthood.

After the "reforms" of Pombal, the numerous educational institutions established by the religious were all ruined, Goan education, society and culture dealt a shock from which it never recovered, and relationships between Goan and Portuguese changed for the worse.

Nominally, Goans benefitted because they were enfranchised in the civil sphere. However, the great impact of Pombal was on Goan Education, which never recovered from the devastation.

The latter generations of Goans were comparatively uneducated. And the latter generations of Portuguese were increasingly infected by the European ideas of White Superiority, imbibed from the Protestants, having been formulated by John Calvin.

The question has been asked: Why did Portugal "deculture" Goans, i.e. changed their names, surnames, food habits etc.? One man's culture is another mans unculture. The Hindus look upon the culture of the adivasis as being uncultured. Some years ago, when reports came in of starvation deaths among the adivasis of Malegaon in Khandesh, administered by Maharashtra, the reports told of how civil officers harangued the victims for their un-Indian (sic!) names, so unlike the Hindu names. And yet, we hear this nonsense that the Portuguese "decultured" us Goans!

There was a specific reason, however, why the Portuguese imposed Portuguese names, surnames and customs, etc., on Goans while they did not impose the same on the Malabar Christians. And that is because the small minority of Goan Hindus who were recalcitrants and mischief-makers, actively worked to cause the neophytes to backslide, to revert to Hinduism. Lusitanization became the means to safeguard against this. As such, it was and is eminently legitimately and justified. Especially when we consider that Hindu names are not necessarily Indian names or even Goan names - the Hindus are as much immigrants as the Portuguese!

The question has been asked: Did Portugal gain territories "by loving and peaceful negotiations with native rulers?" I ask back: Did native or any other rulers acquire territories by such means? Did the Aryans? Did the Hindus? How did the Hindus impose themselves on Buddhist India? Did the Buddhists who had been of "low caste" origins willingly and enthusiastically accept to be reverted back to a sub-human condition?

But it is nevertheless true that Portugal acquired Goa by invitation of the Goans, that the vast majority of Goans were amenable to Portuguese rule and to conversion to Christianity and voluntarily converted. I challenge my opponents to prove otherwise.

Nevertheless, we Goans are not Portuguese, and after the lapse of a certain time, it was our expectation that Portugal should have permitted us to emerge as an independent community. We could have retained a relationship with Portugal if we desired it.

Portugal, however, failed to do this, and insisted on parking itself upon us long after the need had passed.

For that reason, Goans had been for long dissatisfied with Portugal.

However, despite our dissatisfaction with Portugal, we did not at any time ask India to invade and we did not choose to become Indians. As a matter of fact, India pointedly refused to permit us our right to self-determination and has rested its "legal" case to own Goa upon nothing more than its robbery and might.

As Goans, we have a different culture from the Indians. We are a distinct people. India has no moral or legal or any other rights upon us. We could not and did not become an automatic extension of India merely because it has violated all norms of law and has forcibly occupied our country. Quite on the contrary.

What we have is nothing more than an occupation, a crime against humanity.

India has invaded us and "annexed" our land as its by some kind of birth-right. This is not a procedure that any self-respecting people can or ought to countenance and connive at. It is destructive of all morality. Morality, on the other hand, demands, commands a rejection of this imposition and demands, commands that the victim nation resist by all means and procure their liberation.

But there are traitors who subvert us and who have subverted us, so that during the last fourty plus years our people have been deluded and put to sleep.

The biggest of these traitors is the Church, or rather the Antichurch. This is that organisation that has, on a world-wide scale abandoned Christianity for the Modernist Apostasy, even while pretending to continue to be the Catholic Church, pretending to be led by "popes" - presently by "John-Paul II".

This is the most Indianist, pro-pagan institution. It teaches Goans that India and its Rape of Goa is something glorious, something to be celebrated.

The Antichurch, under Valerian Gracias, conspired with the robbers. The Antichurch conspires today to subvert and mislead Goans. They are part of the system that foists upon us a contrived, Indianized, and bastardized version of the Konkanni language, "Kunkknni", whose words are forced to conform, not to the Konkanni idiom, but to the Indian: the Sanskritic, Hindu Idiom. This bastardized Konkanni is foisted on the Goan people in the churches, in the services and in the schools that the Antichurch controls.


©Prakash J. Mascarenhas. 13th September 2003.
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