EIP Files
© Prakash J. Mascarenhas, 20th October, 2002.
In all matters we must strive that we not be, as the beasts, mastered by our passions, but that we master our passions by reason, morality and law.
I set out to find old, pre-Reformation (Vatican II) Konkani Christian hymns, and I found the Colaço's The Goan Forum (TGF). Reading the interesting documents there turned my mind from hymns to a more important issue that had been troubling me, but which I had put on the back-burner - the Question of the EIP and its relation to the Indian Union.
As I read the pretensions - the contumacious pretensions - of Harbans Singh and Nitin Singh, my blood began to boil. As I sat down and began to draft out my answers to their contentions, and to the positions elucidated by the various posts on the TGF, I began to revise my understanding of the situation.
When I began to write it, focusing on the Indian Union's claim to possess a natural right to 'reclaim' the EIP, without any obligation of a reference to its people, I was still labouring under the idea that we, the citizens of the EIP owed it some kind of obligation, even though we were unhappy as to the means by which the Indian Union achieved its desired ends.
That is, the Indian Union had only a moral right to our affections and not a legal right, and that it had no legal right, under any condition to seize and incorporate us and our country into ourselves; only we could, in the exercise of our Sovereignity make such a decision, to merge or not to merge. Therefore, the incorporation was and is patently illegal, and is to be reversed.
I laboured under the delusion - a self-delusion, that the Indian Union was, by intention, designed as the Pan-Indian State, an �cumenical State of All India and of All Indians. However, when I had mentally drafted my answers to the contentions of the two Singhs, I began to be able to see things much more clearly. I asked myself: "Why do I deluded myself, constituting myself an apologist for the Indian Union, attributing to it and defending its rights, as if it had constituted itself with the intention to be the �cumenical State of All India and of All Indians, when in both practice and in claims, it, the Indian Union, not only did not make such claims and even actively repudiated them?"
Therefore, as I began to examine the points logically, for the first time, I saw clearly, as I have written above, that this idea, which the Indian Union has zealously sought to always impart to us, both before and after the events of 18th & 19th December 1961, that it has a 'natural' right upon us, our lands, our affections and loyalty, has no basis whatsoever. That is, we, the citizens of the EIP do not have and did not have, ever, any kind of moral or legal obligations or duty to entertain feelings of affection and or loyalty towards the Indian Union, and that the Indian Union has no call upon us.
When I was able to throw off this intellectual blinkers, I saw, for the first time, as clear as crystal, that the Indian Union's very claim or pretension of possessing a natural right to us and our country, was and is entirely and absolutely an immoral act - an act of shameless, hypocritical, unprovoked aggression - and totally unacceptable or condonable!
I can see now clearly, as clear as crystal, that we have been imposed upon and deceived by the Indian Union. We are the victims of Aggression and Imperialism. That is, the relationship between the EIP and the Indian Union is entirely and only that of victim and victimiser. That and nothing more.
EIP Nationalism
There is a further Question: do we, citizens of the EIP, constitute a nation?
Factually, we do not. However, neither are most states of the world nations. Not even the Indian Union. However, it is contemporary to describe the citizens of a state as constituting a nation. Certainly, if the Indian Union can describe itself as a nation, then just as much, we too, of the EIP constitute a nation.
It is a natural progression from recognizing that we have been imposed upon and made the victims of a great and monstrous fraud, to the position that we have the imperative moral and legal duty to reverse and extinguish this crime.
In saying so, I am acutely aware that I am going where, perhaps, no Goan has as yet gone before. I am acutely aware that the peoples of the EIP are psychologically still under the thrall of the Indian Union's Great Lie, and that most (if not such a large majority so as to statistically render the opposite faction insignificant), will reject my ideas, my position.
Moreover, wiser counsels will advice against the propagation of these ideas as being foolhardy and risky.
Nevertheless, Morality and Truth are such great Goods, that one must disregard all fears and boldly witness to them.
One day, soon, I hope, my people will awaken from this lie and recognize the truth. The faster they wake up, the better it is for them themselves, for the situation is not static, and everyday, the ground situation is being altered rapidly to the benefit of the invaders and colonists.
I therefore present the following files on the subject. These are a mixed bag, most of them being from before this realisation. However, the files numbered fourteen to twenty-seven are either new ones or revised ones.
Ave, Patria!
Prakash John Mascarenhas
The Text of The Treaty