Goan literature is the literature pertaining to the state of Goa in India. Goa has a population of around 1.4 million and an area of 3,700 sq. kilometres...
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Goans (Konkani: गोंयकार, Romi Konkani: Goenkar, Portuguese: Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic...
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Goan Catholics (Goan Konkani: Goenchem Katholik) are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians adhering to the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church...
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Goan Catholic literature is diverse. The indigenous population of the erstwhile overseas Portuguese colony of Goa underwent a large scale conversion to...
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Konkani language (redirect from Goan Konkani)
Olivinho Gomes in his essay "Medieval Konkani Literature" also mentions the Mundari substratum. Goan Indologist Anant Shenvi Dhume identified many Austro-Asiatic...
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Peter Nazareth (category Ugandan people of Goan descent)
the journal Callaloo on Goan literature, and an anthology of its literature, and has championed the work of Mozambique-born Goan writer Violet Dias Lannoy...
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orthodoxy and allegiance to the Holy See. Conversions took place through the Goan Inquisition with the persecution of Hindus and the destruction of Hindu temples...
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The Culture of Goan Catholics is a blend of Portuguese and Konkani cultures, with the former having a more dominant role because the Portuguese ruled Goa...
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Goa (redirect from Goan Hindu)
Goan society underwent radical change when Indo-Aryan and Dravidian migrants amalgamated with the aboriginal locals, forming the base of early Goan culture...
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Goan writers Shenoi Goembab (1877–1946) and later Ravindra Kelekar (1925–2010), who wrote some of the twentieth century's foremost Konkani literature...
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List of people from Goa (redirect from Goans in science and technology)
a list of notable people from Goa, India. This list includes Goans and persons of Goan origin. The names are arranged in alphabetical order in their...
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point of return: modern Goan literature Nazareth, Peter. Goa,1556 and Broadway Book Centre, Panjim 2010 Mahajan, Prabha. "Goan Poets in English'." Panjim:...
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adequately studied, neither in the history of Konknni literature nor in the history of Goan literature. Fernandes’ writings give the impression of pulp on...
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the high standards and promoted Goan literature while keeping the balance between history, political issues and literature. Vinayak Naik is the current editor...
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B. F. Cabral (category Goan people)
Cabral (7 March 1885 – c. 1953), known professionally as B. F. Cabral, was a Goan writer, playwright, and politician who served as the mayor of Karachi during...
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Vimala Devi (category Writers of Esperanto literature)
Baptista Almeida (born c. 1932), known by her pen name Vimala Devi, is a Goan writer, poet, and translator. Vimala Devi was born in 1932 in the village...
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Konkani people (redirect from Goan Hindus)
common amongst the Goans, they normally refer to Konkani as Āmgelī bhās or our language. Sometimes Āmgele can be used in the Goan context to mean people...
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Orlando da Costa (category Portuguese people of Goan descent)
da Costa (July 1929, Maputo − 27 January 2006) was a Portuguese writer of Goan paternal and Mozambican-French maternal descent whose writings express his...
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José da Silva Coelho was a Goan writer who was the author of several dozen pieces of wickedly satirical short fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, published...
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Culture of Goa (redirect from Goan culture)
state of India. Goans are commonly said to be born with music and football in their blood because both are deeply entrenched in Goan culture. According...
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Jaime Valfredo Rangel (category Goan Catholics)
the publication of thousands of books important to Portuguese literature and Goan literature and publication of Portuguese newspaper O Independente and the...
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Christianity in Goa (redirect from Goan Christian)
The Christian population of Goa is almost entirely Goan Catholics, whose ancestors converted to Christianity during the Portuguese rule in India. Christianisation...
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early (1983) anthology of Goan literature. In his essay on nostalgia, the lament of the "Goan exile" and the "search of a Goan self", the late Professor...
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vaddo (deanery of a parish) of Navelim village in Salcette, the son of a Goan Catholic Chardo couple, Francisco Salvador Gomes and Deodata Furtado. His...
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the Grass" for a special issue of Callaloo on Goan literature (and later for an anthology of Goan literature); it concerns Wwamba, an old man who does the...
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Mangalorean Catholics (redirect from Mangalorean Goans)
migrated to South Canara between 1560 and 1763, throughout the courses of the Goan Inquisition, the Portuguese–Adil Shahi War & the Mahratta Invasion of Goa...
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some of the earliest European-printed books in India. Dictionary of Goan Literature (Portuguese) Public Libraries of the 21st Century. Panjim/Panaji, Directorate...
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provides widest range of representations of the Goan subaltern in Portuguese-language Goan literature post-1961, with a particular focus on the experiences...
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1967 Goa status referendum (redirect from Goan Opinion Poll)
religious literature, ceremonies etc. were in Marathi. Some Hindus in Goa believed that Konkani was a dialect of Marathi and hence imagined all Goans to be...
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That is the point when we begin to create literature or art. That’s why a Damodar Mauzo can write about a Goan boy’s life in East Africa in the last century...
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