Fw: Is GEM Culture the Victim of Academic Baloney - Part III

[Gilbert Lawrence]

Attached is the third installment of a multipart essay on: 

Is GEM Culture the Victim of Academic Baloney? 

(GEM – Goan, East-Indian, Mangalorean)

Since this an extensive topic and we have divided its presentation into four parts.

Part I: GEM’s Colonial Culture.

Part II: Indo-Portuguese Heritage.

Part III: GEM’s Colonial Education.

Part IV: GEM’s Diaspora Culture

We made special efforts to outline the cause-and-effect of actions undertaken in the Overseas Territories (OT), so that readers have additional understanding of the geopolitical and strategic rationale into historical events.  Many of these contradict hand-me-down impressions that have persisted among Indo-Lusitanos about our own history. Knowing our history prevents others from distorting and maligning our story.

We hope you enjoy reading this aspect of colonial history.  There is a lot of ‘food for thought.’ Please forward these articles to your relatives, friends, peers, Indian and Iberian chat sites. Sharing history is sharing our cultural heritage; and the work is for us, by us. Thank you for allowing us to share this with you.

Hope this essay provides the readers with a framework of their historical journey.  Doing the homework will prepare one for Shashi Tharoor’s words of wisdom: “If you do not know where you have been, how do you know where you seek to go? History belongs in the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present.”

Yours sincerely,

Philomena and Gilbert Lawrence, 

Authors: Insights into Colonial Goa,

Published via Amazon in paperback and e-book.

For details about the book and authors see: Insights into Colonial Goa.