Regarding my reserach in the field of Goan history and Literature

[smita sail]

Dear all, 

I wish to share my published work in the area of Goan History and its depiction in Goan Literature. I would love to hear your views. I am also open to opportunities for collaborative research in this or related areas. Here is the link to my thesis titled "Religious Zeitgeist of Portuguese Goa: Postcolonial Reading of Select Goan Novels": https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/531606.

Taylor Francis has also published my paper on "The Role of Purity and Pollution Rituals in Religious Conversions of Goa during Portuguese Colonization: A Probe through Select Goan Novels." Here is the link:   https://www.tandfonline.com/share/6KMTZVYBFVAJATVWB4SI?target=10.1080/1369801X.2022.2157308. PFA  the PDF.

Regards

Smita Sail

Assistant Professor

Dept of English

Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Scopus ID: AU/ID 58023467000 

Orchid ID: 0000-0002-6059-6411 

Mobile: 8904632400 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Smita-Sail

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2157308

[William Robert Da Silva]

I would be interested in your work on Goa and the Goan themes. I have
done a life-time work on Goa and taught it for about 10 years at GU
(1988-1997). Continued work thereafter, but concentrated on Konkani
and Konkani Lexicography for a long time and was diverted from
mainstream research.
With best wishes,
Dr. William Robert Da Silva
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[Tony Gomes]

Dear Ms. Sail,

Thank you very much for including my novel “The Sting of Peppercorns” in your thesis on Select Goan Novels. I much enjoyed your read and perspective on select Goan novels. However, I did not complete reading the entire thesis; moreover, I am unable to reopen the link. Can you send the link again or a PDF copy if you have one.

All best,

Antonio (Tony) Gomes

Professor of Medicine,

The Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY.

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<Religious Conversions of Goa TAYLOR Francis journal.pdf>

[smita sail]

Dear Gomes,

Happy to hear from you. I loved reading your novel The Sting of Peppercorns. The realistic portrayal of the breakdown of elite Goan Catholic families post-liberation resonated with my research topic and I have made multiple references to your book in my thesis. Here is a short excerpt from my thesis chapter on Goan sensibility around Goa's liberation:

"The novels bring to the fore the divided political loyalties within the families which was common during the pre-liberation period (Antao, 2010). These characters and the villagers in The Sixth Night are all reminiscent of Donna Georgina, the landlady of Lotulim, whom William Dalrymple describes in one of his essays on Goa. Donna Georgina Figueiredo, like many of her generation caught in the time wrap, refuses to accept the narrative of Goa’s liberation: “When Indians came to Goa in 1961 it was 100 percent an invasion. From what were they supposed to be liberating us? Not the Portuguese, because the Portuguese never oppressed us (2006, 8).” Like Donna Georgina, the educated characters in the novels lament the invasion of Goa, refuse to accept Goa as India and Goan’s as Indians, deepening the Identity crisis. Donna Georgina Figueiredo’s statement echoes with Dona Isabella for whom India was a “distant land with strange men in white Nehru caps, and the non-violent Gandhijis- the satyagrahis, who came across the frontier to claim her beloved Portuguese Goa.” (Gomes 2010, 34). Likewise, the character of Paulo in Sting of Peppercorn is moulded in the cast of Salazar’s ideologies and accepts the status of Goa as an integral part of Portugal since it’s not a colony like India when it was under the British (Gomes 2010, 34). The villagers in The Sixth Night wonder why they are being liberated or from what. They never felt they were slaves of the Portuguese. ‘Jai Hind’ failed to resonate with these villagers who went about their normal business unmindful of the developments (207). The author voices the apprehensions of Catholic Goans about the merger with India. They fear that “[t]heir Christian religion and Portuguese names would definitely be a hindrance and a liability in a Hindu India, as they would be discriminated against as a minority anyway. "

PFA my thesis for your perusal.

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[smita sail]

Dear Dr Da Silva,

There is a lot that can be done in the field of critical study of Goan Literature. Looking forward to collaborating with you on research areas of mutual interest. 

Regards

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[William Robert Da Silva]

I have downloaded your thesis. After reading I will come in contact
with you again. All the best in your further work in the area.
William Robert Da Silva

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[William Robert Da Silva]

I read your thesis and I have many observations to make, the first
being post-colonial. It is a category made critical by writers in
general and when applied to your work as a major theoretical frame it
fits in some way, but leaves out an entire theoretical world they
represented.
If it interests you, we could discuss this theme and some other
themes. Let me take a second look at the thesis with authors chosen
and not chosen. All the best.
William Robert Da Silva