Discussion on Guts, Glory and Empire hosted by Pensando Goa

[Carvalho]

3 JULY IST 630PM  UK AND PORTUGAL 2PM

Dear all,

I look forward to seeing you all on Friday, where Dr Benedito Ferrao, author of Across Continents: Writing Goans, Making Worlds (African Perspectives) by University of Michigan Press and I author of Guts, Glory and Empire: The Epic Story of Goans in Zanzibar by Speaking Tiger, will be in conversation.

Among the topics discussed will be:

1. The unusual role played by the Portuguese Consulate in Zanzibar established in 1885, which was always under the influence of Goans. It played a pivotal role in creating a quasi-ruling class amongst Goans, which asserted judicial authority and enjoyed an early sense of autonomy.

2. The racism inflicted and endured by Goans in Zanzibar, and the mild complicity of Goans in the slave trade.

3. The drawing of intricate family trees which appear in the book, all of which have been created from scratch by using various archival sources.

The link below to join us from anywhere in the world. See you then.

Warmly,

Selma Carvalho

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Selma Carvalho

Author of Guts, Glory & Empire: The Epic Story of Goans in Zanzibar, 1865-1910 published by Speaking Tiger. 

[Victor Rangel-ribeiro]

My dear Selma,

I look forward to listening to your conversation with Benedito, unless Something untoward happens. I plan to be in Goa later this year, to celebrate my 101st birthday in the land where I was born. Will you be there?

Mog assuni!

Victor

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[smita sail]

Dear Selma Carvalho

Is a recording available for this Zoom meeting? 

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[William Robert Da Silva]

Dear Smita Sail,

Don't you think that the share of Goans in slavery of Africans is greater than you admit here because there was a 'catholic' attitude towards black skin with the tag, not-human and without soul. I have done quite a bit of 'theological search' in Europe and Portugal and in this the basic black is soulless, so he could be enslaved - a total of at least 15 million Africans, Blacks, were taken into slavery from 16th century onwards.,. Colonise, cultivate, colere ...  means to plough with a coulter, ploughshare. Colonise, culture come from these Roman-Latin, Greek-Ionian terms. There was a Colonus in Greek mythology. Ravindranath Tagore translated colonise, culture etc. into Indian language from colere, cultivate; so, culture he called krshttati, krsh, krishi for agriculture, field-ploughing, Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee corrected him and made krshttati into sanskriti (along with sanskrita, cultivated). Vyas, vyavasaaya in India is cultivation from vas- to plough, and leads to vasati, dwelling by cultivation. Jain dwelling as basadi etc.

I lost contact with you over a time.

All the best,

William Robert Da Silva

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[Carvalho]

Dear Dr Smita,

Yes, there is but I can't find it :-) 

However, the book has been recommended/ featured by Scroll, Outlook India, Frontline, the Hindu, the Hindustan, Caravan, Herald, Navhind, Himal Southasian, Tribune, Kitaab, among others, most of which is available online.

Dear members, if you are part of an institution and can lend institutional support, please do so by ordering a copy for your library/institution.

Many thanks,

Selma Carvalho

Author of Guts, Glory & Empire: The Epic Story of Goans in Zanzibar, 1865-1910 published by Speaking Tiger. 

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