Brahmin or Bahujan? Heritage or Embarrassment? The Conflicted Identity of the Goan Temple (Amita Kanekar)

[Frederick Noronha]

BRAHMIN OR BAHUJAN? HERITAGE OR EMBARRASSMENT?
THE CONFLICTED IDENTITY OF THE GOAN TEMPLE

This paper is about the conflicts in which the Goan temple is today
embroiled, and their impact on its architecture. There is little doubt that
taste—or aesthetic choice—in temple architecture has changed in Goa from
the late Portuguese era to today, with the result that the architecture of
the Goan temple is now a seriously endangered part of Goa’s cultural
heritage.

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[William Robert Da Silva]

FN, There is the case of Brahmana in Goa who are fish consumers. Could the boys of these families have access to temple service? If they can't, who then takes up the service for them in the temple? I have done extensive work on this in Canara where SB, GSB temples are served by Brahmana. There is also the case of deities, hardly any of them are traditiona or puranic. They ae local and renamed as puranic. How do you think the re-intereptation goes?

William Robert

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[António Colaço]

At some point of the very interesting paper authored by Amita Kanekar, a reference is made to the patronship of the temples. Concerning this issue I would be grateful if I could be more elucidated on the subject. 

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[William Robert Da Silva]

Brahmana were Marathi who came down to Goa. Fish eating, trading, and land-owning (bhattkar with zonn) - these are not brahmana 'caste' occupations. Why and how did they change? Eating fish, could they serve as priests in temples? I did some very intense study of Mhamai Kamat in Panaji for more than five years. They were traders before the Estado. Their documentation was persuasively appropriated by XCHR by Teotonio R. de Souza when I was at Jesuit House with Braz, Gregory, and CM's brother, D'Souza of GIM. I have lost the MSS at Alvas in Mudubidri, when my library was shifted there. Recovery would be hard.

W R da Silva

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