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WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE is a view of the Goan experience in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania of the 1950s and 1960s, through the lens of music. Musicians as far away as East Africa, India, and North America are inspired and connected through jazz. Leading the story are intimate and engaging first-hand accounts of musicians, whose friendships continue through good and difficult times. In this moving portrayal of Goan jazz musicians and the role they played in enriching ...
Study the past if you would like to divine the future, said Confucius. Known to the outside world for its scenic beach, the rural South Goan village of Arossim has a long and complex history. Situated between the Arabian Sea and tributaries of the River Sal, this agricultural land has sustained inhabitants since Neolithic times. Early tribal rituals, Hindu traditions, and Christian practices have each contributed through the centuries to the unique character and ...
The first church in South Goa was built not in Verna, site of the first Mass on the soil of the district in 1519, nor in Cortalim, which saw the first conversion to Christianity in Salcete in 1560. It was not built in Margao, the principal centre of the district either. The first church was not built by the Franciscans, the first to arrive in India, or by the Jesuits, who evangelized Salcete.... This book offers facts, solves puzzes and throws up colourful ...
The Gavddas (also known as the Kunbis) were the first known settlers in this Land of the Golden Harvest which today goes by the name of Goa. Later settlers took advantage of this peaceful community, usurped their land and refashioned their deities. Today, centuries later, they find themselves on the fringe of Goa’s development, largely excluded from policy-making, and bearing the ill effects of unplanned and unwanted ‘development’.
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This is a ring-side view of India's changing times in the first five decades after Independence, though the eyes of a military man. Ian da Costa's story begins in Nagpur of the 1940s. In that Central Indian city, a community of Goans worked hard and smart to build their future. Those were times of ferment and tumultuous change. We encounter the military transitioning from a colonial British-run institution to one serving Independent India. From life in the Indian ...
This book sets out to challenge our current understanding of Goan society and its history. Rather than filling in our knowledge with details of Goa along the lines of well-established conventions, REFIGURING GOA pushes the study of the region in a new direction. It asks fresh questions, challenges long-held orthodoxies, and encourages us to refigure our understanding of issues that affect Goa today. Following a critical reading of Goan historiography from ...
This insightful work on the artistic features of the buildings erected by the Jesuit religious society in Goa deal with their architecture, painting, sculpture, woodcarving. It delves into the artistic and cultural influences that shaped the structures. Arguing that the Jesuit art in Goa had a different approach compared to the Jesuit art on other places and the Jesuits in Goa were crucial in determining the nature of Catholic art in the state, it discusses their ...
Salt has been an important produce of the coastal region of Goa on the west coast of India for centuries and has been exported from there to countries in Africa and the rest of Asia. But today, the traditional salt sector lies decimated and threatened by extinction, says a new book on the subject.
