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Book Essays in Goan History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Teotonio R. De Souza
  • Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9788170222637
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Essays in Goan History written by Teotonio R. De Souza and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rough Guide to Goa

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Goa written by David Abram and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Goais the most thoroughly researched and engagingly-written guide to Portugal's former colony. You'll find detailed accounts of every major tourist sight, along with candid reviews of all the best places to sleep, eat, drink and shop, in all price ranges. The title includes first-hand coverage of the regions resorts, beaches, markets, monuments, temples and wildlife sanctuaries, as well as its more off-beat sights, from prehistoric rock carvings deep in the forest to colonial-era mansions. The full-colour introduction and inserts, along with inspirational photography, give you a flavour of this region's Portuguese legacy. The guide includes all the practical advice you'll need before you arrive, and comes complete with expert coverage of the regions history, religion, environmental issues, wildlife, and language. The Rough Guide to Goais like having a local friend plan your trip!

Book Goa

    Goa

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  • Author : Maria Couto
  • Publisher : Penguin Books India
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780143033431
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Goa written by Maria Couto and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1961, Indian Troops Marched Into Goa Putting An End To Over 450 Years Of Portuguese Rule, The Longest Spell Of Colonialism On The Subcontinent, And Goa Became Part Of The Indian Union. In Popular Imagination, However, Goa Has Remained A Place Not Quite India, And Stereotypes About Goa And Goans Abound. Maria Aurora Couto S Unique Blend Of Biography, Memoir And Social History Brings Us The Goa Behind The Beaches And Booze Culture That Is Projected For The Tourist And Which Has Unfortunately Come To Define Goa For The Vast Majority Outside The State. Starting With An Account Of The Immediate Aftermath Of Liberation, Couto Goes Back And Forth In Time To Examine The Fundamental Transformations In Goan Society From 1510, When Afonso De Albuquerque Conquered Goa, Up To The Present. Drawing Upon The Experiences Of Her Own Family And Those Of Others, Both Hindu And Catholic, She Writes Of The Influences That Have Touched All Goans The Luso-Indian Culture; Conversion And The Inquisition; Political And Cultural Changes In Europe Such As The French Revolution And The Ideals Of Republicanism; Folk Traditions, Music And The Konkani Language; And, Ultimately, Freedom And Integration With India. In The Process She Reveals How Goa, Which Combines The Best Of Traditional And Cosmopolitan Lifestyles, Has Evolved Into India S Twenty-First-Century Model Of Economic Development And Communal Harmony. Written With Sensitivity, Insight And Scholarship, Goa: A Daughter S Story Is At Once Expansive And Intimate: A Moving Narrative About Home, The Village And The World, In Which The Author Crosses The Boundaries Between History And Memory, Truth And Imagination, To Evoke Personal And Community Experience. It Is As Much An Appraisal Of Goa S Past As It Is An Examination Of Its Present And A Vision For Its Future.

Book Religion and Empire in Portuguese India

Download or read book Religion and Empire in Portuguese India written by Ângela Barreto Xavier and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colonial subjects to Catholicism? In Religion and Empire in Portuguese India, Ângela Barreto Xavier examines these questions through a reading of the relevant secular and missionary archives and texts. She shows how the twin drives of conversion and colonization in Portuguese India resulted in a variety of outcomes, ranging from negotiation to passive resistance to moments of extreme violence. Focusing on the rural hinterlands rather than the city of Goa itself, Barreto Xavier shows how Goan actors were able to seize hold of complex cultural resources in order to further their own projects and narrate their own myths and histories. In the process, she argues, Portuguese Goa emerged as a space with a specific identity that was a result of these contestations and interactions. The book de-essentializes the categories of colonizer and colonized, making visible instead their inner-group diversity of interests, their different modes of identification, and the specificity of local dynamics in their interactions and exchanges—in other words, the several threads that wove the fabric of colonial life.

Book Goa

    Goa

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  • Author : Kara Dalkey
  • Publisher : Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
  • Release : 1997-05-30
  • ISBN : 9780812549423
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Goa written by Kara Dalkey and published by Tom Doherty Assoc Llc. This book was released on 1997-05-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrusted with an important task that will take him into the perilous waters of East Africa and India, apothecary's assistant Thomas Chinnery is alarmed when the ship's captain turns pirate. Reprint.

Book Goa Freaks

Download or read book Goa Freaks written by Cleo Odzer and published by Blue Moon Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Culture  Risk and HIV AIDS Among Migrant and Mobile Men in Goa  India

Download or read book Culture Risk and HIV AIDS Among Migrant and Mobile Men in Goa India written by Ajay Bailey and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mumbai and Goa   Time Out

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  • Author : Editors of Time Out
  • Publisher : Time Out Guides
  • Release : 2011-03-03
  • ISBN : 1846702127
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Mumbai and Goa Time Out written by Editors of Time Out and published by Time Out Guides. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chaotic, 13-million-strong melting pot of ethnic groups from all over India, Mumbai is India's economic engine and home to the world's largest film industry. 600 kilometres away, the golden beaches of Goa feel like another country. Drawing on insider expertise, this book discusses both locales.

Book Behind the News  Voices from Goa s Press

Download or read book Behind the News Voices from Goa s Press written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Virus on the Beach  A British tourist gets caught in Goa s brutal sex trafficking

Download or read book A Virus on the Beach A British tourist gets caught in Goa s brutal sex trafficking written by Subhuti Anand Waight and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking novel that exposes the harsh reality of Goa's sex trafficking industry, which government reports confirm is now the biggest in India. Two young trafficked women, one from Nagaland and one from Nepal, meet a British tourist on the beach, during the pandemic lockdown, and seek his help in escaping their grim fate. Sucked into a world of criminals, gangsters and female escorts, the tourist finds himself taking increasingly desperate measures, including violence and killing.

Book Psychedelic White

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  • Author : Arun Saldanha
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1452913072
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Psychedelic White written by Arun Saldanha and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Psychedelic White is one of the most innovative, refreshingly different analyses of race I have read in the last decade." —Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely The village of Anjuna, located in the coastal Indian state of Goa, has been one of the premier destinations on the global rave scene for nearly two decades. The birthplace of Goa trance, the most psychedelic variety of electronic dance music, Anjuna first attracted adventurous Westerners in the 1970s who were drawn there by its tropical beaches, tolerant locals, and readily available drugs. Today, rave tourists travel to Goa to take part in round-the-clock dance parties and lose themselves in the crowds, the music, and the drugs. But do they really escape where they come from and who they are? A rich and theoretically sophisticated ethnography, Psychedelic White explains how race plays out in Goa’s white counterculture and grapples with how to make sense of racism when it is not supposed to be there. Goa is a site of particularly revealing forms of interracial collision, and contrary to author Arun Saldanha’s expectations that the nature of rave would create an inclusive atmosphere, he repeatedly witnessed stark segregation between white and Indian tourists. He came to understand race in its creative dimension as a shifting and fuzzy assemblage of practices, environments, sounds, and substances—dance skills, sunlight, conversation, cannabis, and tea. In doing so, his work shows how the rave scene in Goa harbors conflicting tendencies regarding race. The complicated intersection of cultures and phenotypes, Saldanha asserts, helps to consolidate whiteness. Race emerges not through rigid boundaries but rather through what he terms viscosity, the degree to which bodies gather together for pleasure and self-transformation. Challenging the prevailing conception of racial difference as a purely social construction and offering building on the works of Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Psychedelic White presents nothing less than a new materialist approach to race. Arun Saldanha is assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota.

Book Essential Goa Cookbook

Download or read book Essential Goa Cookbook written by Maria Teresa Nenezes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two hundred recipes from one of the best coastal cuisines of India The spicy, succulent seafood of Goa is as famous as the golden beaches and lush landscape of this premier tourist destination of India. Traditionally, the Goan staple was fish curry and rice but under Portuguese influence there developed a distinctive cuisine that combined the flavours of Indian and European cooking, with local ingredients being used to approximate the authentic Portuguese taste. So fish and meat pies were baked with slit green chillies, assado or roast was cooked with cinnamon and peppercorns, pao or bread was fermented with toddy, and the famous baked bol was made with coconut and semolina. This innovated, largely non-vegetarian cuisine was offset by the traditional and no less sumptuous vegetarian creations from the Konkan coastland, rich with coconut and spice. The Penguin Essential Cookbooks are a pioneering attempt to keep alive the art of traditional Indian cooking. Each of the books is written by an expert chef who brings together the special recipes of a region or community along with a detailed introduction that describes the rituals and customs related to the eating and serving of food. A delicious mix of Portuguese and Konkani flavours, rich with coconut and spice. This cookbook showcases an entire range of Goan food, with special attention to fish, prawn, pork and chicken. The recipes include: Bebinca Goa Fish Curry Mutton Xacuti Oyster Patties Prawn Balchao Sorpotel Stuffed Crab Tiger Prawns in Fen Vindaloo.

Book Houses of Goa

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  • Author : Heta Pandit
  • Publisher : King Street Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Houses of Goa written by Heta Pandit and published by King Street Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial and Post Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese

Download or read book Colonial and Post Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese written by Paul Michael Melo e Castro and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together established scholars of Lusophone Goan literature from India, Brazil, Portugal and Great Britain. For the first time in English, this volume traces the key narrative works, authors and themes of this small but significant territory. Goa, a Portuguese colony between 1510 and 1961, was the site of a particular and particularly intense meeting of West and East. The problematic yet productive encounter between Europe and India that has characterised Goa’s history is a major theme in its literature, which affords important insights and material for post-colonial thought. Goan literature in Portuguese is the only significant Indian literature to have been written in a European language other than English and, as such, provides both a challenging point of comparison with anglophone Indian literature and a space to examine post-colonial theory often implicitly embedded in a British Indian colonial experience.

Book The Goa Inquisition

Download or read book The Goa Inquisition written by Anant Kakba Priolkar and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Goan

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  • Author : Michelle Mendonça Bambawale
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
  • Release : 2023-12-22
  • ISBN : 9357083227
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Becoming Goan written by Michelle Mendonça Bambawale and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goa’s magnetism and its promise of a relaxed, almost bohemian lifestyle, have always attracted admirers and colonizers. Before the locals could make up their minds about such interlopers, Covid-19 brought hordes of them to town—Michelle Mendonça Bambawale was one of them. In June 2020, Michelle found herself moving to the 160-year-old house she had inherited in Siolim, a village in North Goa, with her human and canine family. Having never lived in Goa before, she couldn’t help but wonder if her Goan ancestry made her an insider or if she would forever remain an outsider. In this memoir, she confronts her complex relationship with her Goan Catholic heritage and explores themes of identity, culture, migration, stereotypes and labels. She also uncovers some of the uncanniest legends that pervade Siolim, including those of St. Anthony and the Snake, Sao Joao, and the statue of Beethoven. She also takes us back to Siolim and Goa in the 1970s and 1980s, where she spent her summer vacations without paved roads or electricity, pulling water from a well. Today, she dodges reeking septic tankers, earth movers and piling plastic garbage while walking her Labrador, Haruki. Becoming Goan is a heartfelt and charming story of Michelle's love for this land that her grandparents left her. She cares deeply about Goa's biodiversity and is distraught about the environmental impact of tourism, construction and mining. Her devotion to Mother Earth deepens as she learns more about her roots, steeped as they are in syncretic traditions.

Book Goa

    Goa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Harding
  • Publisher : Lonely Planet
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781740591393
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Goa written by Paul Harding and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goa has all the swaying palms and white-sand beaches you could ever want, but go beyond the beach and you'll find hidden delights : Portuguese mansions and Hindu temples, bike rides among shimmering rice paddies and walks through lush spice plantations. Discover the tropical indulgences of India's most laid-back region with this essential guide. * tips on how to choose your perfect beach * where to find the best food and the most atmospheric accommodation * the latest on Goa's ever-changing party scene * coverage of gateway cities - Mumbai and Chennai * how to haggle and what to buy * 33 detailed maps