The Hindus of Goa And The Portugues Republic (1922)

Says the translator: "Noronha's book is one of those works
that can go a long way towards rectifying and removing many
unsubstantiated assumptions, convenient distortions and
motivated omissions in the so-called mainstream history of
Goa."


Afonso is critical about the "opinions about us and our past"
created by "historians and propagandist, wittingly or
unwittingly at the service of the political and commercial
establishment."


At the other extreme, the translator adds, "the bigots hold
the other with their own brand of 'saffron coloured' history."


He comments: "It is their wont to denigrate the Portuguese
and to deny the Portuguese period in Goa as if nothing else
had happened save the atrocities against the Hindus. That
some of them are cashing in, directly or indirectly, on the
milching cows left behind by the Portuguese only shows well
their talent for duplicity."