Other Books of Interest TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA (Ed.) Discoveries Missionary Expansion and Asian Cultures
XCHR Studies Series No. 12
GOA 2011
CHARLES J. BORGES The Economics of the Goa Jesuits 1542-1759 TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA (Ed.) Essays in Goan History C.J. BORGES, O.G. PEREIRA and HANNES STUBBE Goa and Portugal: History and Development C.J. BORGES and HELMUT FELDMANN (Eds.) Goa and Portugal: Their Cultural Links CHARLES J. BORGES (Ed.) Goa and the Revolt of 1787 TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA (Ed.) Goa Through the Ages (Volume 2 : An Economic History) TEOTONIO R. DE SOUZA Goa to Me CHARLES J. BORGES (Ed.) Goa’s Foremost Nationalist Jose Inacio Candido de Loyola: The Man & His Writings
FATIMA DA SILVA GRACIAS Health and Hygiene in Colonial Goa (1510-1961) SHAILA DESOUZA (Ed.) Women’s Health in Goa: A Holistic Approach
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GOA 2011 REVIEWING AND RECOVERING
FIFTY YEARS Edited by
B.S. SHASTRI, (Edited by CHARLES J. BORGES) Goa-Kanara Portuguese Relations 1498-1763
Savio Abreu, Rudolf. C. Heredia
Dr. Rudolf C. Heredia is an independent researcher residing at Campion School, Mumbai. His doctorate in Sociology is from the University of Chicago (1979), and he was the founder director of the Social Science Centre, St. Xavier’s College Mumbai, 1980-1992 and director again from 1994-2003. From 1992-94 he was director, department of research, at the Indian Social Institute, Delhi and edited the institute’s journal, Social Action, 1993-95. His publications include Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India, Penguin, N. Delhi, 2007 and Taking Sides: Reservation Quotas and Minority Rights in India, Penguin, N. Delhi, 2012. He has also published in various journals such as the Economic and Political Weekly, contributions to Indian Sociology, New Frontiers in Education, etc. E-mail:
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Reviewing and Recovering Fifty Years
Dr. Savio Abreu is Director of Xavier Centre of Historical Research (XCHR), Goa. His PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai was a sociological study on New Christian movements in contemporary Goa. He has published articles in various Journals such as Indian Church History Review, Seminar, Social Action, etc. He has published papers in edited volumes, the last one being on “Social Development of the Christian Community in India” in, India Social Development Report 2012: Minorities at the Margins (Oxford University Press, 2013). He is visiting faculty at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth (JDV), the Pontifical Athenaeum in Pune since 2012. Email:
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This book is the outcome of the national seminar, “Goa 2011: Reviewing and Recovering 50 years”, organised on the occasion of the golden jubilee of Goa’s liberation from Portuguese rule. The seminar intended as the first of a series of multi-disciplinary seminars on Goan themes and issues, was convened by the Xavier Centre of Historical Research (XCHR) and the Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr (TSKK) to begin a process of self-education and knowledge-creation to comprehend how the people of this state have shaped and directed their post-colonial history and how specific socio-political and cultural contexts have influenced that contemporary history. The book underlines the rapid and at times traumatic social changes Goan Society is undergoing today. Whether it be in regard to the construction of their past or the preservation of their culture, including that of the subalterns and the marginalized; whether in controversies over their collective identity as Goans, expressed in their language or their politics, whether in relation to the land and its commodification by the market or its objectification with unsustainable development; whether in the search for a relevant education or the struggles of civil society movements—everywhere there is evidence of the complex and multiple impact of rapid change at various levels. What surely is the need of the hour is now to find a horizon of hope within which to understand our world so as to be able to change it as subjects, rather than just coping with it as objects of our own history.