M.G. Priya’s research while affiliated with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and other places

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Communidades of Goa: A Re-reading of Select Goan Literature in the Light of Land Laws and Their Effect on Human- Land Equation
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February 2024

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M G Priya

The advent of farming has undeniably transformed the bond humans shared with land. Permanent settlements and ownership of land were the direct outcome of farming. But the sense of ownership that existed in the past is vastly different from the one found today. Goa, a Southwestern coastal state of India, boasted of a unique self-sustaining system of governance where land was held under common ownership of a village community-the 'gaunkari'-which remained largely unaffected by periodical changes in the ruling dynasties. As described by Gomes Pereira in the opening lines of his book, Goa-Gaunkari: the Old Village Associations, "Gaum is a village. Gaunkar was its freeholder and gaunkari, his association, a small Republic." (1) It was primarily an autonomous body, the system governed by the unwritten codes of village assemblies that functioned independently. But the advent of the Portuguese and the following imperial hegemony of Portugal over Goa for over 450 years permanently altered the social fabric of this coastal state.

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The Role of Purity and Pollution Rituals in Religious Conversions of Goa During Portuguese Colonization: A Probe Through Select Goan Novels

December 2022

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Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

The Colonial period of Goa, a small southwestern state of India, colonized by Portugal for over 450 years, is often considered a period of pollution and impurity. This essay seeks to understand the role of purity and pollution rituals in the religious conversions of sixteenth-century Goa. We undertake to closely analyze the fictionalized instances of conversions in the select novels and draw references from historical documents. The essay combines socio-literary and historical approaches to the subject to present a broader tapestry of the religious upheavals in Goa, mainly in the sixteenth century.