A listing … of some old books at Porvorim

Xavier Centre of Historical Research, the Alto Porvorim Jesuit-run institution headed by Dr Délio Mendonca sj, recently put together for the GOMANTAK TIMES this list of some of the oldest books available at their library.

Says the XCHR: “All books are in good condition. The Library is open from 9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 to 5 p.m. On Saturdays, the library closes at 1 p.m.

• Miranda, Jacintho Caetano Barrteo, Quadros históricos de Goa, Margao, Typographia do Ultramar, 1863-1865, vols.3. (Portuguese).
• Gracias, J. A. Ismael, Apontamentos para a história da representação provincial no Esatdo da India, Nova Goa, Imprensa Nacional, 1891, 49p. (Portuguese)
• Gracias, J. A. Ismael, Agulha fixa da invenção de Jeronymo Osóri da Fonseca no século XVII, Nova Goa, Imprensa Nacional, 1882, 135p. (Portuguese)
• Gunjikar, Ramchandra Bhikaji, Sarasvati Mandala, or A Descripation of the Maratha Brahmans, Bombay, Nirnyasagar, 1884, 172p. (Marathi)
• Xavier, Felippe Nery, Collecço de bandos, e outras differentes providencias que servem de leis regulamentares para o governo economica e judicial das provincias denominads das Novas Conquistas, Panjim, Imprensa Nacional, 1840-50, vols.2, 600p. (Portuguese)
• Danaita, Yashavant Fondaba Naika & Wagle, Ramchandra Govinda, The history of Goa, ancient & modern, Bombay, Asiatic Printing Press, 1873, 111p. (Marathi)
• Gomes, F.L., A liberdade da terra e a economia rural da India Portugueza, Lisboa, Typographia Universal, 1862, 102p.. (Portuguese)
• Xavier, Felippe Nery, Defensa dos diretios das gaõcarias, e gaõcares, dos seus privilegios, contra a proposta de sua dissolucao, e diviso das sus terras, offerecide ao ex. Governo geral do Estado da India, Nova Goa, Imprensa Nacional, 1856, xvi, 104p. (Portuguese)
• Pinto, Christovam, Politica Colonial Internacional Estados Unidos da India, Lisboa, Antiga Casa Bertrand Jose Bastos, 1898, 284p. (Portuguese)
• Costa, Antonio Anastasio Bruto da, Goa sob a dominação portugeza, 2nd ed., Margao Typographia do Ultramar, 1897, 305p.. (Portuguese)

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Roman script Konkani… in new form

Dev b^ro dis di~v. Tu~ k^so asay? Ha~v b^ro asa~. Tuje~ na~v kite~? Mh^je~ na~v Pedru. Tu~ kh^~y ravtay? Ha~v Go~ya~ ravta~. Ko~knni Go~ychi razbhas. Tuzo bapuy kite~ k^rta? Mh^zo bapuy xeta~t kam k^rta. Tu~ mhaka ek narl ani pa~ch a~be dixi? Falya~ tuka haddun dita~. Ha~v p^rva~ tanger vet^lo~. Ami tumger az yeta~v. Tumi godd khayat ani ud^k piyeyat. Ambo godd asa. Ti kh^`y veta? Ti ig^rjek veta….

What’s that?

It’s no computer-generated gibberish. It’s the new form of writing Roman script Konkani, being proposed and propagated by the Jesuit-run Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr of Porvorim. If you haven’t seen it so far, grab a copy of the 2005 published 52-page book titled ‘TSKK Romi Lipi: Ko-knni b^ro~vchi rit)’.

After many years of supporting Devanagiri Konkani, the TSKK has recently and rather drastically come out strongly in favour of the Roman (Romi) script. But a modified Romi script it is. The ^s and the ~s are supposed to help you to get closer to the actual Konkani pronounciation. Even while making it easy to reproduce on a computer!

On women and girls in Goa

  

Shaila Desouza of the Centre for Women’s Studies (at the Goa University, Goa) sent in a copy of the book she co-authored with Ms Nirmala Sitharaman of the National Commission for Women (New Delhi). Looking forward reading that more closely.

Incidentally, the NCW site is here. (Oops, some problem with the URL?) They can be contacted via email at mahila alfa.nic.in

This book: 119 pages, May 2004, price not mentioned. Large format. Paperback.

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