Untold Truths: An exposition of Caste System in Colonial Goa
Keywords:
Caste system, Teotonio D’souza, caste and castelinks, malignant, Ribeiro quotesAbstract
Caste system and its omnipotent influence was a chain for some and a crown for the other: the upper class? Could anyone from the lower classes escape these caste links that bound him? India was ruled by the hypocrisy of caste and castelinks. This system continued, surpassing regimes and rulers. In colonial Goa, caste system existed. In his Introduction, to Donna Young’s Mirror to Goa, Victor Rangel Ribeiro a Goan writer, living in America explains, “Caste is perhaps the most pernicious feature of that common culture; it has not only survived Catholicism but now permeates it like a malignant virus. Teotonio, lays it on the line “No discussion on Goan identity can be complete by ignoring the caste system that dogs Goan society. (Ribeiro, 2009, p. 15) Here, Ribeiro quotes Goan historian, Teotonio D’souza, to reiterate that caste system, has been, and continues to be a part of life for the native.
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