Title: The Hindus of Goa And The Portugues Republic (1922)
First published: 2008
Description: 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."