Talk:East Indians (ethnic group)
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[edit] Forced conversion?
Can citations be please provided to prove use of force for the conversion of these people?
I have books which I consider reliable and which state that Catholic missionaries spent a lot of time and effort at evangelizing them over a long period of years, often more than hundred years, but nothing about the use of force.
Force would also be meaningless, when Portuguese control was only a few kilometers deep on the coast and people who did not wish to be "forced" could easily slip over into more "congenial" neighborhoods!
On a personal note, I am not at all surprised that a "Christian" Goan, who favors India and the humiliations it has unjustly and unwarrantedly imposed upon Goa, out of an implicitly anti-Catholic motivation, and against the Goans who are predominantly a Christian people, brainlessly parrots this vile canard, and passes it off as gospel truth. Speak of Sado-Masochism!
He would make an exemplary recruit to the RSS / VHP / Sangh Parivar.
Or isn't he already there?
What next? Goosesteps? "Heil Hitler"? Narendra Modi is already 90% there!
WikiSceptic 17:12, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Any Historic facts supporting this article???
The author seems to be more interested in spreading his own version of history than the facts.
For instance the theory that East Indians are Konakni Christians who were forced to speak Marathi and ended up imbibing the language is a fancy theory of a few Konkani Catholics who hate Marathis while living in Maharashtra itself.
CAn the author explain why the Marathas forced the Konkani CAtholics to switch their language but did not force them to change their religion ????
Does he\she mean to say that all Lusitanised Catholics in India(including Gujarathis, Marathis, Mallyalis, Tamils and Bengalis) were originally Konkani???
Also I would advise "WikiSkeptic" to carry on advertising his Catholicism on some appropriate forum, and not treat it as his\her personal playground. Can this proud Catholic explain why he\she is afraid of revealing his\her real name??
And if Wikiskeptic feels that the Portuguese did not convert people by force in their colonies around the world, why is it that their empire is almost entirely catholic: Brazil, Goa, Mozambique, Timor etc . Can Wikiskeptic explain the large scale migration of Konkani Hindus to Canara and MAharashtra during Prtuguese rule??
Regards Deepak D'Souza
