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Oral History and a Memoir Shed Light on Goa's Tangled Past: Romeo and Juliet in the Shadow of Empire

2017; Linguagem: Inglês

10.62791/28ne3m36

2573-1432

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro,

Cuban History and Society

Abstract: In the latter part of the nineteenth century, in Socorro, a village in Goa, the prominent landowner Caetano Manuel Ribeiro was pro-Portuguese, while his neighbor, Hipolito Caetano Pinto, was an outspoken nativist who evaded arrest by hiding in a secret chamber under the floor of his home. However, he had to flee to Bombay when the Portuguese accused him of fomenting the 1895 Rane rebellion. Hipolito then swore that no daughter of his would marry a Ribeiro; he had no idea that death and Cupid would mess with his plans. A son-in-law’s memoir throws light on a troubled period in Goa’s history.