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Wilfred de Souza, surgeon and politician from Goa, India. He served as Goa's chief minister on three occasions when he was a member of the Indian National Congress and the Goa Rajiv Congress Party, during his third tenure [110] Mortó Dessai, medical analyst of Goan origin who worked in Goa and Portugal [111]
The referendum offered the people of Goa a choice between continuing as a union territory or merging with the state of Maharashtra and the majority chose the former. [37] [38] [39] On 30 May 1987, the union territory was split, and Goa was made India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining a union territory. [40]
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Goa coastline at Dona Paula Cashew apples after plucking in Chorão, Goa. The Konkani language spoken in the Indian state of Goa has loanwords from multiple languages, including Arabic, Portuguese, English and Kannada. This is a list of loanwords in the Konkani language.
Note: This article is for information on the ethnic Goan people (many in diaspora), and not residents living within the state of Goa. Goans ( Romi Konkani : Goenkar , Portuguese : Goeses ) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa , India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan ...
Pages in category "Lists of people from Goa" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... List of fiction writers from Goa, India
Gaudas are aboriginal people residing in the coastal Indian state of Goa.They are believed to be the original inhabitants of Konkan.Most follow folk Hinduism, but many were converted to Catholicism by the Portuguese missionaries during the Christianisation of Goa while still keeping their folk tradition and culture alive.
Traditional occupations of Goa refers to the work and jobs which the people of Goa undertook in the earlier times, which might now be coming under pressure for a variety of reasons.earlier farming was an important job carried by the majority of Goan people for their day to day livings. They had to spend most of their time working in their own ...