TY - GEN AU - Trichur, Raghuraman S. TI - Refiguring Goa : from trading post to tourism destination SN - 9789380739502 U1 - 954.799 PY - 2013/// CY - Goa PB - Goa 1556 KW - N1 - CONTENTS Preface 7 Acknowledgment 9 Introduction 11 Politics of Goan Historiography 17 Goa Dourada 19 The Traditionalist View of Goa Dourada 20 The Modernist View of Goa Dourada 21 Goa Indica 24 Colonial Goa 32 Establishing Colonial Rule in Goa 34 Trade in Colonial Goan Society 35 Indigenous Mercantile Elite I: Gujarati Vanias 40 Decline of the Portuguese Empire 41 Indigenous Mercantile Elite II: Gaud Saraswat Brahmins 44 Agrarian Transformation in Colonial Goa 48 Pre-Colonial Agrarian Relations in Goa 49 Portuguese Colonialism, Rural Goa's Transformation 53 Erosion of Communal Property in Colonial Goa 55 The Politics of Religious Conversion in Portuguese Goa 56 The Decline of Colonial Goan Society 61 Mercantile Presence in Agrarian Goa 62 Territorial Expansion in the Period of Colonial Decline 67 4 Political Transformations in 20th Century Colonial Goa71 The Portuguese Republic (1910-1926) 73 The Salazarist Regime 77 Politics in Twentieth Century Colonial Goa (1910-61) 82 Post-Colonial India and Colonial Goa (1947-1961) 86 The 'Day After': Political Economy of Post-Colonial Goan Society (1961-1979) 89 The Day After 90 Postcolonial Goan Economy (1961-1979) 94 Tourism as a Strategy for Survival 101 Tourism Development in Post-Colonial Goa 108 Tourism in Goa 109 Goa Assembly Elections -1980 Ill The Master Plan 114 The Other Trend 121 The Japanese Village Project 122 Limitations to Capitalist Profitability 124 The Shack Problem 138 Tourism, Nation-Building: (Re)Locating Goa in Postcolonial India 148 The Argument for Primordial Unity 149 State Formation in Postcolonial Goa 151 Anti-Tourism Reactions in Goa 154 The Pro-Tourism Response 156 Realities of the Tourism Destination in the 1990s 158 State Formation in Postcolonial Goa 159 Appendix: Towards a Critically-Informed Anthropolog)^ of Tourism 162 Bibliography 185 Index 195 ER -