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