WHAT IS "GOAN IDENTITYY"? by Lucio Mascarenhas

There are many ideas of what constitutes Goan identity, principally why Goans cannot attain to unity and to unified action or orchestration, against the forces militating against us. Yet there is indeed a Goan Identity, and it needs to be defined.  Goa as it is today is the creation of Portugal and of the Crusading effort, and more specifically of the Crusading effort called the Reconquista or Reconquest.
Portugal and its Iberian neighboring nations (Asturia, Galicia, the Basques of Navarre, Catalonia, Aragon, Castile, Leon, etc., now unified as "Spain") fought for something more than seven hundred years to liberate themselves from the Muslims, the Moors, beginning with the efforts of Don Pelayo, and ending with the Reconquests of Granada and the Algarve (divided into the Portuguese and Spanish Algarves). Soon after, the Portuguese and Spanish carried the momentuum forward by working to reclaim other Christian lands that had been encroached by the Muslims, in North Africa, and to encircle and neutralize the Muslims everywhere. They sailed around Africa, and into the Indian Ocean, which was then an Arab Lake. Cochin under a Hindu king was dominated and controlled by the Arab Muslims; Goa and Bombay and other coastal communities were occupied directly by the Muslims, Goa under the Turkish Adilkhans, cadet dynasty of the Usmanli (Ottomans) and Bombay under the Arab Sultanate of Cambay in Gujarat. The Portuguese fought and defeated the Arabs and Muslims with the aid of the native Hindus in Goa, thus founding the nucleus of present Goa, the Portuguese Christian city-state of Goa, now Old Goa. Over the centuries, this state expanded to include first the counties of Bardez and Salsette, and then of Antruz (Ponda), Quepem, Canacona (from the Soonda Kingdom, overrun by Haider Ali and Tipu, who usurped the Hindu Kingdom of Mysore), Satari, Bicholim and Pernem (from the Rajas of Sawantwadi, sometimes allies, sometimes enemies). Goan identity is principally the identity of the Goan Christians, who are descended largely from Portugal's Hindu allies who willingly converted to Christianity shortly after Goa's liberation on November 25, 1510, St. Catherine of Alexandria, the Dia da Reconquista. Goan Hindus do not have an identity that is very different from Hindus in Goa's neighborhood; it is the distinctive Lusitanized identity of Goan Christians that make them unique.
Over the centuries, the Portuguese compromised and backslid, causing Goans also to substantially compromise and backslide. Portugal first compromised in the face of Dutch Protestant terror and genocide, to ally with Protestant England and to stab Habsburg Spain in the back by seceding and becoming a lackey of the English Protestants. With this came a definite Calvinist racism for the first time, leading to the genocide perpetrated against the Catholic African Kingdom of Congo and the Tupi Amerindian nations of the Jesuit Reductions of Greater Paraguay.
In Goa and in "British India" this led to the eventual English military intervention in Goa under the excuse of securing it from the French Revolutionaries and Napoleon, the seduction of Goans from loyalty to Portugal, and the Anglicization of the Goans, leading to the deracination of many Goan Christians, and to them falling for the false allure and lies of English ideas, Political Anglicanism, which is the foundation of Indianism, perpetrated in different aspects by the Indian National Congress and the Sangh Parivar or "Hindu nationalism," and eventually to the involvement of Goan renegades in the Indian invasion and occupation of Goa, continuing to our time, the Rape of Goa.
Goa was an integral part of Greater Portugal. Goa had no right to secede, and never seceded. Lisbon did not have and does not have the right to disenfranchise Goa or to "gift" or alienate Goa to India or to anybody for that matter. Goa was and remains legally and constitutionally a part of Greater Portugal.
Goan identity is an integral part of the Greater Portuguese identity, and is critically and fundamentally dependent on the mother Portuguese cultural identity, from which, if it is separated, it can only die.  Goan identity is not self-sustaining. Over the last few decades it has been seriously contaminated by cultural Anglicanism and by Indianism.
The Goan identity is part of a larger continuum of Romance or Latin society and culture, including the Hispanic world, the Portuguese world, Francophony, Italy, Austria, Rhaetian Switzerland, etc.  The core or heart of the Roman world, or Latin World, is Catholicism, the religion founded by Jesus Christ, guaranteed by Him, centered on Rome and on Jesus' Vicar who has his base in Rome, as Pope and King.
Goan Culture is not an isolate. It is not static. It came into existence for a specific purpose, is partly the fruit of that purpose, and it can only find its fulfillment in working for the restoration of that purpose, a return to that purpose.
That purpose is the Reconquest, the Crusade, the war of God and His people against Satan and the Kingdom of Darkness, rolling back error and heresy and schism and apostasy and paganism and all evils.
Goans can regain their unity and purpose only by returning to the original purpose: The cause of Don Pelayo and of the Reconquistadores, of Affonso de Albuquerque and of Saints Francis Xavier, Agnelo Gustavo de Sousa, Jose Vaz, etc.
Goans and the Greater Portuguese community can only attain restoration by returning to the true Catholicism of Catholic, eternal Rome, by unconditionally repudiating the Kingdom of Satan in the form of the French, Spanish, Portuguese Revolutions, Pombalism, rejecting the treason of Dom Pedro Braganca.
For Goans, as it is for others who have inherited their faith, renewed and recovered from the Nestorian heresy and schism and from the contamination of Hindu paganism and of Mahomettan superstition and apostasy by the mediation of Catholic Portugal, the Keralites, the Mangaloreans, the East Indians, and every other descendent people partitioned by the malice of the English Protestants from Portuguese unity, it is a matter of life and of death to return and to begin once again to wage war upon the Eternal Enemy and his minions.  God wills it (Deo vult!), and He who has already triumphed, assures us too of triumph in Him.