Migrants from Goa -- often struggling, trying to struggle the austerity of circumstances -- scoured the world in search of a new life. From British East Africa and the Arabian Gulf to the New World of America and elsewhere. For a story that traverses the globe, this is one which has so far got precious little attention. Selma Carvalho tracks down the Goa migration experience across continents and cultures. From these pages, dramatic and often unknown figures of our yesterdays emerge, and jump out tell you waht went into the making of a now largely successful Diaspora. Their lives, their loves, their toil and their perseverance which eventually transformed our collective society and Goa as we know it today. * * * This book starts out in colonial Goa (and offers some interesting insights of how the British saw it), moves on to the Arabian Gulf, and then into the "New World" (the US). It takes us to the world of the Empire -- Britain itself, East Africa, Malawi, London, Swindon and more.
