António Mascarenhas (24 February 1916 – 1993) was an Indian writer best known as the author of the book ''Goa from Prehistoric Times'' (1987). He wrote in the
English language.
Life
António Mascarenhas was born at his mother's ancestral home in
Divar
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Goa,
India, on 24 February 1916. He was baptized as Antonio Inacio Salvador Matias Mascarenhas and spent his early childhood in
Zanzibar and his school years at
St. Paul's School, Belgaum
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, after which he joined the
Society of Jesus.
He completed the
Gregorian University
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''. Although he remained a layman, later marrying and raising a family, he was philosophically a
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His work took him between
India and
Portugal and among teaching, real estate, radio, travel planning and writing. He died in 1993 at home in Miraton Gardens,
Chicalim
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, Goa, and was buried on the
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feast day.
Works
Among his known works are the following.
Poems
* ''Poems'' (
Tipografia Rangel,
Bastora
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Goa, c. 1984)
Collected radio talks
* ''Glimpses of the Goan Past'' (? c. 1958)
* ''Essays for Diplomats on the Case of Goa'' (Edições Paulistas, Lumiar, Lisboa, c. 1958)
* ''A Critique of Sir S Radhakrishnan's 'Basis for Human Fellowship'' (Edições Paulistas, Lumiar, Lisboa, 1959)
* ''Goan Life and Outlook'' (? c. 1960)
* ''An Introduction to Goan Folksongs'', Volume 1 (
ear unknown Centro Cultural Goês, Lisboa) which also appeared in a translation by Maria Suzette Carvalho and Tony Mascarenhas (the author's nephew) under the title ''Dulpodam'' (c. 1960,
Centro Cultural Goês, Lisboa).
* Introduction to ''An Introduction to Goan Folksongs'', Volume 2, ''Mande'' which appeared in
Portuguese as ''Poesias do Povo Goês'' by Maria da Paz Cabrita de Barros Santos and Jesuino de Noronha (c. 1960,
Centro Cultural Goês, Lisboa).
Travel guides
* ''Open Sesame, Lisbon!'' (Edições Paulistas, Lumiar, Lisboa, no date printed)
* ''Open Sesame, Fátima!'' (Edições Paulistas, Lumiar, Lisboa, no date printed)
* ''To Fátima and There''. Text and photography by the author (? self-published)
* ''Fátima, A Shrine of Luminous Silence'' (Edições Francisco Mas, Lisboa, 1967)
Biography
* ''Father
Joseph Vaz of
Sancoale
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'' (Self-published, Goa, c. 1980)
Language
* ''A Concise
Konkani Grammar'' (Tipografia Rangel, Bastora, Goa, 1984)
History
* ''A Tourist's History of Goa'' (
Instituto Menezes Bragança, Panjim, Goa, 1981)
* ''Goa from Prehistoric Times'' (Self-published, Goa, 1987)
References
Sources
* Universidade de Aveiro , Fundação Portugal-Africa
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* Carlos A. Moreira Azevedo, ed., ''Bibliografia para a História da Igreja em Portugal (1961-2000)'', Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Lisboa, 2013,
* Thomas Paul Urumpackal, ''Organized Religion According to Dr. S. Radhakrishnan'', Università Gregoriana Editrice, Roma, 1972
* Robert Neil Minor, ''Radhakrishnan: A Religious Biography'', State University of New York Press, 1987.
* Bibliography, ''Luso-Brazilian Review'', Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter, 1969), pp. 104–115, University of Wisconsin Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3512742
* SP Agrawal, Rajeev Kumar Sharma, ''Government and Politics in India: A Bibliographical Study'', Concept Publishing, New Delhi, 1993.
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Writers from Goa
1916 births
1993 deaths