Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Wilfred de Souza, surgeon and politician from Goa, India. He served as Goa's chief minister on three occasions when he was a member of the Indian National Congress and the Goa Rajiv Congress Party, during his third tenure [108] Mortó Dessai, medical analyst of Goan origin who worked in Goa and Portugal [109]
Note: This article is for information on the ethnic Goan people (many in diaspora), and not residents living within the state of Goa. Goans ( Romi Konkani : Goenkar , Portuguese : Goeses ) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa , India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan ...
Konkani language variants of most Goan Catholic names are derived from Hebrew, Greek, and Latin names from the Old and New Testament Biblical canons.Nowadays Hindu names like Sandeep, Rahul and Anita, etc. are also given.
The referendum offered the people of Goa a choice between continuing as a union territory or merging with the state of Maharashtra and the majority chose the former. [37] [38] [39] On 30 May 1987, the union territory was split, and Goa was made India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining a union territory. [40]
Descendants from the state of Goa in India. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. ... Pages in category "People from Goa"
The Konkani people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Konkan region of the Indian ... Goa: a State in India where Konkani is the official language.
Gaudas are aboriginal people residing in the coastal Indian state of Goa.They are believed to be the original inhabitants of Konkan.Most follow folk Hinduism, but many were converted to Catholicism by the Portuguese missionaries during the Christianisation of Goa while still keeping their folk tradition and culture alive.
Pages in category "Lists of people from Goa" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... List of fiction writers from Goa, India