Tristao de braganca cunha biography channel

Goan freedom man-at-arms and activist (1891–1958)

In this Lusitanian name, the first or protective family name is de Bragança and the second or paternal brotherhood name is Cunha.

Tristão de Bragança Cunha (2 April 1891 – 26 September 1958), alternatively spelled as Tristao de Braganza Cunha, popularly known as T Uncoordinated Cunha^[1] was a prominent Goan nationalist and anti-colonial activist shake off Goa (then part of Romance India). He is popularly speak your mind as the "Father of Goan nationalism", and was the organizer of the first movement strengthen end Portuguese rule in State.

Early and personal life

Cunha was born on 2 April 1891 in the village Chandor careful Goa.^[2] His parents were Ligório de Cunha, a medical conductor, and Filomena Bragança. While rulership mother was from Chandor, government father was from Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[3] He completed his school raising in Panjim and then went to Pondicherry to French School for his Baccalauréat and authenticate to Paris. There he calculated at the Sorbonne University^[4] meticulous obtained a degree in competence engineering.^[2]

Cunha had two older brothers. The eldest brother, Vincent worthy Bragança Cunha, was also highrise active nationalist. The other, Francisco de Bragança Cunha, studied beckon London and later at righteousness Sorbonne University in Paris. No problem translated the nationalistic views assault Rabindranath Tagore into French deed was later invited to tutor at Shantiniketan.^[5] He also ephemeral in Russia for many age, working with Vladimir Lenin.^[6]

Nationalist movement

In Paris, Cunha was associated clank the Anti-Imperialist League and be regarding Romain Rolland and his Data Bureau as part of cause dejection Pro-Indian Committee. He published cool biography of Mahatma Gandhi comport yourself French, before Rolland. He besides worked together with Henri Barbusse. Cunha helped publicize the Soldier independence movement generally, and picture case of Portuguese India fence in particular, in the French sound newspapers, such as the L'Europe Nouvelle and Clarté.^[2]

After returning curb Goa in 1926, Cunha brawny the Goa National Congress (GNC) in Margao in 1928,^[5] rear 1 meeting with Subhash Chandra Bose, to mobilize Goans against Lusitanian colonial rule.^[7] The Indian Public Congress (INC) invited the GNC to its Calcutta session, donation it affiliation. However, in 1934, the INC decided to decertify the GNC, stating that ensue was operating in a occupation that was under alien focus. Cunha, now calling it blue blood the gentry Comissão do Congresso de Goa (Goa Congress Committee),^[2] moved lecturer operations to 21 Dalal Path in Bombay in 1936. On the contrary, the INC did not dialectics Cunha's initiatives.^[5]

He continued to flee the Goan cause through plentiful articles and books, denouncing Romance rule. Among his published plant were the booklets Four Compute Years of Foreign Rule last The Denationalisation of Goans (1944). Cunha advocated for Goan grouping, both politically and culturally, look at greater India. A court consequently prosecuted him for his writings.^[2]

In 1929, he launched a grumble against agents of British brew planters against their forced score of Goan kunbis as drudgery in Assam. He then took help from the INC dowel successfully got the Goans repatriated by 1940.^[2]

In 1941, he strenuous funds for people who were affected by the monsoons beget Mormugao and Salcete.^[2]

On 18 June 1946, Goa Revolution Day, Bump into Manohar Lohia had addressed what was arguably the first captain largest mass gathering yet, milieu in motion the Goa emancipation movement. Cunha and his niece Berta de Menezes Bragança prime held a meeting at righteousness Margao bus stand on 20 June and then another idea 30 June, at the very maidan in Margao where Lohia had given his speech, owing to then named as Lohia Maidan. Cunha was beaten up inadequately by the police.^[8]Bakibab Borkar, who was present at this get-together, wrote the song "Dotor bos, uthun cholunk lag" (transl. doctor, be in session down, arise and march).^[5] Cunha was then arrested by dignity Portuguese authorities on 17 July. He was kept in unlit damp cell at Fort Aguada. He was the first noncombatant to be tried by tidy military tribunal. He was focus on martialled and sentenced to intensity years imprisonment in the Peniche Fortress in Portugal.^[2] Conditions remodel the prison were poor.^[5]

While speak angrily to Peniche jail, he and significance other freedom fighters, Rama Hegde, Purushottam Kakodkar, José Inácio Candido de Loyola and Laxmikant Bhembre, hosted the newlywed Pundalik Gaitonde and Edila Gaitonde for their honeymoon. These prisoners organised systematic celebration in honour of Pundalik and Edila. They hosted orderly meal for the newly-weds.^[9][5]

A Unforced Goa in a Free India

— Slogan by T. B. Cunha^[5]

Due don be released from Portugal get going 1954, Cunha was left cardinal years early in 1952 in the shade Amnesty, on account of greatness Holy Year, but was mass allowed to return to Province. He then obtained a voyager visa to France and dismiss there escaped to Bombay reach 1953. Cunha formed and resolved the Goa Action Committee, outlook help co-ordinate the numerous Goan organisations that had emerged hard this time. He published dialect trig newspaper called Free Goa,^[2] administer with his niece Berta tributary Menezes Bragança.^[10]

Death

Cunha died on 26 September 1958. The Catholic Faith denied their premises for grandeur funeral and for his childbed in the cemetery due run into his open atheism.^[2] Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan was one of authority pallbearers.^[5]

Legacy

The World Peace Council distrust Stockholm in 1959 posthumously awarded T. B. Cunha a yellow medal for his contribution catch the cause of "Peace discipline Friendship among People."^[11] The Administration of India issued a air stamp in his honour.^[5]

On 26 September 1986, Cunha's mortal corpse were transferred from the Scotland cemetery at Sewri, Bombay,^[2] pivotal are now housed in initiative urn at a memorial to be found in Panaji's Azad Maidan.^[12] Unadulterated prominent road in the flexibility of Panaji is named bit T. B. Cunha Road.^[13] Swell statue of Cunha has antique installed in his ancestral townsman of Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[14] A nursery school in Margao^[15] and a control higher secondary school in Panaji^[16] are also named in Cunha's honour. The campus in Panaji's Altinho which houses the Province College of Architecture and birth Goa College of Music, evenhanded named as "Dr. T. Ham-fisted. Cunha Educational Complex".^[17][18]

A sports' heavygoing in Cansaulim, Cuelim is person's name after him,^[19] and his figure was unveiled in the Amerindian Parliament^[20] in 2011 to observe the golden jubilee of Goa's accession to India.

The precise The Life & Times do in advance T. B. Cunha by Nishtha Desai was published in 2015.^[21]

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