Luso Asian

Since 1961 the relatively tiny ex-Portuguese Goa has been transformed from a rather forgotten and underdeveloped colonial enclave to a state within the Indian Union with a strong tourism sector and one of the highest per capita-income of any Indian state. The success of Goa today allows one to forget that its colonial past resulted in thousands of Goans being forced to migrate to ‘British India’, East Africa and the Persian Gulf. Historical research has tended to focus on 16th and 17th century “Golden Goa” or its liberation. At the same time 19th and 20th century histories of the Persian Gulf and East Africa have been Eurocentric in focus or have stressed indigenous narratives in the post-colonial period. Both of these directives have excluded the migrant story, and it is this hidden history that is investigated in this paper, with particular reference to the development of an army of Goan administrators for the areas under the jurisdiction of the Bombay Presidency of British India. The paper also sets out to identify the relationship between Goans and their colonial rulers in East Africa and its implications for cross-cultural relationships between Goans and other Indians as well as Africans.

The meeting of multiple cultures and their mutual influence during the Portuguese expansion in Asia led to the emergence of different types of fusion styles in objects commissioned by the settlers, merchants, and religious orders present in Portuguese India. The east-Asian lacquer coatings of modestly sized wooden objects of various types dating from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries have been analyzed as part of the research for a doctoral thesis that aims to establish their cultural and geographical attribution within the context of the Getty Conservation Institute’s lacquer research project. Among the objects were three seventeenth century lacquered trays from Portuguese museums and private collections that had previously been classified
as Japanese Nanban, Chinese or Ryukyuan lacquers or even as Indo-Portuguese artifacts. The materials and techniques that were identified show close similarities with Chinese techniques mentioned in historic accounts — the only existing Ming Chinese Treatise on lacquering Xiushi lu and the eighteenth-century memoirs of the Jesuit priest d’Incarville. These nearly 400-year-old artifacts are among the first lacquered objects commissioned by Europeans and probably the first of Chinese origin. Their detailed technical study contributes to international lacquer research and complements existing knowledge and perceptions of the lacquering processes that were applied in response to an early European demand for exotic items.

Resumo: Tendo como cenário a dimensão, a pluralidade e a complexidade do chamado " espaço da lusofonia " , propomos uma reflexão acerca de concepções de política linguística, procurando focalizar os tópicos " difusão " e " internacionalização " da língua, temas frequentes em discursos oficiais (como no Plano de Ação de Brasília, de 2010, resultante da 1.ª Conferência da Língua Portuguesa no Sistema Mundial, pro-movida pela CPLP, e em fóruns de organismos como os da AULP e do IILP). Dois argumentos recorrentes são a integração desse espaço para a mistura das pessoas (como lembra o angolano Ondjaki) e a inserção da língua no plano global. No entanto, é necessário considerar os inúmeros desafios e dificuldades na formula-ção e implementação de políticas objetivas, adequadas a cada contexto e eficazes para todos. Como parte disso (tendo em conta, especialmente, experiências em contexto timorense), acredita-se na necessidade de se buscar o fortalecimento e a disseminação do português, ao mesmo tempo que se defende o (re)conhecimento e a legitimação das variedades linguísticas nacionais, valorizando a unidade na diversidade
da lusofonia.
Palavras-chave: lusofonia; política; linguística; difusão linguística; CPLP.
Abstract:
Having in the context the dimension, the plurality and the complexity of the
so called “Lusophone space”, we propose a reflection upon the conceptions of
linguistics policies, seeking to focus the topics “diffusion” and “internationalization”
of the language, mandatory issues in official speeches (such as the “Plano
de Ação de Brasília” (Brasília Action Plan), in 2010, result of the “1st Conference
on the Portuguese Language in the World System, promoted by the CPLP, or the
forums of organisms like the ones from AULP and from IILP. One of the recurrent
arguments in those speeches is the integration of that space to the blend of
people, as said by the Angolan Ondjaki. However, it is necessary to consider the
numberless challenges and difficulties in the formulation and implementation of
objective policies, suitable to each context and effective to everyone. As part of
this (especially at the account of experiences lived in the East Timor context), we
believe in the need for seeking the strengthening and the dissemination of the
Portuguese Language, as long as we defend the recognition and the legitimation of
national linguistic variants, valorizing the unity in the diversity of the Lusophony.
Keywords: Lusophony; linguistic policies; linguistic diffusion; CPLP.

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In this article I compare and contrast the comparative constructions in the Luso-Asian Creoles, establishing their similarities and dissimilarities with Portuguese as well as with all the most relevant adstrate languages. Through a detailed look at a particular construction, this study aims to uncover the various creoles’ degree of reliance on either lexifier or adstrate models and unearth potential links between them. The results of this study are then articulated with a number of comments previously made about the Luso-Asian creoles in particular (such as their interrelatedness, and the perceived impact of socio-historical differences on linguistic structure) and language contact in general (such as the role of congruence in the selection of linguistic features).

European Network of Comparative Literary Studies (REELC/ENCLS) 6th Biennial Congress. Organised in collaboration with CLAI (Comparative Literature Association of Ireland)
Themes: “Longing and Belonging”
Places: Dublin City University and National University of Ireland, Galway
Dates: 24-28 August 2015

The First World War was a war of empires that took place on land as well as at sea. National identities are based on many of the land battles and especially those sea battles in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. However the Indian and Pacific Oceans were also places of action, where the physical, political and cultural relics of previous dominant empires continued to play a maritime role.
This paper is focused on the Luso-Asians, a disparate group of people from former Portuguese colonies in Asia who served under foreign flags and on foreign ships often before Portugal actually entered the war in March 1916.
This research is new, having been compiled in the last three years from multidisciplinary sources around the Pacific and in the United Kingdom. It provides an insight into the continuation and adaptation of maritime cultures to cope with changing imperial fortunes and labour demands and focuses on the emerging evidence from the Great War.

... Prof Badriyah Haji Salleh. ... It is a rather popular point of view which portrays the negative aspects of Malacca Portuguese-Eurasians during the Dutch era that is shared by historians and writers from this community, such as the late Bernard Sta Maria and Gerard Fernandis. ...

In early 1607 when the East India Company was preparing to send its first fleet to India, four Asian men were already in London and requested work on these ships as a means to getting home. the men all had Portuguese names; Marcus, Joao Mendes, Joao Rodrigues and Joao Taro. Where did these men come from what was and what was their story? Through original inter-disciplinary fieldwork in Macaronesia, as well in South and Southeast Asia, this paper is an invesigative research into the origin of the the earliest medieval seaborne Asians to arrive into the Atlantic Ocean from their original homelands in the Indo-Pacific regions. Throwing light on a narrative that has been projected from the perspective of "European pioneers" from the opposing direction.