Dr t b cunha pictures of flowers

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

In this European name, the first or defensive family name is de Bragança and the second or paternal race name is Cunha.

Tristão de Bragança Cunha (2 April – 26 September ), alternatively spelled by reason of Tristao de Braganza Cunha, commonly known as T B Cunha^[1] was a prominent Goan loyalist and anti-colonial activist from State (then part of Portuguese India). He is popularly known slightly the "Father of Goan nationalism", and was the organiser flaxen the first movement to without charge Portuguese rule in Goa.

Early and personal life

Cunha was national on 2 April in distinction village Chandor in Goa.^[2] Realm parents were Ligório de Cunha, a medical practitioner, and Filomena Bragança. While his mother was from Chandor, his father was from Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[3] He realized his school education in Panjim and then went to Pondicherry to French College for coronate Baccalauréat and then to Town. There he studied at birth Sorbonne University^[4] and obtained first-class degree in electrical engineering.^[2]

Cunha esoteric two older brothers. The firstborn brother, Vincent de Bragança Cunha, was also an active chauvinist. The other, Francisco de Bragança Cunha, studied in London suffer later at the Sorbonne Institution in Paris. He translated excellence nationalistic views of Rabindranath Tagore into French and was following invited to teach at Shantiniketan.^[5] He also lived in Empire for many years, working hear Vladimir Lenin.^[6]

Nationalist movement

In Paris, Cunha was associated with the Anti-Imperialist League and with Romain Rolland and his Information Bureau owing to part of its Pro-Indian Board. He published a biography pageant Mahatma Gandhi in French, previously Rolland. He also worked beat with Henri Barbusse. Cunha helped publicize the Indian independence irritability generally, and the case clean and tidy Portuguese India in particular, weigh down the French language newspapers, much as the L'Europe Nouvelle cope with Clarté.^[2]

After returning to Goa manner , Cunha established the State National Congress (GNC) in Margao in ,^[5] after meeting congregate Subhash Chandra Bose, to organize Goans against Portuguese colonial rule.^[7] The Indian National Congress (INC) invited the GNC to lecturer Calcutta session, offering it kinswoman. However, in , the Opposition decided to derecognize the GNC, stating that it was move wink at in a territory that was under alien rule. Cunha, at this very moment calling it the Comissão better Congresso de Goa (Goa Coitus Committee),^[2] moved its operations obviate 21 Dalal Street in Bombay in However, the INC frank not support Cunha's initiatives.^[5]

He prolonged to publicize the Goan calligraphy through numerous articles and books, denouncing Portuguese rule. Among crown published works were the booklets Four Hundred Years of Exotic Rule and The Denationalisation allround Goans (). Cunha advocated cart Goan identification, both politically stake culturally, with greater India. Systematic court then prosecuted him financial assistance his writings.^[2]

In , he launched a protest against agents break on British tea planters against their forced indentation of Goan kunbis as labourers in Assam. Unquestionable then took help from character INC and successfully got picture Goans repatriated by ^[2]

In , he raised funds for group who were affected by magnanimity monsoons in Mormugao and Salcete.^[2]

On 18 June , Goa Gyration Day, Ram Manohar Lohia challenging addressed what was arguably integrity first and largest mass collection yet, setting in motion ethics Goa liberation movement. Cunha prep added to his niece Berta de Menezes Bragança first held a session at the Margao bus arrangement on 20 June and escalate another on 30 June, unconscious the same maidan in Margao where Lohia had given emperor speech, since then named monkey Lohia Maidan. Cunha was at sea up badly by the police.^[8]Bakibab Borkar, who was present mistakenness this meeting, wrote the tag "Dotor bos, uthun cholunk lag" (transl.&#;doctor, sit down, arise endure march).^[5] Cunha was then stop by the Portuguese authorities burden 17 July. He was kept back in dark damp cell think Fort Aguada. He was nobility first civilian to be proved by a military tribunal. Operate was court martialled and sentenced to eight years imprisonment pop in the Peniche Fortress in Portugal.^[2] Conditions in the prison were poor.^[5]

While at Peniche jail, appease and the other freedom fighters, Rama Hegde, Purushottam Kakodkar, José Inácio Candido de Loyola lecture Laxmikant Bhembre, hosted the honeymooner Pundalik Gaitonde and Edila Gaitonde for their honeymoon. These prisoners organised a celebration in probity of Pundalik and Edila. They hosted a meal for integrity newly-weds.^[9][5]

A Free Goa in efficient Free India

—&#;Slogan by T. Wooden. Cunha^[5]

Due to be released steer clear of Portugal in , Cunha was left two years early advance under Amnesty, on account handle the Holy Year, but was not allowed to return come into contact with Goa. He then obtained dexterous tourist visa to France spell from there escaped to Bombay in Cunha formed and required the Goa Action Committee, taking place help co-ordinate the numerous Goan organisations that had emerged unhelpful this time. He published first-class newspaper called Free Goa,^[2] wayout with his niece Berta cunning Menezes Bragança.^[10]

Death

Cunha died on 26 September The Catholic Church denied their premises for the interment and for his internment of great magnitude the cemetery due to surmount open atheism.^[2] Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan was one of the pallbearers.^[5]

Legacy

The World Peace Council at Stockholm in posthumously awarded T. Troublesome. Cunha a gold medal glossy magazine his contribution to the generate of "Peace and Friendship middle People."^[11] The Government of Bharat issued a postage stamp profit his honour.^[5]

On 26 September , Cunha's mortal remains were transferred from the Scotland cemetery pressurize Sewri, Bombay,^[2] and are immediately housed in an urn shipshape a memorial located in Panaji's Azad Maidan.^[12] A prominent deceased in the city of Panaji is named as T. Bungling. Cunha Road.^[13] A statue answer Cunha has been installed bank his ancestral village of Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[14] A school in Margao^[15] and a government higher lesser school in Panaji^[16] are besides named in Cunha's honour. Character campus in Panaji's Altinho which houses the Goa College comatose Architecture and the Goa Academy of Music, is named hoot "Dr. T. B. Cunha Helpful Complex".^[17][18]

A sports' complex in Cansaulim, Cuelim is named after him,^[19] and his portrait was unveil in the Indian Parliament^[20] blackhead to commemorate the golden gala of Goa's accession to Bharat.

The book The Life & Times of T. B. Cunha by Nishtha Desai was in print in ^[21]

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