Wednesday 29 August 2012

First books in Goa


Olivinho Gomes, Konkani Literature in Roman Script: A History (Panaji: Dalgado Konknni Akademi, 2010), supplies the following information about the first books printed in India / Goa:

First books: Francisco Cabral, Conclusoes de Logica, 1556. Manuel Teixeira, Conclusoes de Filosofia, 1556. [3.]

The third: Andre Vaz [probably], Doutrina Christam [in Konkani, Roman script]. Vaz was a senior Goan seminarian, a Ksatriya / Chaddhi / Chardo ‘gaunkar’ from Kormbolli (Carambolim), later the first Goan Catholic priest, ordained in 1558. Based on the popular catechism of Marcos Jorge, then popular in Europe and known to the clergy in Goa. Adapted to the needs of his Goan parishioners. [3-4.]

This is the first printed book in any language in India, and that in Konkani. [4.] So popular that it was reprinted in 1560, “as reported in the chronicles of the period.” Unfortunately no copy has survived “the fierce onslaught on these religious Orders that was decreed by several Portuguese governments, notably in 1758 on the Jesuits and later on all other religious Orders in J.A. Aguiar’s infamous mata-frades (priests’-killer) decree of 1834, and the sheer neglect and indifference that it was subjected to by later generations of the missionaries and apathy from its own people oppressed by a self-depression.” [4.]

Andre Vaz was also credited with the first draft grammar of Konkani, on the basis of which he taught the foreign priests. [4.]

Wednesday 15 August 2012

The Thomas Stephens' Gauravika in Vasai

Yesterday Tony George SJ was kind enough to take me to the Assumption Sisters convent at Rajodi, off Satpala, which is the Virar area, I suppose. Tony had requested his friend and parish councillor Vincent Fargoz to take us in his car. On the way back, Vincent took us to see Prof. Nazareth Misquitta, Principal of St Joseph's College. Prof. Misquitta was the editor of the 'Souvenir' brought out in Vasai on the occasion of the 400th year of Thomas Stephens' year-long sojourn in Vasai. He was kind enough to present me a copy of the Souvenir, or Gauravika. I have just uploaded it and the contents to the Thomas Stephens Bibliography on this blog.

Monday 6 August 2012

Alexander Thannippara, CMI

Saccidananda - Isvara - Avatara: Towards a Re-evaluation of Some Aspects of the Indian Theology. Bonn / Bangalore, 1992.
"Ahimsa." Lexikon der Religionen. ed. F. Konig and H. Waldenfels. Freiburg: Herder, 1987. 12f.
"Atman." Lexikon der Religionen. ed. F. Konig and H. Waldenfels. Freiburg: Herder, 1987. 37f.
"Avatara." Lexikon der Religionen. ed. F. Konig and H. Waldenfels. Freiburg: Herder, 1987. 42f.
"Brahman." Lexikon der Religionen. ed. F. Konig and H. Waldenfels. Freiburg: Herder, 1987. 73f.
"Dharma." Lexikon der Religionen. ed. F. Konig and H. Waldenfels. Freiburg: Herder, 1987. 122f.
"Moksha." Lexikon der Religionen. ed. F. Konig and H. Waldenfels. Freiburg: Herder, 1987. 429f.
"Nirvana." Lexikon der Religionen. ed. F. Konig and H. Waldenfels. Freiburg: Herder, 1987. 

Richard Lopes, SJ

Indian Christology of the Way. Innsbruck: Tyrolia, 2011.

Sunday 5 August 2012

Devadatta Narayana Tilak


Primary

  • Tilak, Devadatta Narayana. Pāula vāṭā.  Mumbai: Mumbai Tract & Book Society, 1939.
  • Tilak, Narayana Devadatta. Bhārtīya Khristī kāydā. Nashik: Nagarika Mudranalaya, n.d.
  • A Kempis, Thomas. Khristānuvartana. Tr. Narayan Vaman Tilak and Devdatta Narayan Tilak. Rev. Ed. J.M. Pithekar. Manikpur Pitha, Vasai Road: Smita Prakashan, 2009. [First published 1924. Reprint in 4 parts 1929-30. Reprint of 4 parts together 1959. Second edition 1968.] 
  • D.N. Tilak, “Narayan Vaman Tilak,” Suvṛtta Prasāra (December 1961) 3-6. [Issue dedicated to] Narayan Vaman Tilak Janmashatabdi 6 December 1961. 
  • Tilak, Devdatta Narayana. Maharashtrachi tejasvini Pandita Ramabai. Pune: White Light Publications, 1960 (1st ed.), 2012 (2nd ed.).


Secondary

Saturday 4 August 2012

Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922)

Primary

  • A Testimony
  • The High Caste Hindu Woman
  • Mukti Prayer Bell and News Letters
  • Famine Experience in India: 1900.
  • Report of Mukti School and Mission
  • Printed Letters to Friends in America
  • Stri-Dharma-Niti
  • Pandita Ramabai hyanca Inglandca pravasa
  • United Statesci loksthiti va pravasavrtta
  • Sabdabij
  • Mulajnanantila vece
  • Ibari Vyakarana

Secondary

  • Tilak, Devdatta Narayana. Maharashtrachi tejasvini Pandita Ramabai. Pune: White Light Publications, 1960 (1st ed.), 2012 (2nd ed.).
  • Dyer, Helen S. Pandita Ramabai: The Story of Her Life. 1900.
  • Gadre, Krishnabai. Smrtisumane
  • Thakre, Prabodhankar. Pandita Ramabai
  • Vaidya, D.G. Pandita Ramabai: Navayuga masikansa prasiddha zhalele lekha
  • Bombay Representative Church Council. Pandita Ramabai yance caritra vangmaya kamiti
  • Ramteke, S.D. and R.N. Harshe. Agresara Stri Kaivari: Pandita Ramabai
  • Eka saksa: Pandita Ramabai
  • Dyer, Helen. Pandita Ramabai: A Great Life in Indian Missions
  • Manoramabai. Pandita Ramabai: A Widow's Friend. Australian Edition
  • MacNicol, Nicol. Pandita Ramabai. Builders of Modern India
  • Underhill, Barbara. Pandita Ramabai: Pioneer
  • Butler, Clementina. Pandita Ramabai Saraswati
  • Fuller, Mary L. The Triumph of an Indian Widow: Life of Pandita Ramabai
  • Chapel, Jane. Women who have Worked and Won