Dr t b cunha pictures of flowers

Goan freedom aeroplane and activist (–)

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

Tristão de Bragança Cunha (2 April – 26 September ), alternatively spelled owing to Tristao de Braganza Cunha, generally known as T B Cunha^[1] was a prominent Goan leader and anti-colonial activist from State (then part of Portuguese India).

He is popularly known little the "Father of Goan nationalism", and was the organiser diagram the first movement to limit Portuguese rule in Goa.

Early and personal life

Cunha was natural on 2 April in nobleness village Chandor in Goa.^[2] Consummate 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 organized his school education in Panjim and then went to Pondicherry to French College for coronate Baccalauréat and then to Town. There he studied at rectitude Sorbonne University^[4] and obtained expert degree in electrical engineering.^[2]

Cunha abstruse two older brothers.

The firstborn brother, Vincent de Bragança Cunha, was also an active nationalistic. The other, Francisco de Bragança Cunha, studied in London innermost later at the Sorbonne Installation in Paris. He translated excellence nationalistic views of Rabindranath Tagore into French and was late invited to teach at Shantiniketan.^[5] He also lived in Country for many years, working be more exciting Vladimir Lenin.^[6]

Nationalist movement

In Paris, Cunha was associated with the Anti-Imperialist League and with Romain Rolland and his Information Bureau hoot part of its Pro-Indian 1

He published a-one biography of Mahatma Gandhi ton French, before Rolland. He additionally worked together with Henri Barbusse. Cunha helped publicize the Amerind independence movement generally, and nobleness case of Portuguese India fluky particular, in the French jargon newspapers, such as the L'Europe Nouvelle and Clarté.^[2]

After returning rise and fall Goa in , Cunha planted the Goa National Congress (GNC) in Margao in ,^[5] end meeting with Subhash Chandra Bose, to mobilize Goans against European colonial rule.^[7] The Indian Internal Congress (INC) invited the GNC to its Calcutta session, annual payment it affiliation.

However, in , the INC decided to decertify the GNC, stating that originate was operating in a locale that was under alien register. Cunha, now calling it nobility Comissão do Congresso de Goa (Goa Congress Committee),^[2] moved hang over operations to 21 Dalal Thoroughfare up one`s in Bombay in However, honesty INC did not support Cunha's initiatives.^[5]

He continued to publicize glory Goan cause through numerous term and books, denouncing Portuguese manipulate.

Among his published works were the booklets Four Hundred Maturity of Foreign Rule and The Denationalisation of Goans (). Cunha advocated for Goan identification, both politically and culturally, with better India. A court then prosecuted him for his writings.^[2]

In , he launched a protest despoil agents of British tea planters against their forced indentation break into Goan kunbis as labourers suspend Assam.

He then took whiff from the INC and favourably got the Goans repatriated give up ^[2]

In , he raised resources for people who were unfilled by the monsoons in Mormugao and Salcete.^[2]

On 18 June , Goa Revolution Day, Ram Manohar Lohia had addressed what was arguably the first and a-one mass gathering yet, setting stop in full flow motion the Goa liberation bad humor.

Cunha and his niece Berta de Menezes Bragança first restricted a meeting at the Margao bus stand on 20 June and then another on 30 June, at the same maidan in Margao where Lohia difficult given his speech, since at that time named as Lohia Maidan. Cunha was beaten up badly building block the police.^[8]Bakibab Borkar, who was present at this meeting, wrote the song "Dotor bos, uthun cholunk lag" (transl.&#;doctor, sit deign, arise and march).^[5] Cunha was then arrested by the European authorities on 17 July.

Explicit was kept in dark drenched cell at Fort Aguada. Fiasco was the first civilian cling on to be tried by a combatant tribunal. He was court martialled and sentenced to eight epoch imprisonment in the Peniche Fastness in Portugal.^[2] Conditions in say publicly prison were poor.^[5]

While at Peniche jail, he and the keep inside freedom fighters, Rama Hegde, Purushottam Kakodkar, José Inácio Candido turn Loyola and Laxmikant Bhembre, hosted the newlywed Pundalik Gaitonde view Edila Gaitonde for their honeymoon.

These prisoners organised a performance in honour of Pundalik see Edila. They hosted a beanfeast for the newly-weds.^[9][5]

A Free Province in a Free India

—&#;Slogan get by without T. B. Cunha^[5]

Due to make ends meet released from Portugal in , Cunha was left two early in under Amnesty, magnitude account of the Holy Collection, but was not allowed designate return to Goa.

He as a result obtained a tourist visa entertain France and from there refugee to Bombay in Cunha watchful and headed the Goa Come to mind Committee, to help co-ordinate loftiness numerous Goan organisations that difficult emerged by this time. Unquestionable published a newspaper called Free Goa,^[2] along with his niece Berta de Menezes Bragança.^[10]

Death

Cunha dreary on 26 September The Comprehensive Church denied their premises ferry the funeral and for internment in the cemetery justification to his open atheism.^[2] Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan was one care for the pallbearers.^[5]

Legacy

The World Peace Senate at Stockholm in posthumously awarded T.

B. Cunha a au medal for his contribution statement of intent the cause of "Peace keep from Friendship among People."^[11] The Direction of India issued a mien stamp in his honour.^[5]

On 26 September , Cunha's mortal leftovers were transferred from the Scotland cemetery at Sewri, Bombay,^[2] tolerate are now housed in settle urn at a memorial settled in Panaji's Azad Maidan.^[12] Well-organized prominent road in the bring of Panaji is named importance T.

B. Cunha Road.^[13] Trig statue of Cunha has back number installed in his ancestral townsman of Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[14] A college in Margao^[15] and a decide higher secondary school in Panaji^[16] are also named in Cunha's honour.

The campus in Panaji's Altinho which houses the State College of Architecture and excellence Goa College of Music, even-handed named as "Dr. T. Discomfited. Cunha Educational Complex".^[17][18]

A sports' setup in Cansaulim, Cuelim is titled after him,^[19] and his likeness was unveiled in the Amerindian Parliament^[20] in to commemorate authority golden jubilee of Goa's attainment to India.

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

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