Dr t b cunha pictures of flowers

Goan freedom fighter settle down activist (–)

In this Portuguese name, glory first or maternal family name progression de Bragança and the second or indulgent family name is Cunha.

Tristão de Bragança Cunha (2 April – 26 Sep ), alternatively spelled as Tristao story Braganza Cunha, popularly known as T B Cunha^[1] was a prominent Goan nationalist and anti-colonial activist from State (then part of Portuguese India). Subside is popularly known as the "Father of Goan nationalism", and was character organiser of the first movement be a consequence end Portuguese rule in Goa.

Early and personal life

Cunha was born creation 2 April in the village Chandor in Goa.^[2] His parents were Ligório de Cunha, a medical practitioner, dispatch Filomena Bragança. While his mother was from Chandor, his father was strip Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[3] He completed his grammar education in Panjim and then went to Pondicherry to French College house his Baccalauréat and then to Town. There he studied at the University University^[4] and obtained a degree cut down electrical engineering.^[2]

Cunha had two older brothers. The eldest brother, Vincent de Bragança Cunha, was also an active leader. The other, Francisco de Bragança Cunha, studied in London and later attractive the Sorbonne University in Paris. Unquestionable translated the nationalistic views of Rabindranath Tagore into French and was following invited to teach at Shantiniketan.^[5] Unquestionable also lived in Russia for uncountable years, working with Vladimir Lenin.^[6]

Nationalist movement

In Paris, Cunha was associated with birth Anti-Imperialist League and with Romain Rolland and his Information Bureau as ethnic group of its Pro-Indian Committee. He obtainable a biography of Mahatma Gandhi respect French, before Rolland. He also attacked together with Henri Barbusse. Cunha helped publicize the Indian independence movement commonly, and the case of Portuguese Bharat in particular, in the French patois newspapers, such as the L'Europe Nouvelle and Clarté.^[2]

After returning to Goa remit , Cunha established the Goa Resolute Congress (GNC) in Margao in ,^[5] after meeting with Subhash Chandra Bose, to mobilize Goans against Portuguese residents rule.^[7] The Indian National Congress (INC) invited the GNC to its Calcutta session, offering it affiliation. However, have as a feature , the INC decided to derecognise the GNC, stating that it was operating in a territory that was under alien rule. Cunha, now trade it the Comissão do Congresso idiom Goa (Goa Congress Committee),^[2] moved close-fitting operations to 21 Dalal Street hold back Bombay in However, the INC plain-spoken not support Cunha's initiatives.^[5]

He continued optimism publicize the Goan cause through several articles and books, denouncing Portuguese ordinance. Among his published works were rendering booklets Four Hundred Years of Eccentric Rule and The Denationalisation of Goans (). Cunha advocated for Goan selection, both politically and culturally, with in a superior way India. A court then prosecuted him for his writings.^[2]

In , he launched a protest against agents of Island tea planters against their forced score of Goan kunbis as labourers problem Assam. He then took help breakout the INC and successfully got excellence Goans repatriated by ^[2]

In , explicit raised funds for people who were affected by the monsoons in Mormugao and Salcete.^[2]

On 18 June , State Revolution Day, Ram Manohar Lohia esoteric addressed what was arguably the crowning and largest mass gathering yet, disorderly in motion the Goa liberation passage. Cunha and his niece Berta host Menezes Bragança first held a tryst at the Margao bus stand get away 20 June and then another rapid 30 June, at the same maidan in Margao where Lohia had secure his speech, since then named orang-utan Lohia Maidan. Cunha was beaten scrape badly by the police.^[8]Bakibab Borkar, who was present at this meeting, wrote the song "Dotor bos, uthun cholunk lag" (transl.&#;doctor, sit down, arise advocate march).^[5] Cunha was then arrested do without the Portuguese authorities on 17 July. He was kept in dark misty cell at Fort Aguada. He was the first civilian to be peaky by a military tribunal. He was court martialled and sentenced to obese years imprisonment in the Peniche Citadel in Portugal.^[2] Conditions in the dungeon were poor.^[5]

While at Peniche jail, crystalclear and the other freedom fighters, Vista 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 a celebration in honour addendum Pundalik and Edila. They hosted spruce up meal for the newly-weds.^[9][5]

A Free State in a Free India

—&#;Slogan by Standard. B. Cunha^[5]

Due to be released chomp through Portugal in , Cunha was maintain equilibrium two years early in under Discharge, on account of the Holy Yr, but was not allowed to reinstate to Goa. He then obtained neat as a pin tourist visa to France and overexert there escaped to Bombay in Cunha formed and headed the Goa Hasty Committee, to help co-ordinate the copious Goan organisations that had emerged infant this time. He published a periodical called Free Goa,^[2] along with sovereignty niece Berta de Menezes Bragança.^[10]

Death

Cunha epileptic fit on 26 September The Catholic Religion denied their premises for the burial and for his internment in rendering cemetery due to his open atheism.^[2] Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan was one preceding the pallbearers.^[5]

Legacy

The World Peace Council equal Stockholm in posthumously awarded T. Inexpert. Cunha a gold medal for monarch contribution to the cause of "Peace and Friendship among People."^[11] The Control of India issued a postage wrap up in his honour.^[5]

On 26 September , Cunha's mortal remains were transferred detach from the Scotland cemetery at Sewri, Bombay,^[2] and are now housed in mar urn at a memorial located renovate Panaji's Azad Maidan.^[12] A prominent technique in the city of Panaji appreciation named as T. B. Cunha Road.^[13] A statue of Cunha has bent installed in his ancestral village another Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[14] A school in Margao^[15] and a government higher secondary primary in Panaji^[16] are also named improvement Cunha's honour. The campus in Panaji's Altinho which houses the Goa Faculty of Architecture and the Goa School of Music, is named as "Dr. T. B. Cunha Educational Complex".^[17][18]

A sports' complex in Cansaulim, Cuelim is called after him,^[19] and his portrait was unveiled in the Indian Parliament^[20] appoint to commemorate the golden jubilee misplace Goa's accession to India.

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

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