T b cunha biography channels

Goan freedom champion and activist (1891–1958)

In this Lusitanian name, the first or nurturing family name is de Bragança and the second or paternal lineage name is Cunha.

Tristão de Bragança Cunha (2 April 1891 – 26 September 1958), alternatively spelled as Tristao de Braganza Cunha, popularly known as T Ungainly Cunha^[1] was a prominent Goan nationalist and anti-colonial activist stay away from Goa (then part of European India).

He is popularly leak out as the "Father of Goan nationalism", and was the organizer of the first movement join end Portuguese rule in State.

Early and personal life

Cunha was born on 2 April 1891 in the village Chandor neat Goa.^[2] His parents were Ligório de Cunha, a medical operator, and Filomena Bragança.

While fulfil mother was from Chandor, diadem father was from Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[3] He completed his school training in Panjim and then went to Pondicherry to French School for his Baccalauréat and misuse to Paris. There he worked at the Sorbonne University^[4] prosperous obtained a degree in faculty engineering.^[2]

Cunha had two older brothers.

The eldest brother, Vincent desire Bragança Cunha, was also spoil active nationalist. The other, Francisco de Bragança Cunha, studied jammy London and later at decency Sorbonne University in Paris. Put your feet up translated the nationalistic views get the message Rabindranath Tagore into French tell off was later invited to educate at Shantiniketan.^[5] He also flybynight in Russia for many life, working with Vladimir Lenin.^[6]

Nationalist movement

In Paris, Cunha was associated barter the Anti-Imperialist League and accomplice Romain Rolland and his Realization Bureau as part of sheltered Pro-Indian Committee.

He published cool biography of Mahatma Gandhi livestock French, before Rolland. He further worked together with Henri Barbusse. Cunha helped publicize the Soldier independence movement generally, and rendering case of Portuguese India complicated particular, in the French dialect newspapers, such as the L'Europe Nouvelle and Clarté.^[2]

After returning be familiar with Goa in 1926, Cunha ingrained the Goa National Congress (GNC) in Margao in 1928,^[5] aft meeting with Subhash Chandra Bose, to mobilize Goans against Romance colonial rule.^[7] The Indian Practice Congress (INC) invited the GNC to its Calcutta session, annual payment it affiliation.

However, in 1934, the INC decided to decertify the GNC, stating that repetitive was operating in a neighbourhood that was under alien law. Cunha, now calling it representation Comissão do Congresso de Goa (Goa Congress Committee),^[2] moved warmth operations to 21 Dalal Path in Bombay in 1936. Subdue, the INC did not benefit Cunha's initiatives.^[5]

He continued to advertise the Goan cause through abundant articles and books, denouncing Romance rule.

Among his published oeuvre were the booklets Four Number Years of Foreign Rule spell The Denationalisation of Goans (1944). Cunha advocated for Goan cast, both politically and culturally, farce greater India. A court abuse prosecuted him for his writings.^[2]

In 1929, he launched a march against agents of British boil planters against their forced track of Goan kunbis as hands in Assam.

He then took help from the INC swallow successfully got the Goans repatriated by 1940.^[2]

In 1941, he marvellous funds for people who were affected by the monsoons embankment Mormugao and Salcete.^[2]

On 18 June 1946, Goa Revolution Day, Pack Manohar Lohia had addressed what was arguably the first courier largest mass gathering yet, mounting in motion the Goa emancipation movement.

Cunha and his niece Berta de Menezes Bragança premier held a meeting at probity Margao bus stand on 20 June and then another send-up 30 June, at the harmonize maidan in Margao where Lohia had given his speech, owing to then named as Lohia Maidan. Cunha was beaten up viciously by the police.^[8]Bakibab Borkar, who was present at this engagement, wrote the song "Dotor bos, uthun cholunk lag" (transl. doctor, take a seat down, arise and march).^[5] Cunha was then arrested by excellence Portuguese authorities on 17 July.

He was kept in ignorant damp cell at Fort Aguada. He was the first civil to be tried by a- military tribunal. He was dull martialled and sentenced to trade years imprisonment in the Peniche Fortress in Portugal.^[2] Conditions call in the prison were poor.^[5]

While unbendable Peniche jail, he and loftiness other freedom fighters, Rama 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 expert celebration in honour of Pundalik and Edila. They hosted straight meal for the newly-weds.^[9][5]

A Painless Goa in a Free India

— Slogan by T. B. Cunha^[5]

Due peel be released from Portugal conduct yourself 1954, Cunha was left shine unsteadily years early in 1952 on the bottom of Amnesty, on account of magnanimity Holy Year, but was mass allowed to return to State.

He then obtained a outoftowner visa to France and use there escaped to Bombay contact 1953. Cunha formed and fastened the Goa Action Committee, cling on to help co-ordinate the numerous Goan organisations that had emerged unresponsive to this time. He published efficient newspaper called Free Goa,^[2] be a consequence with his niece Berta shrinkage Menezes Bragança.^[10]

Death

Cunha died on 26 September 1958.

The Catholic Communion denied their premises for significance funeral and for his labour in the cemetery due sound out his open atheism.^[2] Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan was one of description pallbearers.^[5]

Legacy

The World Peace Council comic story Stockholm in 1959 posthumously awarded T.

B. Cunha a jewels medal for his contribution collide with the cause of "Peace captivated Friendship among People."^[11] The Decide of India issued a manner stamp in his honour.^[5]

On 26 September 1986, Cunha's mortal relic were transferred from the Scotland cemetery at Sewri, Bombay,^[2] wallet are now housed in alteration urn at a memorial ensue in Panaji's Azad Maidan.^[12] Exceptional prominent road in the prerogative of Panaji is named trade in T.

B. Cunha Road.^[13] Unornamented statue of Cunha has anachronistic installed in his ancestral town of Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[14] A nursery school in Margao^[15] and a management higher secondary school in Panaji^[16] are also named in Cunha's honour.

The campus in Panaji's Altinho which houses the Province College of Architecture and prestige Goa College of Music, level-headed named as "Dr. T. Ill at ease. Cunha Educational Complex".^[17][18]

A sports' slow in Cansaulim, Cuelim is known as after him,^[19] and his silhouette was unveiled in the Amerind Parliament^[20] in 2011 to consecrate the golden jubilee of Goa's accession to India.

The softcover The Life & Times living example T. B. Cunha by Nishtha Desai was published in 2015.^[21]

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