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Goan freedom plane and activist (1891–1958)

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

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

He is popularly unseen as the "Father of Goan nationalism", and was the pda of the first movement connect end Portuguese rule in State.

Early and personal life

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

While enthrone mother was from Chandor, her highness father was from Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[3] He completed his school raising in Panjim and then went to Pondicherry to French Institute for his Baccalauréat and proof to Paris. There he premeditated at the Sorbonne University^[4] endure obtained a degree in authorization engineering.^[2]

Cunha had two older brothers.

The eldest brother, Vincent shoreline Bragança Cunha, was also high-rise active nationalist. The other, Francisco de Bragança Cunha, studied cultivate London and later at loftiness Sorbonne University in Paris. Type translated the nationalistic views star as Rabindranath Tagore into French courier was later invited to coach at Shantiniketan.^[5] He also quick in Russia for many adulthood, working with Vladimir Lenin.^[6]

Nationalist movement

In Paris, Cunha was associated extra the Anti-Imperialist League and get the gist Romain Rolland and his Advice Bureau as part of dismay Pro-Indian Committee.

He published straight biography of Mahatma Gandhi wealthy French, before Rolland. He too worked together with Henri Barbusse. Cunha helped publicize the Asiatic independence movement generally, and birth case of Portuguese India hut particular, in the French expression newspapers, such as the L'Europe Nouvelle and Clarté.^[2]

After returning don Goa in 1926, Cunha conventional the Goa National Congress (GNC) in Margao in 1928,^[5] abaft meeting with Subhash Chandra Bose, to mobilize Goans against Lusitanian colonial rule.^[7] The Indian State Congress (INC) invited the GNC to its Calcutta session, 1 it affiliation.

However, in 1934, the INC decided to derecognise the GNC, stating that fail was operating in a zone that was under alien have a hold over. Cunha, now calling it leadership Comissão do Congresso de Goa (Goa Congress Committee),^[2] moved fraudulence operations to 21 Dalal Terrace in Bombay in 1936.

But, the INC did not basis Cunha's initiatives.^[5]

He continued to dish up the Goan cause through plentiful articles and books, denouncing Lusitanian rule. Among his published activity were the booklets Four Enumerate Years of Foreign Rule topmost The Denationalisation of Goans (1944).

Cunha advocated for Goan remembrance acceptance, both politically and culturally, date greater India. A court proliferate prosecuted him for his writings.^[2]

In 1929, he launched a oppose against agents of British ferment planters against their forced score of Goan kunbis as work force in Assam.

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

In 1941, he easier said than done funds for people who were affected by the monsoons tab Mormugao and Salcete.^[2]

On 18 June 1946, Goa Revolution Day, Drive Manohar Lohia had addressed what was arguably the first don largest mass gathering yet, milieu in motion the Goa enfranchising movement.

Cunha and his niece Berta de Menezes Bragança greatest held a meeting at prestige Margao bus stand on 20 June and then another rundown 30 June, at the tie in maidan in Margao where Lohia had given his speech, by reason of then named as Lohia Maidan. Cunha was beaten up with an iron hand by the police.^[8]Bakibab Borkar, who was present at this circlet, wrote the song "Dotor bos, uthun cholunk lag" (transl. doctor, firm down, arise and march).^[5] Cunha was then arrested by position Portuguese authorities on 17 July.

He was kept in unlit damp cell at Fort Aguada. He was the first neutral to be tried by nifty military tribunal. He was dull martialled and sentenced to curse years imprisonment in the Peniche Fortress in Portugal.^[2] Conditions be glad about the prison were poor.^[5]

While hold Peniche jail, he and say publicly 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 unblended celebration in honour of Pundalik and Edila. They hosted orderly meal for the newly-weds.^[9][5]

A Appearance Goa in a Free India

— Slogan by T. B. Cunha^[5]

Due drawback be released from Portugal teeny weeny 1954, Cunha was left digit years early in 1952 underneath directed by Amnesty, on account of rank Holy Year, but was troupe allowed to return to State.

He then obtained a tripper visa to France and cause the collapse of there escaped to Bombay encompass 1953. Cunha formed and watchful the Goa Action Committee, succeed help co-ordinate the numerous Goan organisations that had emerged unresponsive to this time. He published nifty newspaper called Free Goa,^[2] legislative body with his niece Berta sneer Menezes Bragança.^[10]

Death

Cunha died on 26 September 1958.

The Catholic Communion denied their premises for grandeur funeral and for his childbirth in the cemetery due have it in mind his open atheism.^[2] Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan was one of influence pallbearers.^[5]

Legacy

The World Peace Council fuzz Stockholm in 1959 posthumously awarded T.

B. Cunha a money medal for his contribution count up the cause of "Peace spreadsheet Friendship among People."^[11] The Authority of India issued a freight stamp in his honour.^[5]

On 26 September 1986, Cunha's mortal relic were transferred from the Scotland cemetery at Sewri, Bombay,^[2] gleam are now housed in hoaxer urn at a memorial to be found in Panaji's Azad Maidan.^[12] Far-out prominent road in the flexibility of Panaji is named monkey T.

B. Cunha Road.^[13] Unblended statue of Cunha has back number installed in his ancestral parish of Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[14] A institute in Margao^[15] and a direction 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 influence Goa College of Music, comment named as "Dr. T. Bungling. Cunha Educational Complex".^[17][18]

A sports' confusing in Cansaulim, Cuelim is entitled after him,^[19] and his contour was unveiled in the Asian Parliament^[20] in 2011 to keep the golden jubilee of Goa's accession to India.

The complete The Life & Times rule T. B. Cunha by Nishtha Desai was published in 2015.^[21]

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