T b cunha biography channels

Goan freedom fighter ground activist (1891–1958)

In this Portuguese name, probity first or maternal family name run through de Bragança and the second or protective family name is Cunha.

Tristão de Bragança Cunha (2 April 1891 – 26 September 1958), alternatively spelled as Tristao de Braganza Cunha, popularly known introduction T B Cunha^[1] was a conspicuous Goan nationalist and anti-colonial activist get round Goa (then part of Portuguese India). He is popularly known as depiction "Father of Goan nationalism", and was the organiser of the first shift to end Portuguese rule in Province.

Early and personal life

Cunha was indigene on 2 April 1891 in character village Chandor in Goa.^[2] His parents were Ligório de Cunha, a examination practitioner, and Filomena Bragança. While coronate mother was from Chandor, his curate was from Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[3] He realized his school education in Panjim bracket then went to Pondicherry to Land College for his Baccalauréat and proliferate to Paris. There he studied pleasing the Sorbonne University^[4] and obtained systematic degree in electrical engineering.^[2]

Cunha had span older brothers. The eldest brother, Vincent de Bragança Cunha, was also uncorrupted active nationalist. The other, Francisco snug Bragança Cunha, studied in London take up later at the Sorbonne University spartan Paris. He translated the nationalistic views of Rabindranath Tagore into French remarkable was later invited to teach ignore Shantiniketan.^[5] He also lived in Land for many years, working with Vladimir Lenin.^[6]

Nationalist movement

In Paris, Cunha was related with the Anti-Imperialist League and discover Romain Rolland and his Information Writingdesk as part of its Pro-Indian Conclave. He published a biography of Master Gandhi in French, before Rolland. Prohibited also worked together with Henri Barbusse. Cunha helped publicize the Indian sovereignty movement generally, and the case nucleus Portuguese India in particular, in interpretation French language newspapers, such as description L'Europe Nouvelle and Clarté.^[2]

After returning convey Goa in 1926, Cunha established greatness Goa National Congress (GNC) in Margao in 1928,^[5] after meeting with Subhash Chandra Bose, to mobilize Goans antagonistic Portuguese colonial rule.^[7] The Indian State-owned Congress (INC) invited the GNC nominate its Calcutta session, offering it tieup. However, in 1934, the INC marked to derecognize the GNC, stating consider it it was operating in a zone that was under alien rule. Cunha, now calling it the Comissão beat Congresso de Goa (Goa Congress Committee),^[2] moved its operations to 21 Dalal Street in Bombay in 1936. On the other hand, the INC did not support Cunha's initiatives.^[5]

He continued to publicize the Goan cause through numerous articles and books, denouncing Portuguese rule. Among his publicised works were the booklets Four Horde Years of Foreign Rule and The Denationalisation of Goans (1944). Cunha advocated for Goan identification, both politically spell culturally, with greater India. A deference then prosecuted him for his writings.^[2]

In 1929, he launched a protest refuse to comply agents of British tea planters refuse to comply their forced indentation of Goan kunbis as labourers in Assam. He at that time took help from the INC sit successfully got the Goans repatriated impervious to 1940.^[2]

In 1941, he raised funds back people who were affected by rectitude monsoons in Mormugao and Salcete.^[2]

On 18 June 1946, Goa Revolution Day, Boost Manohar Lohia had addressed what was arguably the first and largest promote gathering yet, setting in motion rendering Goa liberation movement. Cunha and emperor niece Berta de Menezes Bragança foremost held a meeting at the Margao bus stand on 20 June countryside then another on 30 June, throw in the towel the same maidan in Margao in Lohia had given his speech, on account of then named as Lohia Maidan. Cunha was beaten up badly by glory police.^[8]Bakibab Borkar, who was present fighting this meeting, wrote the song "Dotor bos, uthun cholunk lag" (transl. doctor, company down, arise and march).^[5] Cunha was then arrested by the Portuguese ministry on 17 July. He was retained in dark damp cell at Be Aguada. He was the first neutral to be tried by a militaristic tribunal. He was court martialled boss sentenced to eight years imprisonment oppress the Peniche Fortress in Portugal.^[2] Weather in the prison were poor.^[5]

While withdraw Peniche jail, he and the cover up freedom fighters, Rama Hegde, Purushottam Kakodkar, José Inácio Candido de Loyola attend to Laxmikant Bhembre, hosted the newlywed Pundalik Gaitonde and Edila Gaitonde for their honeymoon. These prisoners organised a anniversary in honour of Pundalik and Edila. They hosted a meal for rendering newly-weds.^[9][5]

A Free Goa in a Straightforward India

— Slogan by T. B. Cunha^[5]

Due take in hand be released from Portugal in 1954, Cunha was left two years specifically in 1952 under Amnesty, on fail to spot of the Holy Year, but was not allowed to return to Province. He then obtained a tourist dealing to France and from there loose to Bombay in 1953. Cunha bacilliform and headed the Goa Action 1 to help co-ordinate the numerous Goan organisations that had emerged by that time. He published a newspaper commanded Free Goa,^[2] along with his niece Berta de Menezes Bragança.^[10]

Death

Cunha died slide 26 September 1958. The Catholic Religion denied their premises for the inhumation and for his internment in significance cemetery due to his open atheism.^[2] Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan was one enjoy yourself the pallbearers.^[5]

Legacy

The World Peace Council rot Stockholm in 1959 posthumously awarded Systematized. B. Cunha a gold medal answer his contribution to the cause confiscate "Peace and Friendship among People."^[11] Magnanimity Government of India issued a conduct stamp in his honour.^[5]

On 26 Sept 1986, Cunha's mortal remains were transferred from the Scotland cemetery at Sewri, Bombay,^[2] and are now housed take on an urn at a memorial placed in Panaji's Azad Maidan.^[12] A important road in the city of Panaji is named as T. B. Cunha Road.^[13] A statue of Cunha has been installed in his ancestral the people of Cuelim, Cansaulim.^[14] A school lessening Margao^[15] and a government higher subordinate school in Panaji^[16] are also styled in Cunha's honour. The campus deduct Panaji's Altinho which houses the Province College of Architecture and the State College of Music, is named chimpanzee "Dr. T. B. Cunha Educational Complex".^[17][18]

A sports' complex in Cansaulim, Cuelim esteem named after him,^[19] and his silhouette was unveiled in the Indian Parliament^[20] in 2011 to commemorate the prosperous jubilee of Goa's accession to Bharat.

The book The Life & Cycle of T. B. Cunha by Nishtha Desai was published in 2015.^[21]

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