Paper short abstract:

Independent journalists among native goans in colonial times were rare. From the early 20th century something began to change on the local newspapers. Critics against colonial regime begins to arrive at Lisbon. Seeds of democratization and free thought were arriving from Goa.

Paper long abstract:

The problem of colonial subalternity implied cultural, religious and political European superiority, although such social condition some courageous native journalists tried to do something against such suffocate domination publishing their own newspapers. One of them, known as the Tilak of Goa often wrote to wake up his contemporaries encouraging them to think and to express their own ideas about Goa political situation. His writes informed goans about the situation of his neighbors [Indian national movements] during the Gandhi action and at the same time he fomented the born of goan autonomy movement. Seeds of a nationalism sentiment. On his burning writes fight for a scholar education reform against the colonial government and contested the constitutional principle of cults liberty, oppression liberty, self-determination, liberty of speech, in a word for democratization. His social conditions has not influenced his journalist career. The political instability occurred in Portugal between 1910 and 1926 had a great influence in this journalism and produced a great transformation in his thinking and activism. The demonstration of a kind of openness and decentralization from the republican govern it was seen by Goa as a self-government. It obvious that his thoughts are synonym of opposition to colonial regime, political and religious, but also to cultural impositions of the caste-system and political restrictions of State censorship.