Defensa dos direitos das Gão-Carias, Gão-Cares, e dos seus previlegios, contra a proposta de sua dissolução de divisão das suas terras. Offerecida ao xmº Governo Geral do Estado da India, por ....

Nova Goa, Na Imprensa Nacional, 1856.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, stitched, with contemporary blue-grey plain rear wrapper (front wrapper gone) Typographical mustaches on title page. Very good condition. xvi, 112, 104 pp. *** FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. According to Innocencio, at least 17 pamphlets were published on the question of whether or not the communities of Gão-cares, Goan village chiefs, should be dissolved, and their property distributed. Xavier's defense of the traditional laws, privileges, and rights of the Gão-cares was violently opposed by Joaquim Bernadino Catão da Costa and Francisco Luis Gomes. The introduction to this work includes a list of public offices held by the author, along with a list of his publications. The final section, beginning with the caption title "Capa—OO—" contains documents supporting the author's conclusions.Filippe Nery Xavier (1804-1875), historian, archeologist, and exemplary public functionary thoughout his adult life, a native of Loutulim in the concelho de Salsete, was director of the Imprensa Nacional in Goa from 1851. One of Goa's best historians, he published Bosquejo histórico das comunidades das aldeias dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salcete e Bardez, 1852, and Nobiliarchia goana, 1862-63, the enormously popular Resumo histórico da maravilhosa vida, conversões e milagres de S. Francisco Xavier, 1859, and many other works.*** Innocêncio II, 303; IX, 231-32. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, III, 353; for biographical and bibliographical information concerning Nery Xavier, see pp. 348-56. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India, FA31. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2849.Catalogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (India Portugueza) (1907), p. 235. Not located in Porbase. Jisc cites British Library only (two hard copies, one online). NUC: DLC, CtY.