Review of TMT files as resourceful primary sources for revisiting the history of Goan liberation movement

Abstract

The present paper explores the resourcefulness of the TMT files preserved at the Goa Archives for the reconstruction of the history of Goan liberation movement and the Colonial Government's response to it. History of Goan Liberation Movement and it's parallels with the Indian Independence Movement, history of Goan freedom fighters from the basic details like their native village to the more significant information such as their ideological leanings, political affiliations, their contribution towards the Goan liberation movement, the working of various wings of Colonial Government, administrative, judicial and police etc., that were active and profuse in the suppression of the movement for longer time, and the conditions of the subaltern natives under the Portuguese colonial rule are some of the many aspects of colonial history of Goa that can be re-viewed and reconstructed with the help of the TMT files.