The Rebellion in a 19th-century Indo-Portuguese Novel *

A doctor, a publicist, an author of works on economic and historical subjects in Portuguese as well as in French, Francisco Luiz Gomes (1829–69) is regarded as the prototype of the 19th-century Goan intellectual. A staunch upholder of Liberalism and Catholicism, he was elected as a member of the Portuguese parliament at the age of thirty. His unique and only incursion into the realm of literature, Os Brahamanes, published in Lisbon in 1866 by Typographia da Gazeta de Portugal, is the first novel of Indo-Portuguese literature. ¹