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[[File:Tristão de Bragança Cunha 1998 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|Tristão de Bragança Cunha on a 1998 stamp of India]]
'''Tristão de Bragança Cunha''' (2 April 1891 – 26 September 1958), alternatively spelled as '''Tristao de Braganza Cunha''', was a prominent Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist from [[Goa]] (then part of [[Portuguese India]]). He is popularly known as the "Father of [[Goan liberation movement|Goan nationalism]]", and was the organiser of the first movement to end [[Portuguese India|Portuguese rule]] in Goa.

==Biography==
Cunha was born on 2 April 1891 in the village [[Chandor]] in Goa. He hailed from Cuelim, Cansaulim. He completed his school education in [[Panjim]] and then went to [[Pondicherry]] to French College for his B.A. and then to Paris. There he studied at the [[Sorbonne University]]<ref>[http://www.navhindtimes.in/francophilic-goas-french-connections/ Francophilic Goa’s French Connections]. ''[[The Navhind Times]]'' (2016-01-25). Retrieved on 2018-11-28.</ref> and obtained a degree in electrical engineering. In Paris, Cunha entered the circle of [[Romain Rolland]] and helped publicise the [[Indian independence movement]] generally, and the case of [[Portuguese India]] in particular, in the French-language press.

Cunha returned to Goa in 1926 and he set up the ''Comissão do Congresso de Goa'' (Goa Congress Committee) in Goa in 1928 to organise the Goan intelligentsia against Portuguese colonial rule. Pressured by Portuguese authorities, Cunha transferred operations to Bombay and in 1938, affiliated his organisation with the [[Indian National Congress]]. He continued publicising the Goan case in a stream of articles and books, denouncing Portuguese rule. Among his publications were booklets ''Four Hundred Years of Foreign Rule'' and ''The Denationalisation of Goans'' (1944). Cunha was an advocate of Goan identification, political as well as cultural, with greater India.

In 1946, Cunha could not be contacted in those good old days. Communication was poor, to say the least. T B Cunha came to know about the "unrest" in Margao and came to the city the next day. Ram Manohar Lohia had addressed what was arguably the first and largest mass gathering yet, setting in motion the [[Goa liberation movement]] on the previous day. Cunha was arrested by the Portuguese authorities. He was kept in dark damp cell at [[Fort Aguada]]. He was the first civilian to be tried by a military tribunal. He was court martialled and sentenced to eight years imprisonment. He was deported to the [[Peniche Fortress]] in [[Portugal]].

After his release from Portugal in 1954, Cunha returned to [[Bombay]]. Cunha formed and headed the Goa Action Committee, to help co-ordinate the numerous Goan organisations that had emerged by this time. He published a newspaper called "Free Goa".

He died on 26 September 1958, Loknayak [[Jaiprakash Narayan]] was one of the pallbearers. The [[Government of India]] issued a postage stamp in his honour.

==Legacy==
The [[World Peace Council]] at Stockholm in 1959 posthumously awarded T. B. Cunha a gold medal for his contribution to the cause of "Peace and Friendship among People."<ref>[http://www.navhindtimes.in/t-b-cunha-life-in-picture/ T B Cunha: Life in picture]. ''The Navhind Times'' (June 14, 2015). Retrieved on 2018-11-28.</ref>

Cunha's mortal remains are housed in an urn at a memorial located in [[Panaji]]'s Azad Maidan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/happening-in-goa/articleshow/41890164.cms |title=Happening in Goa |work=The Times of India |date= 7 September 2014|accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref> A prominent road in the city of [[Panaji]] is named as "T. B. Cunha Road".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goachamber.org/html/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=2&Itemid=109 |title=Contact us |publisher=Goachamber.org |date= |accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref> A statue of Cunha has been installed in his ancestral village of Cuelim, Cansaulim.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150710065434/http://www.anftrustgoa.org/?page_id=10429 Wonderful Village of Cansaulim]. ANF Trust Goa</ref> A school in [[Margao]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Is-T-B-Cunha-school-safe/articleshow/39319518.cms |title=Is T B Cunha school safe? |work=The Times of India |date=31 July 2014 |accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref> and a government higher secondary school in [[Panaji]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Doctor-T-B-Cunha-Government-High-Secondary-School-Panaji-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%9C-Goa-review-puturmsnmn |title=Doctor T B Cunha Government High Secondary School |publisher=MouthShut.com |date=16 April 2011 |accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref> are also named in Cunha's honour. The campus in [[Panaji]]'s Altinho which houses the Goa College of Architecture and the Goa College of Music, is named as "Dr. T. B. Cunha Educational Complex".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unigoa.ac.in/affiliate_display.php?afid=41 |title=Goa University Post Graduation, PH.D, B.SC, M.SC, Research Facilities Study India programme |publisher=Unigoa.ac.in |date= |accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unigoa.ac.in/affiliate_display.php?afid=24 |title=Goa University Post Graduation, PH.D, B.SC, M.SC, Research Facilities Study India programme |publisher=Unigoa.ac.in |date= |accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref>

A sports' complex in Cansaulim, Cuelim is named after him,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/On-this-stadium-it-is-a-different-ball-game-/79633.html |title=On this stadium, it is a different ball game |publisher=The Herald |date=12 October 2014 |accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref> and his portrait was unveiled in the [[Indian Parliament]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/t-b-cunha-s-portrait-unveiled-parliament/ |title=T B Cunha's portrait unveiled in Parliament |work=The Navhind Times |date=15 March 2010 |accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref> in 2011 to commemorate the golden jubilee of Goa's accession to India.

The book ''The Life & Times of T. B. Cunha'' by Nishta Desai was published in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Release-of-the-book-Life-and-Times-of-T-B-Cunha/89918.html |title=Release of the book, Life and Times of T. B. Cunha |work=The Herald |date= 19 June 2015|accessdate=2017-02-08}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090923182300/http://www.goacom.com/culture/biographies/tristao.html Tristao de Braganza Cunha, 1891 ~ 1958 – Father of Goan Nationalism], GOACOM, GOACOM Biography Series
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081011090115/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2406/stories/20070406000506500.htm House of Chandor]

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