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  Insights into Colonial Goa   Why and how did Colonial Britain recruit Goans?? History undoubtedly belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present generation. In 2020 (pre-Brexit), the British print media published derogatory articles which portrayed Goans as opportunists who abused the EU immigration system by making a backdoor entry into the UK via Portugal. This scenario raises the interesting questions of why and how Goans became familiar with the British and vice versa. The following are abstracts from our recently published book, Insights into Colonial Goa, which traces Goan emigration to British India, the Mid-East and Africa. In 1510, Goa was the first Asian territory to become a European colony. Following that, Portugal acquired several enclaves along the coasts of the Indian Ocean (East Africa, Mid-East and India) and around the South China Sea (South-East Asia). Portugal controlled the lucrative Silk Lane maritime trade of Asian spices to...

  Happy Valley set ( act.   1924–1941 ) Richard Davenport-Hines https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/101230 Published online:  19 May 2011 Happy Valley set ( act.   1924–1941 ), was the sobriquet of fast-living English upper-class settlers in Kenya's Wanjohi valley who were notorious for adultery, alcoholism, and violence. The sexual diversions of the Wanjohi valley led to it being known as Happy Valley and prompted the joke question, 'Are you married, or do you live in Kenya?' ( Carberry , 156 ). The Happy Valley escapists were no more representative of colonial Kenya than the ‘bright young people’ were of inter-war England. The set's heyday ran from 1924, when two of its most notorious members,  Josslyn Hay,  twenty-second earl of Erroll , and his first wife,  Lady (Myra) Idina Sackville (1893–1955) , daughter of the  eighth Earl De La Warr , settled in the Wanjohi valley. It petered out in 1941 after  Erroll's  murder, and the suicides of...