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| birth_name = Inocencio Antonio Mariano De Sousa
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1879|07|26}}
| birth_place = Bombay, India
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| occupation = Better known as a poet. Worked for the Indian Post in Bombay (Now Mumbai), later Poona and was finally posted as a Dy. Postmaster General Belgaum, just before he retired.
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'''Innocent Sousa''' (1879-1962) was a [[Bombay]]-based poet and writer of [[Goan]] origin, who wrote in the [[English language]] and got his work published in the early 20th century. He is mentioned in ''The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry: 1828-1965''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gokak|first1=Vinayak Krishna|title=The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry ; 1828-1965 (English)|date=2006|publisher=Sahitya Academy|pages=350–351}}</ref> and listed, early on among Indian writers in English, in the books-received section of the 1912-founded ''Poetry'' journal.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Books Received|jstor=20577300|publisher=Poetry Foundation (via Jstor)}}</ref>

==Current recognition==
A hundred years later, mention of his work can still be found in cyberspace, though the actual texts are not easily accessible. The poet has also not been adequately understood in his own home-state of Goa.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Noronha|first1=Frederick|title=How Many Goans Does It Take....|url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/how-many-goans-does-it-take/|work=[[The Navhind Times]]|accessdate=5 March 2017}}</ref>

==Both prose and poetry==

Innocent Sousa has been listed under both the prose as well as the poetry sections in a study conducted by the University Libraries [[University of Washington]] Research Guide<ref>{{cite web|title=Research Guide on South Asia. Pre-Independence Period.|url=http://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341864&p=2301845|website=University Libraries|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=1 March 2017}}</ref> on [[South Asian]] [[literature]] in [[English language|English]] for the [[Pre-Independence]] period.. This was undertaken initially compiled by [[Irene Joshi]].

==In global listing==

Sousa is said to have been listed among the top 500 living poets of the world in a book published by [[Mitre Press]], [[London]] in 1932, titled ''Principal Poets of the World Volume I [1] 1930-31''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sousa|first1=Joseph|title=Online posting in the Goa Book Club|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/goa-book-club/3vrlCGYQmhQ|website=goa-book-club on Googlegroups|publisher=Goa Book Club|accessdate=5 March 2017}}</ref>

==Other publications==

His other publications include:

* ''Radha: a romance, and other Indian tales''. Bombay: Taraporevala, 1904. 113 p.;
* ''Radha, a Hindu belle''. Bombay: New Book Co., 1939. 151 p.; Rev. ed. of ''Radha, a romance''.
* ''The Clarks, and other post office tales''. Bombay: n.p., 1923.
* ''Uncle Roland: or looking for a wife''. Bombay: Taraporevala, 1906. 156 p.
* ''Beautiful Bombay and other story poems''. Bombay: New Book Co., 1938. 56 p.
* ''The maid of the hill''. London: A.H. Stockwell, 1929.
* ''The Fascination of the Dance, and Other Tales''. Bombay: Taraporewala
* ''A Guide to Goa, with a brief history of Goa, and the Life of St. Francis Xavier''. Bombay: Hosang T. Anklesaria.
* ''Twixt Night and Morn''. London: Drane, London
* Included in anthologies: ''The Spring Anthology'', 1930 (The Mitre Press).

==Work mentioned==
Five of Innocent Sousa's books are mentioned on amazon.co.uk, but with the mention that the books "are not currently available".<ref>{{cite web|title=5 results for "innocent sousa"|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=innocent+sousa|website=amazon.co.uk|publisher=Amazon-UK|accessdate=1 March 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do;jsessionid=DE53E944A96AB1BD52B6D59687670CBE?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=CP71105486480001451&indx=1&recIds=CP71105486480001451&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&query=any%2Ccontains%2CInnocent+Sousa&search_scope=uw_summit&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28E-UW%29%2Cscope%3A%28P%29%2Cscope%3A%28P-UW%29&onCampus=true&vid=UW&institution=UW&highlight=true&tab=default_tab&displayField=all&vl(freeText0)=Innocent%20Sousa&group=GUEST&vl(1032993212UI0)=any&dstmp=1488333021260 Online links to work.]

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