The Goa Inquisition
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The Goa Inquisition, Being a Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India is a book published by
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Part I
The book is divided into two parts. Part I, titled "The Goa Inquisition", is divided into ten chapters. The first two chapters detail the
Chapter 3 begins with the advent of the Inquisition in India, with a discussion of the French spy Dellon's account of the inquisition in Chapter 4. The successive chapters describe the wars that led to the establishment of Portuguese rule in Goa, and the alleged massacre of Hindus during the Portuguese conquest of Goa in 1510. However, various sources claim that only Bijapur Muslims were killed during the conquest, by both the Portuguese led by Afonso de Albuquerque and the local Hindus led by Timoji.[2][3][4]
Successive chapters in Part I also describe the forced conversion of
The book also discusses the various methods of torture used by the Inquisition, such as burning by sulphur, water-torture, rape, the use of pulleys to stretch victims and the "strappado" method of torture. The study of Agostino Borromeo from the University of La Sapienza in Roma into the Vatican archives and the subsequent 783-page report[6] denies the allegations made in the book.
Part II
Part II discusses the accounts of the Inquisition given by Dellon[7] and Buchanan[8] in two separate chapters. Priolkar cites Buchanan as an authoritative source, although Buchanan's work was a Protestant polemic written in the 19th century that denounced Catholicism in Goa and it did not use any historical records.[citation needed]
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- ISBN 978-90-04-09971-5
- ^ Roger Crowley (2015). "19". Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire. Faber and Faber.
For four days without any pause our men have slaughtered…wherever we have been able to get into we haven't spared the life of a single Muslim. We have herded them into the mosques and set them on fire. I have ordered that neither the [Hindu] peasants nor the Brahmans should be killed. We have estimated the number of dead Muslim men and women at six thousand.
- ^ Bulhão Pato, R.A.; Lopes Mendonça, H. (1884). Cartas de Afonso de Albuquerque seguidas de documentos que as elucidam. Vol. 1. Lisbon. p. 26.
Allgums gentios homens principaes, a que os turquos tem tomado suas terras, sabendo a destruição de gooa, decérão da sera onde estam Recolhidos, e vieram em mynha ajudaa e tomarão os passos e camynhos, e todolos mouros que escaparam de goa trouxeram á espada, e nom deram vida a viva creatura.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ de Oliveira e Costa, João Paulo; Rodrigues, Vítor Luís Gaspar (2008). Campanhas de Afonso de Albuquerque: Conquista de Goa, 1510–1512. Lisbon: Tribuna da História. pp. 55–56.
- ^ Délio de Mendonça (1958). Conversions and Citizenry : Goa under Portugal, 1510-1610.
- ^ Agostino Borromeo (2003). L' inquisizione : atti del simposio internazionale: Città del Vaticano, 29-31 ottobre 1998. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
- ^ Dellon, G.; Amiel, C.; Lima, A. (1997). L'Inquisition de Goa: la relation de Charles Dellon (1687). Editions Chandeigne.
- ^ Claudius Buchanan (1811). Christian Researches in Asia. Cambridge.