Goa’s Inquisition: Facts-Fiction-Factoids
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Author: Alan Machado
9788195632930 | PB | pp. 329 | 2022 | Goa 1556, ATC Publishers
The book, Goa’s Inquisition: Facts-Fiction-Factoids, is an attempt to understand how and why the Inquisition came to Goa, the way it functioned, and its influence on the population at large.
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The Inquisition was an institution, one of many, entrusted by the king of Portugal to consolidate Portugal’s cultural and economic expansion into new worlds. Apart from being a guardian of religious orthodoxy, it attempted to mould diverse and widespread subject populations into one nation by imposing a uniform social and cultural code modelled after that in Portugal. The justifications notwithstanding, the Inquisition soon developed a reputation of being uniquely unrelenting and sadistic, a reputation that is belied by archival sources.
A careful reading of documents still preserved in the archives portray the Goa Inquisition as an emerging modern judicial system often fairer than other contemporary courts. A system that was governed by well-drafted regulations and implemented by qualified officials appointed after due diligence.
Nonetheless, a book on the Goan Inquisition must explain how it acquired its reputation as an engine of relentless persecution while simultaneously explaining the conditions under which it came to Goa, the norms followed by it, and its influence on the local population. This book attempts to do just that.
Additional information
| Author: | Alan Machado |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9788195632930 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 329 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Publisher: | Goa 1556, ATC Publishers |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
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