Christian Missionary Role In India - 6

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I think you have got a wrong impression about Goan inquistion. It could be due to your idea from some web site only. Try to know the other side or any independent views. Inquistion and especilly Goan inquisition was a tribunal to punish erring BELIEVERS, not any NON BELIEVERS. Inquisition was directed aginst members of the Catholic church. I acknowledge that it was avvery very cruel method of indictment and punishing. No Hindu was ever punished in the inquisition.
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Paul,

That particular line is along the lines of saying holocoust never happened in Nazi Germany - kinda like no jew was hurt.

I gather you have never stepped in Goa or northern parts of Karnataka or interacted with anyone from those parts. There is no 'wrong impression' about Goan inquistion, and the idea is not from 'some website'. My ancestors are from those parts and what happened there in pretty common knowledge. Most authorative books on this issue are by Christians themselves who were forcibly converted.

Some books worth reading on this:
- Cabral e Sa, M. Wind of fire: The music and musicians of Goa
- Davison Winius, G. The Black Legend of Portuguese India
- Ferdinand, P. The Rape of Goa.
- Gaytonde, P. D Portuguese Pioneers in India
- Gomes Pereira, R Goa. Hindu Temples and Deities
- Priolkar, A. K. The Goa Inquisition
- T R deSouza, Medieval Goa
- D deMendonca, Conversions and Citizenry
- VN Kudva, History of the Dakshinatya Saraswats, Samyukta Gowda Saraswata Sabha, Madras, India
- MA Couto, Goa: A Daughter's Story, (2001)
- C Keni, Saraswats in Goa and Beyond, (1998)
- Richard Zimler's Guardian of the Dawn

Visit any temple in Goa and you'll hear the tales of how Hindus were proscecuted and massacred in Goa on orders of Xavier whom vatican rewarded with sainthood. The 'Rigour of Mercy' unleashed on Goan inhabitants by papal sancation would have made the deeds of Timur Lan look like a boy scout.