Continuing the recent debate... another point of view (extracted from a longer text):
Much better known [than other texts on the Inquisition] is Anant Kakba Priolkar's 1961 study, published in the year of the liberation of Goa from Portugal by invading Indian forces, published in Bombay, and something of a bibliographical rarity outside the subcontinent. Priolkar drew heavily on secondary sources in his sketch on the Goan Inquisition, especially on a late seventeenth-century Frenchman, Gabriel Dellon, arrested in Goa, whose case was made famous by the denunciatory account of his experiences published after his return from France. The original trial documents have been lost, presumably among those ordered destroyed by the governor and so cannot be compared against Dellon's exuberant account of his misfortunes. Priolkar also used the over-imaginative account of a British clergyman, C. Buchanan, who wanted to think that what he was not allowed to see in Old Goa in 1808 was what Dellon inveighed at more than a century earlier. Priolkar consulted no original documentation from the Portuguese Holy Office which survives in other deposits, and this renders his a deficient, if still useful, account of the Inquisition of the late eighteenth-century Goa. Source: David Higgs, 'The Inquisition in Late Eighteenth-Century Goa', in Goa; Continuity and Change, edited by Narendra K. Wagle and George Coehlo (sic), University of Toronto 1995 -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org "So far, this is the oldest I've been." - George Carlin
