The author earns a bottle of Goa-Rinse !! --- On Sat, 6/27/09,
I was happy to watch a "Lokahsay Hai, Hai!" episode on Prudent Media last night that had the usual group of persons [including Dr. Babita Prabhudesai] talking about about the "conversions" of Roman Catholics and Hindus [ the deemed "Hindu" Bhandari and GAKUVED communities, really] by the "Believers" [a Goan slang for the "Cults" or allegedly re-born Christians who have started where the "Charismatics" stopped short in increasingly materialistic Hindu and Catholic communities obsessessed with donations, specially for "renovations" of temples and churches, often making it difficult to differentiated between a priest/yagnik/ beatnik/swami/ bhott and your friendly neighbourhood contractor aka builder]. The reference to Shivaji's "deal" with the Portuguese and the statement of fact that the "Inquisition " was against the lapsed catholics and those not fully converted to the Catholic way of life ...and not the unconverted Hindu or heathen ... will most likely be hard to swallow, unless washed down with liberal doses of the spirit of Good Times [NOT Good News]. Understanding the Inquisition seems like a tall order ...something like understanding the "Black Legend" and how the Spanish were made to appear more-bloodthirsty- than the British and the Dutch. Still it is well worth the atempt. --- On Sat, 27/6/09, 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 to 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 -- __._,_.__[ Recent Activity 1 New MembersVisit Your Group Yahoo! Groups Mental Health Zone Find support for Mental illnesses Yahoo! Groups Everyday Wellness Zone Check out featured healthy living groups. Yahoo! Green Make It Green Submit ideas to better our planet . __,_._,___
