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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Although addressed to "my dear Santoshbab", permit me to intervene: 2009/8/4 J. Colaco < jc> <[email protected]>: > I am sure you will agree with me on two points: > [1] There are many things our forebears did which would make us hang > our heads in shame today. True. But we are not discussing all these issues here. The topic of discussion is the Inquisition, and how fairly it is being discussed, or whether it is done so with exaggerations, and biased motives. > [2] Sati, the Inquisition, Slavery and unprovoked wars were/and > remain abominations. These issues would only help to cloud the discussion, make everyone defensive, and take us to emotions rather than facts. > Anyone who claims to have the facts on his side MUST prove that he has > the facts, all the facts, and nothing but the facts. Don't forget the *interpretation of the facts*. There is also the question of selection of the facts. This is what Prof David Higgs has to say about Priolkar's work (when he wrote it, he was at the University of Toronto's Department of HIstory at Ontario): Priolkar drew heavily on secondary sources in his sketch of 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. (In Goa: Continuity and Change, ed by Wagle and Coehlo, Univ of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies, 1995) -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/
