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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the latest Noronha post appended below he is once again trying to pull wool over the eyes of Goanetters. Despite his claims, Noronha has dug up nothing to refute the observations of Priolkar, Dellon or Buchanan. The application of the black legend ideology to the Goan situation is a figment of Noronha's imagination. He has provided not a single piece of factual evidence to back it up. No genuine historian or scholar has proposed the application of this theory to the inquisition in Goa based on his or her research. What takes the cake for me, however, is the implication below that no one has translated Antonio Baiao's work on the inquisition to find out what it says. This tells me that Noronha has no idea about what Priolkar has written in his book because the truth is that Priolkar has relied heavily on the archival publications of Baiao for his work. The bogus claims of "digging up" and reliance on "hints" and ideology, rather than actually reading the books in question continues to fascinate me. Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue, 8/4/09, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न <[email protected]> wrote: > > We can split hairs till the cows come home. The question is > just > whether the depiction of the Inquisition in Goa also > suffers from a > Black Legend and whether those who did such a good job of > spreading > its story across centuries and across countries did it with > vested > interests or not. > > After believing the likes of Priolkar and Dellon ("after > all, he is a > Catholic himself") for long, the more one digs-up the more > one gets > convinced that the answer to both the queries above is an > unambiguous > yes. > > To understand "why" will need more pieces of the jig-saw to > fall into > place, though there are a lot of hints already available. > Does anyone > have access to the so-far untranslated work of Antonio > Baiao? Even > Prof Higgs from Toronto gives us interesting insights to > believe that > the Inquisition was more about power and class, rather than > religion > and communalism (as made out to be in contemporary India). > FN
