Flight of the Deities: Hindu Resistance in Portuguese Goa

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"Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city (Goa) in 1510".

QUOTE:

'At one stage, a number of Hindus fled in terror to escape religious persecution and only when the wave passed did some return.'

- SOURCE:
Goa and Portugal: History and Development
edited by Charles J. Borges, Oscar Guilherme Pereira, Hannes Stubbe
ISBN 10: 8170228670
ISBN 13: 9788170228677

HINDU RESISTANCE IN PORTUGUESE GOA:

'The policy for conversion was begun soon after the arrival of the Porutuguese in Goa in 1510, and gradually intensified
throughout the sixteenth century. The Inquisition was a formal tribunal devoted to identifying heretics among the converts to Catholicism and was formally launched in 1561 and lasted until 1761, when it was effectively ended by the Marquis de Pombal, who abolished the exclusive rights of Christians.

As the capital of the Estado da India, the Portuguese colonial empire in Asia and East Africa, Goa was subjected to a blizzard of
policies designed at once to transform and fossilize life there. Desiring to preserve much of the precolonial village economic structure, yet determined to force their Goan subjects to total conversion to Catholicism, the Portuguese created policies that had a dramatic impact on Goan culture and identity. The focus of this article will be on the Hindu resistance to the policies that were applied by the colonial regime and its role in the shaping of the regional culture: in the face of over-whelming physical
force, direct defiance revealed itself primarily in the religious life of Hindu Goa as archival records of the Portuguese rule and
temple histories demonstrate. Even forms of religious syncretism that are pervasive in Catholic Goa and might initially be perceived as indications of the success of Portuguese repressive and discriminatory policies represent a subtle pattern of
‘everyday resistance’ and are not simply the blending of Portuguese Catholic and Hindu cultures.

Goa, a former Portuguese colony and now an Indian state, is a small geographical enity with an area of 3,701 square kilometers on the western coast of India between the border of Mahatashtra and Karnataka and was under Portuguese control from 1510 until 1961.
With the ports of Daman and Diu, it was treated as a separate administrative unit by both Portugal and India until it became a separate stsate in the India Union in 1987.'

- SOURCE:
Flight of the Deities: Hindu Resistance in Portuguese Goa
Paul Axelrod and Michelle A. Fuerch
Modern Asian Studies
Vol. 30, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 387-421

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