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Table of Contents

Introduction

Goa Inquisition – Onset of Bloodiest Conversion ...

Goa Inquisition – Bloodiest conversions by Christians ...

Goa Inquisition – Resistance by Hindus Part-III

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Introduction

This ebook is an compilation of blog posts published back in August2011 at my blob KrishiDesh.

The book is loosely arranged in 3 chapters as per the blog posts.

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Goa Inquisition – Onset of BloodiestConversion by Christians Part-I

It was the time when Vasco Da Gama, a Portuguese wanderer searchingfoe new trade routes, discovered a sea route to Bharat in 1498. Hereached the shores of Goa for the purpose of trade[?]. Portuguesetraders took about 4 decades to convince local populace that their intentis trading and not proselytizing. Whereas their masters in Portugal, theCatholic Church, were anxious and forcing them to startproselytize(forcible conversion)[Ref]. [Read how Spanish could forcePortuguese]

The conversion of Jews to Christianity was a marriage decree signed betweenPortugal King and Spain Princess……Many of these New Christians publicly followed Catholic rituals butmaintained some Jewish religious and cultural practices in the privacy of theirown homes. These ‘Conversos‘ or crypto-Jews were also known as Marranos, apejorative term meaning ‘pigs’; the Court of the Holy Office often accused themof apostasy….

Catholic Church in Portugal threatened the traders that they will open theroutes to Asia for all catholics. And under the fear of losing trade benefitsthose Portuguese trader here in Goa started proselytizing. So the CatholicChurch formed Archdiocese of Goa, an administrative body to administerGoan Island under archbishop, in 1534[Ref]. The Catholic bishops weregiving rice to the poor, good jobs in colonies and military support to localrulers in lieu of conversion.

In 1542 Francis Xavier, co-founder of Society of Jesus, landed in Goa tolook after proselytizing activities.

Francis Xavier’s Letter of 1543[Ref]

“These children[converts], I trust heartily, by the grace of God, will be muchbetter than their fathers. They show an ardent love for the Divine law, and anextraordinary zeal for learning our holy religion and imparting it toothers[idolaters]. Their hatred for idolatry is marvellous. They get into feudswith the heathen about it, and whenever their own parents practise it, they

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reproach them and come off to tell me at once. Whenever I hear of any act ofidolatrous worship, I go to the place with a large band of these children, whovery soon load the devil[idolator] with a greater amount of insult and abusethan he has lately received of honor and worship from their parents, relations,and acquaintances. The children run at the idols, upset them, dash them down,break them to pieces, spit on them, trample on them, kick them about, and inshort heap on them every possible outrage”

In 1545 Xavier sent request letter to Portugal King “about the converts notfollowing Christianity but are following old rituals at home and thoughtthat they are the threat to purity of his belief, Christianity“. So herequested for Goa Inquisition.

Inquisition Chamber

The inquisition simply mean the rigorous investigation. But here by“Inquisition” Xavier was requesting for Spanish Inquisition which accepted byPortugal in a marriage decree. His intent was to exterminate native faithbelievers in Goa i.e. Hindus using Goa Inquisition. [And Hindus today go to seehis unburied remains at Basilica of Bom Jesus in Gao from all over the Bharat,and not just that they even attend the prayer. SHAME and DISGRACE. If Hitler'sname gets banned in Germany by his own for brutality on Jews how come wego and worship a venom spewing missionary who ushered havoc in barbarianways on us?]Some[?] argue that the inquisition was not installed in Xavier’s life but theyeasily forget that the Co-Founder of Society of Jesus had requested GoaInquisition. And the same Society of Jesus is involved in Evangelization andapostolic ministry worldwide since formation.In his letter he says “The second necessity for the Christians is that YourMajesty establish the Holy Inquisition in Goa because there are many who liveaccording to the Jewish Law and according to the Mohammedan Sect, withoutany fear of God or shame of the World. And since there are many Hindus whoare spread all over the fortresses, there is the need of the Holy Inquisition, andof many preachers. Your Majesty should provide such necessary things foryour loyal and faithful subjects in the Indies.”

P.S. All occurrences of India are replaced with Bharat.5

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Goa Inquisition – Bloodiestconversions by Christians Part-II

“Inquisition” was the court:[Ref: pg80 of Crimes against India]

Established by catholic government for search of and punishing the heretics.This justification for cruelty, mercilessness and corruption was called “HolyOffice”. The judge appointed was not accountable to anyone except Lisbon andwas free to fix the punishment as he deemed fit. The inquisition had beenestablished in Spain in 1481, Portugal in 1541 and Goa in 1560. Not only Hindusbut Syrian Christians too were targeted in this inquisition.

Francis Xavier could not live to see the fruits of his request to King for“Goa Inquisition”. The inquisitors came and started installing theirbarbaric law to dissuade Hindus from their faith.[Ref]

• Man to be burned The first act was to forbid any open practice of Hindufaith like marriage, worship.

• Orphan Hindu children were taken up by state for the upbringing undercatholic practices.

• Hindus were obliged to attend periodic preaching in the church.

• In order to increase the converts count the bishop used force to feedbeef to the Hindus which would leave the person with the only option to

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convert into Christianity.

• Hindus were deprived off employment with Portuguese.

• Fasting was prohibited,

• Bathing before cooking forcibly stopped,

• Wearing Dhoti by men and Choli by women was not possible.

• Christians were not allowed to work under or to employ Hindus in anycircumstances.

Christians first converted Hindus and then banned the converts fromworking under Hindu farm owners in order to isolate the local Hindussocially and economically. But those who succumbed to pressure andaccepted Christianity awarded with 15 years of tax exemption, goodofficial jobs.

The orders to torture, frighten and reduce Hindu populace wereintroduced at regular intervals by Royal Decree. First in 02 April 1560 thenin 27 November 1563 followed by regular enactments in 03 April 1582, 13March 1612 and 31 January 1620. These all barbaric inhumaneproselytizing activities were supported by Lisbon as long as they wereable to expand Portugal kingdom.

In 1566 under the plan to torture Hindus Viceroy Antano de Noronhaissued an order applicable to the entire area under Portuguese rule.[Ref]

“I hereby order that in any area owned by my master, the king, nobody shouldconstruct a Hindu temple and such temples already constructed should not berepaired without my permission. If this order is transgressed, such templesshall be, destroyed and the goods in them shall be used to meet expenses ofholy deeds, as punishment of such transgression.” [So much in the name ofsecularism, equality, tolerance?]

Missionaries did not stop at forcible conversions but led to iconoclasm. Prior to them barbaric Muslim invaders destroyed so many temples andbuilt mosques out of it. Then these Christian missionaries carriedforward the legacy with more vigor and hate.

In 1567 the campaign of destroying temples in Bardez met with success, at theend of it 300 Hindu temples were destroyed. In 1583 Hindu temples at Esolnaand Kankolim were destroyed through army action.

Auto da fe

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In June 1684 they issued an order to eliminate Konkani language fromGoa. This resulted in the total cleansing of natives. Natives lost theirfaith, land, symbols and now language. Those who spoke Konkani, evenin private, were dealt with toughly.

Archbishop said

“The post of Inquiry Commission in Goa is regarded as Holy.” So no one exceptLisbon which is a Catholic rule can question the commission’s decision at anypoint.

Big House used from 1560 by Inquiry Commission:

It is a palace where inquisition was conducted behind closed doors. It had 200cells for prisoners and tools of torture to inflict pain on the idolaters and forcethem to accept true religion of love, Christianity. Those who would die in jailwere buried and later exhumed and carried along with the prisonerscondemned to death to burn in “auto da fe“, a ritual fire to burn all sacrilegiousthings/objects.

Glimpse of torture by Inquisition:

• An instance of torture using Vigil Eyelids were sliced off and extremitieswere amputated carefully, a person could remain conscious even thoughthe only thing that remained was his torso and head.

• Daughters raped and sons killed in front of their parents and parentscouldn’t even close eyes since eyelids were sliced.

• Huts were burnt of those converts who would resort back to worshipingways of their fathers.

• Arms tied behind and strung up by wrist to keep hanging for hours tosuddenly drop near floor only to pull back quickly to dislocate joints.

• Water torture, where prisoner was laid across iron bar and made toingest water non-stop. This would create pressure on stomach and

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sometimes they would beat stomach with stick till it would burst.

• Torture by fire: Hung over fire to be roasted alive with animal fat coatedon feet to ignite and burn feet.

• Metallic glove to roast the hand over fire. Some tools to break legs andshins.

• Disemboweling a person of the rack. Sharp knives to cut off ears ofone’s head.

• An instrument to tear the women’s breast from her body.

• Women were put into jail for resisting their bestial instincts and burntalive as heretics after raping them in jail.

• Idols of respect were kicked and broken in order to insult Hindus.

Sasetti, who was in Bharat from 1578 to 1588, wrote [Ref]

“The fathers of the Church forbade the Hindus under terrible penalties the useof their own sacred books, and prevented them from all exercise of theirreligion. They destroyed their temples, and so harassed and interfered with thepeople that they abandoned the city in large numbers, refusing to remain anylonger in a place where they had no liberty, and were liable to imprisonment,torture and death if they worshiped after their own fashion the gods of theirfathers.”

In 1684 Qualificadors were appointed by Portuguese Catholic rulers ofGoa to examine all the literature in Marathi, Konkani and Sanskrit.

Qualificadors had submitted the report against Galileo for presenting thetheory of “Stationary Sun”. For which Galileo faced heretical charges fromChurch in 1616.

This was to make sure that nothing is written against Catholic faith. A list

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of prohibited books was maintained and scores of such books wereburnt as and when found while punishing the possessor. Catholics wereat par with the barbarian attacks by Muslim invaders. Muslim invaderburnt Nalanda University Library for not having any copy of Quranwhereas Catholics here burnt literature with fear of anti catholic writing.

Alexandre Herculano wrote in book “Fragment About the Inquisition“:

The terrors inflicted on pregnant women made them abort… There were dayswhen 7-8 were submitted torture.

A French traveler Gabrial Dellon mentions in his book L’Inquisition deGoa published in 1687[Ref];

He was an eye witness to the atrocities, cruelty and reign of terror unleashedby priests. While he was in jail he had heard the cries of tortured people beatenwith instruments having sharp teeth.

After British stationed their troops in Goa the brutalities came to a haltfinally with British pressure. The Big house was demolished to removeall traces of barbarian tortures by catholics on non-catholics and secretHindus. And the person Francis Xavier is still worshiped for what, his giftof Inquisition?

There is no official account of victims of the brutality by PortugueseChristians since all the records destroyed after closing the GoaInquisition in 16 June 1812. But imagine the lives taken by brutal torturein the name Jesus for 262 years without any murmur of regression fromPortuguese rulers and Christians. The number could be in hundreds ofthousands since 262 years definitely means big population.

In June 1897 Archbishop of Evora said in Cathedral:

“The inquisition was infamous tribunal at all places. But the infamy neverreached greater depths, nor was more vile, more black and more completely

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determined by mundane interests than at the tribunal of Goa, by irony calledthe Holy Office. Here inquisitors went to the length of imprisoning in its jailswomen who resisted their advances, and after having satisfied their bestial instincts there, ordering that they be burnt asheretics.”

Dr. Trasta Breganka Kunha, a Catholic citizen of Goa writes[Ref]

“Inspite of all the mutilations and concealment of history, it remains anundoubted fact that religious conversion of Goans is due to methods of forceadopted by the Portuguese to establish their rule. As a result of this violencethe character of our people was destroyed. The propagation of Christian sectin Goa came about not by religious preaching but through the methods ofviolence and pressure. If any evidence is needed for this fact, we can obtain it through law books,orders and reports of the local rulers of that time and also from the mostdependable documents of the Christian sect

Even today Vatican has not rendered apology like it did to Galileo for theagony inflicted on him.[Ref]

This inquisition to me is “The bloodiest state sponsored terrorism in thename of Christianity”.

The question is why our books don’t teach us bitter truth? Why are wedeprived off the true history and instead fed with disillusions of colonialBritish? The nation which welcomed all with open arms today tooremains in the despair for the mistakes of few greedy fools, when are wegoing to learn to self respectful.

There is this teaching in Vedas, which we have forgotten unfortunately:

(Dharma protects those who protect it)

For the nation which forgets history, HISTORY repeats itself for them.PERIOD. If you don’t trust this just look at the Kashmir issue 1990,Deganga riots 2010, Baraily riots 2010.

Zimler’s book “Guardian of the Dawn” talks in details about GoaInquisition. His interview “Goa Inquisition was most merciless and cruel“.

P.S. All occurrences of India are replaced with Bharat except booknames.

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Goa Inquisition – Resistance byHindus Part-III

Portuguese Catholic Christians in Goa were blinded by their love forChristianity and were committing heinous crimes one after another soonafter conquering Goa in 1510. As mentioned in first 2 parts of this seriesChristians tortured Hindus, burnt their houses, killed near ones, rapedwomen, destroyed temples, broke idols.

Upon installing the Inquisition in Goa in 1560 the Jesuits under ViceroyDom Constantino started their conversion work bravely in Sashti(Salcete)in order to create small Christendom. But villagers of Sasthi region didnot pay heed and attacked the Jesuits and their assistants throughout theregion.[Ref] They attacked their horses too. Christians called this asindecent reception of fathers and decided to avenge. So under theencouragement of Viceroy Don Antano De Noronha, in 1567, they starteddestroying temples in Sashti and elesewhere too. This led to destructionof 300 temples. Which included the most socia-economic-spiritual placeof Cancolim too. But devout Hindus rebuilt the burnt temple(the templewas burnt in the fire dedicate in the ‘name of Jesus’ – as per Gomes Vaz)upon returning back.

In this period Sultan of Bijapur upon invitation from the local populaceled siege on Goa for 10 months in 1570. But he could not succeed incapturing Goa since the supplies couldn’t be stopped. Finally Sultan gaveup the battle since could not hold on to the siege for any longer.

There was first violent revolt against atrocities of Christians in Goa. In1583, in the Cuncolim village 20 Christian priests got the dues:[Ref]

In 1583 five priests got orders to intensify conversions in Sasthi (Salcete)region. So these priests decided to start with Cuncolim. Since Cuncolim hadbeen resisting all possible attempts of conversion for long time. Natives wereso deep-rooted that they constructed the destroyed temple even after ordersnot to do so from Portuguese authority. This was good enough reason forthese Catholic minds to start their work in Cuncolim.On 15 July 1983 these 5 Jesuits (members of Society of Jesus) gathered and

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progressed towards Concolim. They had decided to erect a cross and select aground for building Church. Villagers upon getting this information reachedthe spot where the 5 Jesuits and 15 other converts were. Here the villagers,must have, warned Jesuit about consequences, but one of priests attempted toconfront crowd with Gun and that led to killing all the Jesuits and convertsthere. 20 of them were killed there.This incident did not go well, as expected, with Captain-major of PortugueseArmy stationed at Assolna fort. He decided to avenge the death of all Jesuits.He ordered army to raid and destroy orchards of village. He unleashed seriesof atrocities on the Hindu villagers by torturing them in all means possible.The Captain invited the 16 Goankar (owners, caretakers of the village) leadersfor the discussion at he Assolna fort on the river Sal. Here the Portuguese killedthe leaders treacherously even after promising safe measures beforeinvitation. One of the leaders escaped through toilet into Karwar of Karnataka.Upon receiving the news of treacherous killing of leaders by Catholics thevillagers of Cuncolim, Velim, Assolna, Ambelim and Veroda refused to paytaxes. As a result their lands were confiscated and entrusted to Condado.Conversions started in full swing with more brutal force now. Some villagersshifted to other parts along with their places of worship too.

Memorial in the name of the leaders of Cuncolim.

In 1603 and 1640 Dutch had given tough naval fights which costPortuguese the spice trade route. Dutch took over the spice trade and asan alternative Portuguese found Brazil as new spice trade base. Whicheased the influx of Jesuits in Goa substantially reducing their religiousfanaticism in Goa since they got one more place to proselytize.

King Shivaji: In 1660-61 he attacked Portuguese for primary reasons of

• There was need to have control over coastal area for defending the14

attacks from sea and controlling the trade.

• To relieve the oppressed Hindus under Portuguese territory.

It was known to King Shivaji that under Goa Inquisition Christians aretorturing Hindus brutally to accept Christianity. And King Shivaji couldnot stand by the brutality against his own people in their own land. So hedecided to retaliate.

Catholic christians were against any sort of agreement with Hindu King since itwas considered apostasy in Inquisition. So failed to reach agreementChatrapati Shivaji launched attack on Dicholi(Bicholin). Where in Vathadeo theyhad possession for some time which led to agreement between Marathas andPortuguese. And here Portuguese agreed to treat Hindus at par with Christianswithout any bias. Portuguese or Marathas never declared it as state of war.Some Goans were unhappy that they couldn’t be part of Maratha empirewhereas some were satisfied that at least they wouldn’t be treated unfairlyafter peace. But Portuguese kept on facing uprising every now and then againstinquisitors.

Chatrapati Sambhaji:

After Chatrapati Shivaji his son Chatrapti Sambhaji too attackedPortuguese at various times from 1681 to 1683 in order to keep themunder control. Mughals supported Portuguese when Chatrapati Sambhajihad almost claimed all Goan territory in 1683. In December 1683 ChSambhaji conquered the Chapora Fort by defeating the Portuguesewithout firing a single bullet and made this place base camp for Marathaforces and it became the northern outpost of the Old conquests. The winwas so close that the ruler Count De Alwor and his ministers werepraying for their safety to St. Xavier by taking out his body from church.And then surprisingly Aurangzeb sent 100000 troops to attack on MarathaKingdom which made Marathas leave Goa by signing treaty withPortuguese. Which Portuguese never maintained. Thereafter tooChatrapati Sambhaji kept on attacking Portuguese with Goan’s support.In 1717 won back the Chapora Fort from Maratha forces and renovated it.Portuguese lost the fort again to Marathas in 1739 after 2 yearsbitter fight by Portuguese.

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In 1741 Marathas almost took over the Goa city but an unexpected re-enforcement from Viceroy Marquis of Lourical and defeated Marathas inthis battle. But it made them lose some territory. But by this timePortuguese were facing constant attacks and that left them with thechoice of reducing the conversion efforts in order maintain civil unrest.Because all these attacks were possible because locals never supportedthese barbaric Inquisitors.

After Losing the war of Panipat Maratha Peshwas lost control over Goa.Later Portuguese added many more cities to its ambit but by that timePortuguese had expunged Jesuits in 1749 since they felt Jesuits arepuppets of Pope of Rome. This eased the religious tension in Goa sinceJesuits were the Inquisitors in Goa; Jesuits (Catholic Christians) werebehind all brutalities.

In 1797 British army occupied Goa and started acting against Inquisitorssternly. Finally in 1812 inquisition was abolished in Goa and soon afterthat in 1813 British withdrew their army from Goa.

Jai Bharat!

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