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Religion and empire in Portuguese India : conversion, resistance, and the making of Goa / Angela Barreto Xavier.

By: Xavier, Angela Barreto [author.].
Contributor(s): Xavier, Angela Barreto. Invencao de Goa.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookLanguage: eng.Publisher: Ranikhet: Permanent black, 2022Description: xxiii, 407 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781438489117.Subject(s): Anti-imperialist movements -- India -- Goa, Daman and Diu -- History | Goa, Daman and Diu (India) -- Religious life and customs | Goa, Daman and Diu (India) -- Church history | Goa, Daman and Diu (India) -- Civilization -- 16th century | Goa, Daman and Diu (India) -- Civilization -- 17th century | Portugal -- Colonies -- Asia -- Administration -- HistoryDDC classification: 954.798
Contents:
Reform in the kingdom, reform in the empire -- Designing conversion -- New temples and new priests : the establishment of religious orders in Goan villages -- Tools of Christianisation : shaping memory, understanding, and will -- Initial moves : discontent, resistance, acquiescence -- The martyrs of Cuncolim and other episodes of resistance -- The defence of the "genuine nobility" : conflicts of memory, identity, and power.
Summary: "Examines the colonisation of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule"--
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"Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa by Ângela Barreto Xavier was first published by Permanent Black D-28 Oxford Apts, 11 IP Extension, Delhi 110092 India, for the territory of South Asia."

"This book is a shortened version of A invenção de Goa : poder imperial e conversões culturais nos séculos XVI e XVII, published in Lisbon in 2008 by Imprensa de Ciências Sociais."--Page [vii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reform in the kingdom, reform in the empire -- Designing conversion -- New temples and new priests : the establishment of religious orders in Goan villages -- Tools of Christianisation : shaping memory, understanding, and will -- Initial moves : discontent, resistance, acquiescence -- The martyrs of Cuncolim and other episodes of resistance -- The defence of the "genuine nobility" : conflicts of memory, identity, and power.

"Examines the colonisation of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule"--

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