Die Eigenart Goas

Abstract: During its good old days (XVII th. century) Goa was the most important Portuguese city. Today, however, from its splendour only its stateley and sumptuous churches remain in the middle of a desert grove of palm tres. Rather, confronting a hostile and impenetrable world the city, at the most central part of the ocean it once had longed to dominate, took advantage of its marginal situation. Through a weak half-breed opposed to by a system of castes but compensated for a religious assimilation together with its custom and ways of thinking, a Christian Society was brought forth into the city and its fertile plains, which form its rural surroundings, and where the Inquisition endeavoured to expurgate the tenacious traces of the atavic Hinduism. Thus, the Old Conquest, a center of proselytism and evangelistic ambition that History throug hout its course would take on to deny, have left an indel ible Christian mark in this corner of India. The churches and their parishes, often built on t.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1403

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Die Eigenart Goas ; volume:17 ; number:1/2 ; year:1963 ; Erdkunde ; 17, Heft 1/2 (1963)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Ribeiro, Orlando

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1963.01.03
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291208087.437713851916
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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