The entirety of Indian history may as well have few parallels to the astonishing monstrosity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa. Despite that, the awareness of such a brutal massacre is astonishingly low; such is the capability of our beloved Marxist-Islamophilic-Liberal historians & so-called elite "intellectuals" in brainwashing the naive, innocent populace of India.
One will surely ponder upon how foolishly Hindus (in particular) have been utterly brainwashed about the merciless annihilation of their ancestors. Hindus now take pride in graduating from missionary schools like St. Xavier's, visit the Church as if it is their backdoor garden, as well as normalizing many other Christian influenced festivals and events - all while thinking this is completely normal.
The Portuguese inquisition of Goa started when Vasco Da Gama returned to Portugal after he discovered the route to India via Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, traveling on his ship, Sao Gabriel
Unrelated point, but Indian ships were way larger compared to European ships back then:
Upon his return to Portugal in 1510, he told the affluent Portuguese royals about the undiscovered route to Bharatavarsha, which gave the Portuguese a golden opportunity to colonize and capture the Western coast of India and in particular - Goa.
Pope Nicholas V soon issued a diktat which gave the kingdom of Portugal a virtual monopoly on forcing Christianity upon the locals of the newly discovered areas (and mainly India), along with the monopoly to trade on behalf of the Roman Catholic Empire in Asia. Soon after, the Portuguese troops arrived in Goa and set up their first colony.
Dismayed by the local traditions followed by the Hindus, the Portuguese were angered by the locals following a religion which did not fulfill their foolish Christian ideals; a religion other than Christianity could not be tolerated and they immediately ordered all the magnificent Hindu temples within the colony to be shut, smashed and burned. This event marked the beginning of the bloody, despicable and merciless Goan inquisition that was accompanied with mass executions of the local Hindu population - who were the majority at that point of time.
In 1541, idol worship was forbidden in the Portuguese colony of Goa and over 350 temples were destroyed by the Portuguese soldiers. It had been officially declared that being a believer of any religion other than Roman Catholicism was forbidden for residents of Goa.
The infamous "philanthropist" Francis Xavier and Martin Alfonso were sent to Goa by King John III of Portugal in 1542 to initiate the process of converting Goan residents to Roman Catholicism. On their arrival in Goa, they were enraged by the non-Christian "satanic" Hindus not abiding to their ridiculous Christian religion. A disturbed and enraged Francis Xavier wrote to King John III of Portugal on the 16th of May, 1546 to impose inquisition on Goa in an attempt to ‘discipline’ the residents and make them follow Catholicism.
Francis Xavier was here to plant the seeds of Christianity but in a more ferocious and violent way which included oppression and execution of several people, forceful conversions, destroying Hindu temples and idols which gave him immense satisfaction and felt like he’s contributing to his cause.
Before Francis Xavier, there were several agitations and movements regarding the demolition of Hindu temples all around India masterminded by the Mughal rulers and some Portuguese sailors who tried to rule the southern part of India. This continued under the rule of Xavier when most of the Hindu temples in and around Goa were destroyed followed by an anti-Hindu policy that came into being passed by the government of Goa.
By this time, there was a clear understanding among the people of the kind of domination that can be expected from Francis Xavier and his missionaries. Xavier had overtaken the government and was now looking for land expansion for churches and for fulfilling his pathetic occultist Christian ideals and administrative purposes.
More Hindus were converted during this period. More temples were destroyed, idols were broken down to pieces. There was a revolution to allow Christianity into India but the way Francis Xavier did was brutal and desperate.
The inquisition banned apostasy of Roman Catholics to Hinduism and banned the sale of books in the Konkani, Marathi, Sanskrit and Arabic languages. The use of Konkani was forbidden in the colony of Goa.
Upon the imposition of the inquisition in Goa, life became absolute hell for the Goan Hindus, who were targeted in particular by the sadistic, maniacal Christian missionaries. The Christian missionaries called the Hindus ‘uncultured savages’, who worshipped black idols ‘resembling demons’; the Christians took it upon themselves to coerce Hindus into proselytizing and eventually succumbing to Christianity. An Inquisition office was thereby set up by the Portuguese, which was specifically created for the execution of Hindus.
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Hindus were forbidden from holding any public office, inheriting their father’s property and testify as witnesses in courts. If a Hindu child was deemed to be an orphan by the Portugese colonialists, the child was forcibly seized by the Society of Jesus (founded by the not-so-saintly Francis Xavier) and was forcibly baptized to Christianity. Clear discrimination was seen in the social life of Hindus, with severe discrimination took place against the innocent populace. In 1567, a law banning Christians from employing Hindus in the colony was introduced, which further aggravated the dystopian stature of Hindus in Goan society.
The inquisition office even questioned natives who were suspected of following their previous religions in private. Over a span of 214 years (1560-1774), 16,172 natives were questioned and often tortured for following a religion other than Roman Catholicism. To be questioned by the inquisition office, a mere rumor of practicing idol worship in private or chanting a Hebrew prayer would suffice for the missionaries to drag the native to the office.
Those convicted of following another religion were subjected to heinous punishments, including public flogging, being ‘put on the rack’, burnt on stakes and having one’s nails and eyes crushed by bloodthirsty executioners appointed by the brutal, merciless missionaries. In some cases, entire villages were burnt with the women and children taken as slaves, openly harassed, tortured and even outright murdered the innocent civilians if they offered even the slightest resistance.. Large wheels were used for torture, with those convicted of following Hinduism being tied to the wheel and then spun, with almost every bone of the innocent Hindu being crushed beyond recognition, to fine pulp, never to be able to live again.
Here are some gruesome, dystopian visuals of the merciless annihilation of Hindus by Portuguese missionaries:
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Another notorious tool used by the barbaric missionaries of Portugal was the "breast ripper". Hindu women were ruthlessly, mercilessly tortured with this henious, devilish device. This device was used by the Christian barbarians to forcefully rip off Hindu women's breasts.
Yes, you read that right. These barbarians must have been unparalleled in their destructive tendencies; perhaps equalled only by the Muslim invaders of India.
By then, thousands of Hindus had lost their lives fighting a battle and being tortured by Francis Xavier and his missionaries with no proof or any kind of records lift behind of the people and families destroyed by him. Later, a doctor who escaped a similar galley in Lisbon wrote a book on the torturers that took place in Goa which was later achieved by the secretary of governor in Goa read about the methods they used.
The rules and regulations were made even worse by a minister who was appointed by the pope of the Vatican who said idols of any kind including stone, copper or any such material. He also ordered to clear off all the temples in a particular period of time. Due to his aggressive decision-making impulse, he was poisoned by a Hindu uprising and was killed. The income generated from the temples in India was also starting to be transferred to the churches leaving no space for the temples to survive.
Innocent Hindu children were sometimes taken away from their parents and burnt in front of them, with the parent being tied and forced to witness his child being burnt alive until he accepts to convert to Christianity. Over 4,000 non-Christians were inflicted with such punishments during the course of the inquisition. In inspiration of the Muslim invaders, the missionaries imposed the Xenddi tax on the Hindu population, similar to the dreaded Jaziya tax once forcefully imposed by the tyrant Aurangzeb.
Amidst the Portuguese inquisition, a small group of Saraswats of Kaundinya Gotra and Vatsa Gotra managed to hide from the tyrannical Portuguese colonialists and smuggled the famous Mangeshi shivalinga of Lord Shiva out of its original site in the Kushasthali Cortalim village and built the renown Mangeshi temple in Goa’s Priol village - which belonged to the erstwhile Hindu Kingdom of Sonde. Since the time of the shifting, the temple has been rebuilt and renovated twice during the reign of the Marathas and again in the year 1890. The final renovation occurred in the year 1973 when a golden kalasha (holy vessel) was fitted atop the tallest dome of the temple.
The Portuguese ravaged homes destroyed the local culture and imposed a foreign religion on the local population. Hindus were deliberately targeted by the European invaders in an attempt to convert them to Christianity. Despite the barbarism used by the Europeans, Hinduism somewhat barely survived the brutal fangs of Christianity and numerous attempts to erase it entirely from the exquisite Indian culture.
The Goan Inquisition is a disturbing and a grim reminder specifically to Goan Hindus and to Hindus in general, about their history and signifies the struggles undertaken by our ancestors to preserve our cultural identity and the need to continue struggling to uphold Hindu Dharma.
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