*A friend sent me this query. Would you have an answer?*
I am researching European cemeteries in India. The Portuguese were the
first major European in India or Goa. Naturally they were the earliest to
establish an organised place for burial or, cemetery, long before the
British did. I am looking for information on the oldest Portuguese
cemeteries in Goa in general. I have been unable to find anything useful on
the internet, apart from the few scattered mention of Goa's cemeteries. But
I would like to know more. Like, what their tombs look like, the
inscriptions and stuff. Any books or sources regarding the same will also
be useful. English will be better. So, could you help?
So far my research tells me that back since the middle ages, it was normal
custom to inter vip bodies beneath church, and common folks in the adjacent
churchyard. That is why there are tablets or plaques on the floor. I have
read that The Portuguese were the first to introduce separate burial
grounds in India, but the author does not exactly say that, " this is the
cemetery opened in that year, and this is the first ever Christian cemetery
in India".
While the Roman Catholic cemetery at Agra survives from 1611, Portuguese
examples should date from the 1500s. Perhaps nothing survived. Some
Portuguese cultural website told me those cemeteries used to be covered
with a roof (a novelty) and a chapel used to be there. Perhaps nothing
survived.
Portuguese Goa fascinates me. But there aren't many books on that (I may be
wrong). In fact, in my opinion, cemeteries are generally seen as a morbid
thing and something to be avoided. That is why perhaps there aren't many
books on cemeteries.
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