Instead of giving us the London-based Zimler's opinion about Inquisitional
events in Goa, why not provide the actual data about the victims of the Goa
Inquisition. We know the number subjected to capital punishment. So why do not
we have a breakdown of their ethnicity? If we do not know the ethnic
breakdown,
can we claim one group was a greater victim than another?
Zimler's novel is a classical example where fictional novels are used to back
up
Goa's history.
In fact many references used to substantiate the Inquisition in Goa on
Wikipedia
are fictional novels. So much for the desire / insistence of Goans to use
references. Venatitius are you reading this?:=))
Whoever wrote the Wiki article about the Inquisition in Goa did a great hatchet
job. I did not see any references to historians of the 17th /18th century who
recorded Goa's history 'real time'. Rather we rely on novels written in the
20th / 21th century.
Regards, GL
----------- Eddie Fernandes
Muslims were the major victims of the Spanish Inquisition in Goa. Richard
Zimler
of course focuses on the couple of Jews. But his work is seminal in the sense
that it highlights the plight of the Goans...
Zimler says, " My novel, Guardian of the Dawn, takes place in the Portuguese
colony of Goa during the early 17th century, and it is an historical mystery
that explores the dangers of religious fundamentalism...
