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Anant Priolkar Quotes

1895–1973 India

Anant Priolkar (1895 - 1973) was an Indian historian.

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There is reason to believe that the zeal to snatch away orphans was inspired not only by desire to save their souls but also by anxiety to take charge of their estates.

It is indeed an irony of history that some of the descendants of the ‘“‘ New Christians ’”’ in Goa, who suffered cruelly at the hands of the Inquisition, should be so anxious to prevent the truth about the working of the institution from coming to light.

In the present volume scrupulous care has been taken to eschew bias and present a dispassionate and objective account of the working of the Goa Inquisition. Inspite of this, the picture which emerges is undoubtedly grim. But this could not be helped as truth had to be told.

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