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Quotes from Malabar and the Portuguese — K. M. Panikkar

1895–1963 India

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In their mediaevalism there was little to choose between the higher Portuguese officials and their Indian contemporaries. The insincerity, dishonesty, selfishness, chicanery and cruelty were about on a par, though perhaps, the cruelty of the Portuguese was the greater, and indeed commercial and political intercourse must have been difficult when no man’s word was to be trusted on either side.

Malabar and the Portuguese (1929)

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