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