"On the other hand, the story of the Inquisition is a dismal record of callousness and cruelty, tyranny and injustice,…"

"In the present volume scrupulous care has been taken to eschew bias and present a dispassionate and objective account…"

"The records of the Inquisition should have formed the most important source of information for writing an account of …"

"One can visualise two main difficulties in the way of a historian of the Holy Office in Goa. First, the Inquisition c…"

"I have always felt it a pity that there should be no authentic account’ of the Inquisition in India and have given so…"

"It is indeed an irony of history that some of the descendants of the ‘“‘ New Christians ’”’ in Goa, who suffered crue…"

"The Portuguese rulers apparently hoped that the Hindu temples which would thus be left unrepaired would in the course…"

"The missionary zeal of the rulers would not permit them to rest in patience until the Hindu temples fell into ruins f…"

"In a report submitted by Irmao Gomes Vaz to the king on December 12, 1567, he gives extracts from some letters sent b…"

"During the early period of British rule in India, the administrators tended to look askance at the growth of the prin…"