{ "book_metadata": { "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials", "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose", "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge", "published_on": "2011" }, "chunks": [ { "chunk_index": 1, "chapter_name": "1808. Buchanan on the Inquisition at Goa", "page_numbers": [ 84 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00108-ec5723310833f8a3b403.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Buchanan Visits the Inquisition", "chunk_data": "69. BUCHANAN ON THE INQUISITION AT GOA\n(1808 A.D.)\nClaudius Buchanan visited the Great Hall of the Inquisition in Goa in the company of the Inquisitor. He did not himself see the Inquisition in progress, depending upon Dellon for this kind of information.\nC. Buchanan, Christian Researches in Asia, pp. 177-180.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor", "Dellon" ], "places": [ "Goa", "Great Hall of the Inquisition" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan visited the Great Hall of the Inquisition at Goa with the Inquisitor.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Inquisition", "Travel" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 2, "chapter_name": "1808. Buchanan on the Inquisition at Goa", "page_numbers": [ 84, 85 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00108-ec5723310833f8a3b403.webp", "raw\\pages\\00109-5038cd5a5a000e279178.webp" ], "chunk_title": "The Inquisitor Prepares for the Visit", "chunk_data": "This morning after breakfast my host (the Inquisitor) went to dress for the Holy Office, and soon returned in his inquisitorial robes. He said he would go half an hour before the usual time for the purpose of showing me the Inquisition. I thought that his countenance was more severe than usual; and that his attendants were not so civil as before. The truth was, the midnight scene was still on my mind.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor" ], "places": [ "Goa", "Holy Office" ], "event": "The Inquisitor dressed in his official robes and prepared to show Claudius Buchanan the Inquisition.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Inquisition" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 3, "chapter_name": "1808. 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I took this as a good omen, and followed my conductor with tolerable confidence.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor" ], "places": [ "Goa", "Convent", "Inquisition" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan traveled by Manjeel to the Inquisition and entered with the Inquisitor.", "tags": [ "Travel", "Inquisition" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 4, "chapter_name": "1808. Buchanan on the Inquisition at Goa", "page_numbers": [ 85 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00109-5038cd5a5a000e279178.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Entering the Great Hall", "chunk_data": "He led me first to the Great Hall of the Inquisition. We were met at the door by a number of well dressed persons, who, I afterwards understood, were the familiars, and attendants of Holy Office. They bowed very low to the Inquisitor, looked with surprise at me.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor", "Familiars of the Holy Office" ], "places": [ "Great Hall of the Inquisition", "Goa" ], "event": "The Inquisitor led Claudius Buchanan into the Great Hall, where attendants greeted him with surprise.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Inquisition" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 5, "chapter_name": "1808. Buchanan on the Inquisition at Goa", "page_numbers": [ 85 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00109-5038cd5a5a000e279178.webp" ], "chunk_title": "The Hall of the Auto da Fe", "chunk_data": "The Great Hall is the place in which the prisoners are marshalled for the procession of the Auto da Fe. At the procession described by Dellon in which he himself walked barefoot, clothed with the painted garment, there were upwards of one hundred and fifty prisoners.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "Dellon" ], "places": [ "Great Hall of the Inquisition", "Goa" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan described the Great Hall as the place where prisoners were assembled for the Auto da Fe procession.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "Religion", "Punishment" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 6, "chapter_name": "1808. Buchanan on the Inquisition at Goa", "page_numbers": [ 85 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00109-5038cd5a5a000e279178.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Buchanan Reflects on the Prisoners", "chunk_data": "I traversed this hall for some time, with a slow step, reflecting on its former scenes, the Inquisitor walking by my side in silence. I thought of the fate of the multitude of my fellow-creatures who had passed through this place, condemned by a tribunal of their fellow-sinners, their bodies devoted to the flames and their souls to perdition.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor", "Inquisition prisoners" ], "places": [ "Great Hall of the Inquisition" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan reflected on the prisoners condemned by the Inquisition.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "Religion", "Punishment" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 7, "chapter_name": "1808. 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I now began to suspect that it had been in the mind of the Inquisitor, from the beginning, to show me only a certain part of the Inquisition, in the hope of satisfying my inquiries in a general way.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor", "Inquisition captives" ], "places": [ "Inquisition dungeons", "Goa" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan asked to see the captives, but the Inquisitor refused and appeared to have restricted the tour deliberately.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "Religion", "Imprisonment" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 10, "chapter_name": "1808. 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I should then describe only what I saw; but now the subject was left in awful obscurity.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor", "Inquisition prisoners" ], "places": [ "Inquisition", "Goa" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan pressed the Inquisitor to reveal the prisoners and captives so that he could report only what he witnessed.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "Religion", "Imprisonment" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 11, "chapter_name": "1808. Buchanan on the Inquisition at Goa", "page_numbers": [ 85 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00109-5038cd5a5a000e279178.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Buchanan Asks About the Dungeons", "chunk_data": "Lead me down', said I, 'to the inner building, and let me pass through the two hundred dungeons, ten feet square, described by your former captives. Let me count the number of your present captives, and converse with them. I want to see if there be any subjects of the British Government, to whom we owe protection. I want to ask how long they have been here, how long it is since they beheld the light of the sun, and whether they ever expect to see it again.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "Inquisition captives", "British subjects" ], "places": [ "Inquisition dungeons", "Goa" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan demanded to inspect the dungeons, count the captives, and identify any British subjects held there.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "Imprisonment", "British Empire" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 12, "chapter_name": "1808. 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If, after all that has passed, Father, you resist this reasonable request, I shall be justified in believing, that you are afraid of exposing the real state of the Inquisition in India.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor" ], "places": [ "Chamber of Torture", "Inquisition in India", "Goa" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan demanded to see the torture chamber and learn what punishments had replaced the public Auto da Fe.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "Punishment", "Religion" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 13, "chapter_name": "1808. Buchanan on the Inquisition at Goa", "page_numbers": [ 86 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00110-3006916b2520264cf8f0.webp" ], "chunk_title": "The Inquisitor Refuses to Answer", "chunk_data": "To these observations the Inquisitor made no reply; but seemed impatient that I should withdraw. 'My good Father,' said I, 'I am about to take my leave of you, and to thank you for your hospitable attentions, (it had been before understood that I should take my final leave at the door of the Inquisition, after having seen the interior) and I wish always to preserve on my mind a favourable sentiment of your kindness and candour.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "The Inquisitor" ], "places": [ "Inquisition", "Goa" ], "event": "The Inquisitor declined to respond and appeared eager for Claudius Buchanan to leave.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "Religion" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 14, "chapter_name": "1808. 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It is close to the Palace, that the viceroy and his court may witness the execution; for it has never been the policy of the Inquisition to make these spiritual executions appear to be the executions of the State.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "Viceroy" ], "places": [ "Camp Santo Lazaro", "Goa", "Palace" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan visited the riverside place of burning where victims of the Auto da Fe were taken to the stake.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "Punishment", "Goa" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 17, "chapter_name": "1808. 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But the most painful reflection was, that this tribunal should yet exist, unawed by the vicinity of British humanity and dominion.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "Ministers of the Inquisition" ], "places": [ "India", "Goa" ], "event": "Claudius Buchanan contrasted apostolic Christianity with the violent Inquisition and condemned its continued existence under British influence.", "tags": [ "Religion", "Inquisition", "Colonialism" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 19, "chapter_name": "1808. Buchanan on the Inquisition at Goa", "page_numbers": [ 86 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00110-3006916b2520264cf8f0.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Buchanan Decides to Return", "chunk_data": "I was not satisfied with what I had seen or said at the Inquisition, and I determined to go back again. The Inquisitors were now sitting on the tribunal, and I had some excuse for returning; for I was to receive from the chief Inquisitor a letter, which he said he would give me before I left the place, for the British Resident in Travancore, being an answer to a letter from that officer.", "time": { "start_year": 1808, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1808, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1808 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Claudius Buchanan", "Chief Inquisitor", "British Resident in Travancore" ], "places": [ "Inquisition", "Goa", "Travancore" ], "event": "Dissatisfied with the visit, Claudius Buchanan decided to return to the Inquisition to collect a letter for the British Resident in Travancore.", "tags": [ "Inquisition", "British Empire", "Diplomacy" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 20, "chapter_name": "1808. 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