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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
    "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
    "published_on": "2011"
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      "chunk_title": "Pyrard’s Goa Inquisition Account",
      "chunk_data": "Francois Pyrard's account of the Goa Inquisition was based on his personal observations while visiting Goa from July 1608 to January 1610. It is translated by Albert Gray as The Voyage of Francois Pyrard to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Molucas and Brazil. The portion quoted is from Vol. II, part I, pp. 92-95. Cited in A. K. Priolkar, The Goa Inquisition, pp. 27-30.",
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        "event": "Francois Pyrard observed and recorded the Goa Inquisition during his visit from July 1608 to January 1610.",
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      "chunk_title": "Structure of the Inquisition",
      "chunk_data": "The Inquisition consists of two fathers, who are held in great dignity and respect; but the one is a much greater man than the other, and is called Inquisitor Major. The procedure is much more severe than in Portugal; they often burn Jews, whom the Portuguese call Christianos nouveaux, that is to say, 'New Christians'.",
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        "event": "Francois Pyrard described the hierarchy of the Goa Inquisition and its severe treatment of New Christians.",
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      "chunk_title": "Confiscation and Suspicion",
      "chunk_data": "The first time they are taken before the holy Inquisition, all their goods are seized at the same time; they are seldom arrested unless they are rich. The king supplies the cost of this process to everyone who has not wherewithal. But ordinarily they attack them not except they learn that they have amassed much property.",
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        "event": "The Goa Inquisition seized the property of accused people and usually targeted the wealthy.",
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      "chunk_title": "Cruelty of the Procedure",
      "chunk_data": "Nothing in the world is more cruel and pitiless than this process. For the least suspicion, the slightest word, whether of a child or of a slave who wishes to do his master a bad turn, is enough to hang a man; and they give credence to a child, however young, so only he can speak. Sometimes they are accused of putting their crucifixes in the cushions whereon they sit and kneel; sometimes of striking the images; or of refraining from eating bacon; in short that they are still secretly observing their ancient law, though they conduct themselves in public as good Christians. I verily believe that whatever is desired is assumed of them. Only the rich are put to death, while the poor get off with some penance. And, what is most cruel and wicked, a man who would do evil to another will, in revenge, go and accuse him of his crime. When the other is arrested, there is no friend will dare say a word for him, or will visit him, or lift a hand in his behalf, no more than for a person charged with treason. The people durst not speak in public of this Inquisition but with very great honour and respect; and if a chance word should escape a man, having but the smallest reference to it, he must forthwith go, accuse and denounce himself, if he suspect that anyone has heard him. Otherwise, if another denounce you, you will be at once arrested. It is a terrible and fearful thing to be there even once for you have no proctor or advocate to speak for you, while they are judges and parties at once.",
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        "event": "Pyrard condemned the Inquisition’s reliance on suspicion, denunciation, confiscation, imprisonment, and unequal punishment.",
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      "chunk_title": "Secretive Imprisonment",
      "chunk_data": "The form of the procedure is all the same as in Spain, Italy and Portugal. Sometimes men are kept prisoners two or three years without knowing the case, visited by none but officers of the Inquisition, and in a place where they never see a fellow creature. If they have no means of livelihood, the king gives it them.",
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        "event": "The Goa Inquisition followed Iberian and Italian procedures and sometimes held prisoners in isolation for years.",
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      "chunk_title": "Treatment of Converts",
      "chunk_data": "The Indian Gentiles and Moors, of whatsoever religion, are not subject to this Inquisition unless they have become Christians, and even then are not so rigorously dealt with as the Portuguese or New Christians from Portugal or other Christians from Europe. But if peradventure an Indian, Moor, or Gentile inhabitant of Goa, had dissuaded or hindered another that was minded to become Christian, and that was proved against him, he would be punished by the Inquisition, as would be he who has caused another to quit Christianity; such cases often happen. The reason why they treat these Indians thus rigorously is that they suppose that they cannot be so steadfast in the faith as the old Christians; also that it will prevent the rest from being led astray. For the same reason, too, they permit them to retain some of their petty Gentile and Mohamedan superstitions, such as not eating pork or beef, not drinking wine, and keeping to their former dress and ornaments, that is among men as well as women that are become Christians.",
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        "event": "The Inquisition subjected Indian converts and those who hindered conversion to special forms of religious control.",
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      "chunk_title": "Case of the Hollander Jeweller",
      "chunk_data": "It would be impossible to calculate the number of all those put to death by the Inquisition in ordinary course at Goa. I shall content myself with the single example of a Hollander jeweller or lapidary, that had resided there five-and-twenty years more, and was married to a Portuguese Mestizo, by whom he had an exceedingly pretty daughter of marriageable age, and had amassed goods to the amount of about thirty or forty thousand cruzadoes. Being at that time on bad terms with his wife, he was accused of having the books of the pretended religion, whereupon he was arrested and his goods seized. One half was left to his wife, the other to the Inquisition. I know not what befell him, but I am inclined to believe that he was put to death, or at the least lost all his property; he was a Hollander.",
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      "chunk_title": "Poor Portuguese Soldier Deported",
      "chunk_data": "They did not treat in like sort a Portuguese soldier, who had married both in Portugal and in the Indies; but he was poor. They sent him in our carrack to Portugal as a prisoner to Lisbon; had he been rich, they had never taken the pains to send him.",
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        "event": "The Inquisition deported a poor Portuguese soldier to Lisbon rather than imposing the treatment reserved for wealthy defendants.",
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      "chunk_title": "Goa’s Inquisitorial Authority",
      "chunk_data": "For the rest, all the other Inquisitions of the Indies depend upon that of Goa.",
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      "chunk_title": "Public Inquisitorial Judgements",
      "chunk_data": "It is upon all the great feast-days that they carry out their judgements. Then they cause all these poor culprits to march together in shirts steeped in sulphur and painted with flames of fire; the difference between those that have to die and the rest being that their flames are turned upwards and the other downwards. They are led straight to the great church or See which is hard by the prison, and are there during the mass.",
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