Re: pub: Showcasing Goan architecture

Architexturez. wrote:


> In 1560 A.D. the infamous Tribunal of Inquisition was introduced which 
> brought along forced conversion and religious persecution of 
> non-Christians. But of the many changes this wrought, two were 
> particularly "volatile", Pandit observes; one was the emancipation of 
> women and the other the free transportation of architectural features 
> from religious buildings to houses.

er! has somebody read this book? what argumentational twists are 
employed in this 'emancipation of women' stuff?

i thought it was more like this?

http://www.apol.net/dightonrock/inquisition_goa.htm

“......The inquisition, this tribunal of fire, thrown on the surface of 
the globe for the scourge of humanity, this horrible institution, which 
will eternally cover with shame its authors, fixed its brutal domicile 
in the fertile plains of the Hindustan. On seeing the monster everyone 
fled and disappeared, Moguls, Arabs, Persians, Armenians, and Jews. The 
Indians even, more tolerant and pacific, were astounded to see the God 
of Christianism more cruel than that of Mohammed, deserted the territory 
of the Portuguese  and went to the lands of the Muslims, with whom time 
had made peaceful living possible, in spite of the fact that they 
(Indians) had received from them enormous and incalculable evils. In 
this fashion the fields and cities became deserted as are today Diu and 
Goa“

Alexandre Herculano, a famous writer of the 19th century, mentioned in 
his “Fragment about the Inquisition”:   “...The terrors inflicted on 
pregnant women made them abort....Neither the beauty or decorousness of 
the flower of youth, nor the old age, so worthy of compassion in a 
woman, exempted the weaker sex from the brutal ferocity of the supposed 
defenders of the religion....”