Sunday, July 14, 2013

'Temples destroyed in Goa by Portuguese were not Hindu' | ummid.com

'Temples destroyed in Goa by Portuguese were not Hindu' | ummid.com
"This political motive of appropriating Goan history is highly reductionist and distortionist in its approach. I have described these attempts as Hindu-ology. In fact even the word Hindu does not exist in the entire sixteenth century Indo-Portuguese historiography," says his paper, titled "The Other Orientalism and the Challenge and Opportunities for the Church in Goa".