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Book An Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa  Preceded by a Short Statistical Account of the Territory of Goa

Download or read book An Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa Preceded by a Short Statistical Account of the Territory of Goa written by José Nicolau da Fonseca and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parish Churches in the Early Modern World

Download or read book Parish Churches in the Early Modern World written by Andrew Spicer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. Nonetheless the church itself artistically and architecturally stood apart from the parish community. It was often the largest and only stone-built building in a village; it was legally distinct being subject to canon law, as well as consecrated for the celebration of religious rites. The buildings associated with the "cure of souls" were sacred sites or holy places, where humanity interacted with the divine. In spite of the importance of the parish church, these buildings have generally not received the same attention from historians as non-parochial places of worship. This collection of essays redresses this balance and reflects on the parish church across a number of confessions - Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed and Anti-Trinitarian - during the early modern period. Rather than providing a series of case studies of individual buildings, each essay looks at the evolution of parish churches in response to religious reform as well as confessional change and upheaval. They examine aspects of their design and construction; furnishings and material culture; liturgy and the use of the parish church. While these essays range widely across Europe, the volume also considers how religious provision and the parish church were translated into a global context with colonial and commercial expansion in the Americas and Asia. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to identify what was distinctive about the parish church for the congregations that gathered in them for worship and for communities across the early modern world.

Book An Historical and Arch  ological Sketch of the City of Goa

Download or read book An Historical and Arch ological Sketch of the City of Goa written by José Nicolau da Fonseca and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Challenges for South Asian Resources and Information Services

Download or read book Challenges for South Asian Resources and Information Services written by Rajwant Singh Chilana and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ravindra Nath Sharma, b. 1941, Indian library and information scientist; contributed articles.

Book Portuguese and Luso Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia  1511 2011  The making of the Luso Asian world  intricacies of engagement

Download or read book Portuguese and Luso Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia 1511 2011 The making of the Luso Asian world intricacies of engagement written by Laura Jarnagin and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years later, a conference held in Singapore brought together a large group of scholars from widely different national, academic and disciplinary contexts, to analyse and discuss the intricate consequences of Portuguese interactions in Asia over the longue duree. The result of these discussions is a stimulating set of case studies that, as a rule, combine original archival and/or field research with innovative historiographical perspectives. Luso-Asian communities, real and imagined, and Luso-Asian heritage, material and symbolic, are studied with depth and insight. The range of thematic, chronological and geographic areas covered in these proceeding is truly remarkable, showing not only the extraordinary relevance of revisiting Luso-Asian interactions in the longer term, but also the surprising dynamism within an area of studies which seemed on the verge of exhaustion. After all, archives from all over the world, from Rio de Janeiro to London, from Lisbon to Rome, and from Goa to Macao, might still hold some secrets on the subject of Luso-Asian relations, when duly explored by resourceful scholars.

Book Goa   s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture

Download or read book Goa s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture written by Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest-surviving churches from Goa’s Portuguese colonial era. In the sixteenth century, this baroque church in Old Goa was constructed to house the sacred relics of St. Francis Xavier and is emblematic of Goa Dourada or Golden Goa. Despite their early modern origins, monuments like the Basilica continue to influence visual culture that pertains to Goa. Accordingly, this book uncovers the traces of architectural images of Goa’s sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments and conducts a genealogical study of how uses of religious architecture shift over time. Thus, even as the Basilica originally functioned to portray or recall a grand empire by evoking the notion of Goa Dourada, its iconicity has been employed in marking Goa’s difference from the rest of India thereafter. By employing an analysis of historical texts, illustrations, photography, film, and pageantry, this volume demonstrates how the image of the Basilica has been employed to create a discourse on Goan identity. In fact, right from the colonial period, when Goa was heralded as the Rome of the East, to the post-Portuguese period, when Goa became an idyllic destination for leisure tourism, architectural images of Bom Jesus have been central in shaping Goa’s identity. Goa’s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture will be useful to students and educators in the fields of architecture, history, anthropology, sociology, history of architecture, and colonial/postcolonial studies. Finally, the long history of a single monument that the book documents highlights how Goans have been shaping their unique culture. At the same time as Goans imbibed Portuguese and other European influences, they also domesticated and remade such colonial heritage in South Asian fashion and, in turn, contributed to global aesthetics.

Book The relic state

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  • Author : Pamila Gupta
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-16
  • ISBN : 1526112167
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book The relic state written by Pamila Gupta and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510–1961), and for which the centrepiece was the 'incorrupt' corpse of São Francisco Xavier (1506–52), a Spanish Basque Jesuit missionary-turned-saint. Using distinct genres of source materials produced over the long duree of Portuguese colonialism, the book documents the historical and visual transformation of Xavier’s corporeal ritualisation in death through six events staged at critical junctures between 1554 and 1961. Xavier’s very mutability as a religious, political and cultural symbol in Portuguese India will also suggest his continuing role as a symbol of Goa’s shared past (for both Catholics and Hindus) and in shaping Goa’s culturally distinct representation within the larger Indian nation-state.

Book Essays in Goan History

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  • Author : Teotonio R. De Souza
  • Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9788170222637
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Essays in Goan History written by Teotonio R. De Souza and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood In The Sea  The Dark History Of Hindu Oppression In Goa

Download or read book Blood In The Sea The Dark History Of Hindu Oppression In Goa written by Dr Vinay Nalwa and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goa transcends its image as a mere its surface lies a history steeped in bloodshed and brutality, often conveniently brushed aside due to the discomfort it elicits. This book unveils these concealed truths, revealing a historical identity of Goa rooted in Sanatan Dharma -the authentic essence of the region. Tracing back thousands of years, the chronicle unfolds the relentless suppression of this identity by Islamic and Christian invaders., the book illuminates a seldom-addressed yet crucial topic-the deliberate and systematic persecution of Hindus, the original inhabitants of Goa, which remains under-discussed even after the liberation of Goa in 1961 from colonial rule.

Book Law and the City

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  • Author : Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2007-05-07
  • ISBN : 1135308926
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Law and the City written by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and the City offers a lateral, critical and often unexpected description of some of the most important cities in the world, including Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Athens, Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: each one from a distinctive legal perspective. An invaluable 'guide' to adopting a different approach to the city and its history, culture and everyday experience, Law and the City is not simply an exploration of the relationship between these two spheres. It details: a flourishing of law’s spatiality and urban legal locality an unfolding of both the juridical urban body and the city’s legal dreams, of both the ‘urban law’ and the ‘juridical polis’. Enlightening and at the same time problematizing the reader, this volume is an innovative collection of truly global dimensions that will prove compelling reading both for specialists and for critical travellers.

Book Health and Hygiene in Colonial Goa  1510 1961

Download or read book Health and Hygiene in Colonial Goa 1510 1961 written by Fatima da Silva Gracias and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Segregation

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  • Author : Carl H. Nightingale
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-07-11
  • ISBN : 022637971X
  • Pages : 539 pages

Download or read book Segregation written by Carl H. Nightingale and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow—two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us in this magisterial history, segregation is everywhere, deforming cities and societies worldwide. Starting with segregation’s ancient roots, and what the archaeological evidence reveals about humanity’s long-standing use of urban divisions to reinforce political and economic inequality, Nightingale then moves to the world of European colonialism. It was there, he shows, segregation based on color—and eventually on race—took hold; the British East India Company, for example, split Calcutta into “White Town” and “Black Town.” As we follow Nightingale’s story around the globe, we see that division replicated from Hong Kong to Nairobi, Baltimore to San Francisco, and more. The turn of the twentieth century saw the most aggressive segregation movements yet, as white communities almost everywhere set to rearranging whole cities along racial lines. Nightingale focuses closely on two striking examples: Johannesburg, with its state-sponsored separation, and Chicago, in which the goal of segregation was advanced by the more subtle methods of real estate markets and housing policy. For the first time ever, the majority of humans live in cities, and nearly all those cities bear the scars of segregation. This unprecedented, ambitious history lays bare our troubled past, and sets us on the path to imagining the better, more equal cities of the future.

Book The Development of Teacher Education in Portuguese Goa  1841 1961

Download or read book The Development of Teacher Education in Portuguese Goa 1841 1961 written by Ricardo Cabral and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with reference to the state of Goa, India.

Book the clear mirror

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book the clear mirror written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Goa Through the Ages  An economic history

Download or read book Goa Through the Ages An economic history written by Teotonio R. De Souza and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early English Travellers in India

Download or read book Early English Travellers in India written by Ram Chandra Prasad and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These studies in Elizabethan and Jacobean travel literature, informed by a scholarly and sympathetic but, very properly, unsentimental approach to ten significant English travellers in India between 1579 and 1630, throw considerable light on the India of the great Mughals and reveal the many strands which are interwoven into the ties that have bound and still, in many ways, bind the great and ancient civilisations of the Indian sub-continent with the smaller and shorter civilisations of the British Isles. Professor Ram Chandra Prasad combines the skills and resources of the historian, the literary critic and the student of comparative literature and languages to demonstrate what we may learn of these two countries from the often idiosyncratic but always rich prose of Englishmen abroad in the ages of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Professor Prasad has chosen for study Thomas Stephens, Ralph Fitch, John Mildenhall, William Hawkins, Thomas Roe, Thomas Coryat, William Finch, Nicholas Withington, Edward Terry, and Henry Lord. He makes just enough reference to non-English travellers, such as Manucci, to keep his readers in the general picture of western exploration , while at the same time he concentrates on his chosen field. The author's practice of quoting long extracts in the original language has a twofold advantage: it makes his narrative more vivid, and it facilitates the determination of what one traveller owes to another. This new, completely revised edition of Early English Travellers in India will continue to fill a long-felt gap in Indo-Anglian literature and it will be greeted as an important achievement by the scholar and the general reader alike.

Book Goa and Portugal

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  • Author : Charles J. Borges
  • Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9788170226598
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Goa and Portugal written by Charles J. Borges and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of twenty-one papers presented at an international symposium on the theme "cultural relations between Portugal and Goa" at the University of Cologne, 29 May-2 June 1996; chiefly covers the 16th-18th centuries.