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The relic state: St Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India (Studies in Imperialism MUP)

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 | #6149756 in Books |  2014-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x.90 x9.30l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Jonathan E Klaaren|Very good book!|About the Author||Pamila Gupta is Senior Researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa|

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 material...

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