
Smita SailAmrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham | AMRITA · Department of English
Smita Sail
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The impact of colonisation on Goan society
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The advent of farming has undeniably transformed the bond humans shared with land. Permanent settlements and ownership of land were the direct outcome of farming. But the sense of ownership that existed in the past is vastly different from the one found today. Goa, a Southwestern coastal state of India, boasted of a unique self-sustaining system of...
The Colonial period of Goa, a small southwestern state of India, colonized by Portugal for over 450 years, is often considered a period of pollution and impurity. This essay seeks to understand the role of purity and pollution rituals in the religious conversions of sixteenth-century Goa. We undertake to closely analyze the fictionalized instances...