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The relic state : St Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gupta, Pamila, Author.
- Series:
- Studies in imperialism.
- Studies in imperialism The relic state
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies--Religious aspects--India.
- Colonies.
- Portuguese--History.
- Portuguese.
- Goa (India : State)--Colonial influence.
- Goa (India : State).
- Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552.
- Francis Xavier.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Sao Francisco Xavier (1506-52), a Spanish Basque Jesuit missionary-turned-saint.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781526112163
- 1526112167
- 9781781708002
- 1781708002
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