Early modern Goa: Indian trade, transcultural medicine, and the Inquisition

Portugal’s introduction of the Inquisition to India in 1560 placed the lives of Jews, New Christians, and selected others labelled ‘heretics’, in peril. Two such victims were Garcia da Orta, a Portuguese New Christian with a thriving medical practice in Goa, and Gabriel Dellon, a French merchant and...

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Main Author: Bindu Malieckal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Donner Institute 2015-04-01
Series:Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67451