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The Relic State - St Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India (Hardcover)
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The Relic State - St Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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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. 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. -- .
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