US EditionA Centuries Pillar in Goa Is Causing Controversy About Colonial History in India
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A centuries pillar in Goa is causing controversy about colonial history in India
MUMBAI, India – There is a controversy over the 16th-century Pelourinho Novo (“New Pillory”) pillar in Old Goa after the Goa government recently referred to it as “Haath Katro Khambo” (Hand-Cutting Pillar). It was a site where prisoners were punished during Portugal’s rule of the Goa region of India. The European country ruled the area from 1505 until 1961. The move has reignited long-standing disagreements over its history, the available eviden…
The local government led by the BJP has renamed a pillar of the sixteenth century to make it "a symbol of the Hindu victims of the inquisition." The scholar Frazer Andrade: misleading name without documentary historical evidence. Meanwhile, a local nationalist leader in a debate hurled against St. Francis Saverio calling him "a terrorist." ...
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