The relic state : St. Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India

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The relic state : St. Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India

Pamila Gupta

(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)

Manchester University Press , Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan , Distributed in Canada exclusively by UBC Press, 2014

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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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1. Introduction: The relic state 2. Incorruption (1554) 3. Canonisation (1624) 4. Secularisation (1782) 5. Resurrection (1859) 6. Commemoration (1952) 7. Conclusion: Xavier and the Portuguese colonial legacy Bibliography Index -- .

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    Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press

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