HINDU-CATHOLIC ENGAGEMENTS IN GOA RELIGION,COLONIALISM AND MODERNITY

Goa is a special place. A narrow stretch of lowlands along the Arabian Sea on india’s western coast, it is the smallest of india’s states. Linguistically, it belongs to the Konkan, the Konkani-speaking region that reaches from Thane in Maharashtra in the north to Mangalore in Karnataka in the south. To the east, Goa and the Konkan are separated from the deccan highlands of Karnataka by the mountain ridge of the western Ghats. Goa’s population comprises little more than 1.2 million people today of whom 65 percent are Hindus, 27 percent Christians, and 6 percent Muslims (Government of India 2011)....

Goa is a special place. A narrow stretch of lowlands along the Arabian Sea on india’s western coast, it is the smallest of india’s states. Linguistically, it belongs to the Konkan, the Konkani-speaking region that reaches from Thane in Maharashtra in the north to Mangalore in Karnataka in the south. To the east, Goa and the Konkan are separated from the deccan highlands of Karnataka by the mountain ridge of the western Ghats. Goa’s population comprises little more than 1.2 million people today of whom 65 percent are Hindus, 27 percent Christians, and 6 percent Muslims (Government of India 2011)....

Goa is a special place. A narrow stretch of lowlands along the Arabian Sea on india’s western coast, it is the smallest of india’s states. Linguistically, it belongs to the Konkan, the Konkani-speaking region that reaches from Thane in Maharashtra in the north to Mangalore in Karnataka in the south. To the east, Goa and the Konkan are separated from the deccan highlands of Karnataka by the mountain ridge of the western Ghats. Goa’s population comprises little more than 1.2 million people today of whom 65 percent are Hindus, 27 percent Christians, and 6 percent Muslims (Government of India 2011)....

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