Chapter 12h – India – Christian Portuguese Invasion
Introduction
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When I write my chapters on ancient religion
and explain that Europe was really Hindu/Aryan and supply evidence of prayers
and poems in European countries that actually call out India and Hindustan,
Indra and Krishna and also Rama, my White readers either laugh it off or feel uncomfortable
being associated with India and Indians too closely.
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I don’t blame them though. The last 50 years
to the outside world, India looks like a backward, poor, uneducated and
poverty-stricken country. Who wants to be associated with that?
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But what I have uncovered in my overall
research of ancient history is truly amazing!
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The Romans had not only traded with India 26
BC. - 330 CE., but the Romans also had embassies in India and received Indian
ambassadors to Rome during that time. (Emperors Agustus to Nero
to Constantine.)
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Many cities in India from North to South had
Roman Embassies/representatives established for trade and communication. Indo-Roman
relations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Roman_relations
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Seleucus I, the Greek/Hellenistic king, sent Megasthenes (350-290
B.C.) as an ambassador to the court of King Chandragupta Maurya in India.
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The Indo-Greek Maharaja Menander
I converted to Buddhism and abdicated the throne to retire to a life of
meditation. Some of his coins show the Buddhist Dharma Chakra. When he
died, his ashes were distributed among the Buddhist Stupas in different
cities in a similar way to Buddha. https://www.hellenistichistory.com/2022/09/24/the-greek-rajas-of-ancient-india/
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Greek
ambassador Heliodorus became a follower of Krishna/Vishnu. (Around 113
BC.- see Chapter 15m)
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Buddhism spread to Rome and Greece at a
lesser level.
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But this is nothing! Read below for how later
in the 1500’s, the Christians destroyed India!
1st Century AD to 1500 AD
India and China were the largest economies in the world at
this period in time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPWY-CPNAI. India was maybe half the economy of China.
Now, the economy for this time is calculated by population numbers so
India had a large and productive population. And that the population was not
starving but rather they were prosperous.
By the time of the 1500 AD, India and China’s economies (still the
largest in the world) were estimated at $100 Billion each in 2015 US Dollar
value. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPWY-CPNAI
Also, during this time, India had been invaded by the Greeks,
Persian/Iranian and the Turkish empires and then they left or stayed
permanently. But while India was
invaded, these invaders did not steal the riches of India to be taken back
to their countries.
Only the Christian Europeans, pretty much raped India of
everything they could get their hands on! And then forced the Indians to grow
crops that they could sell to their homeland in Europe for pure profit without
consideration for feeding the Indian communities.
India had an open-frontier attitude in welcoming foreigners for 1000’s
of years. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/29/british-empire-india-amartya-sen
1. Jewish immigration into India began right after the
fall of Jerusalem in the first century and continued for many hundreds of
years.
2. Baghdadi Jews, such as the highly successful Sassoons, came in
large numbers even as late as the 18th century.
3. Christians started coming at least from the fourth
century, and possibly much earlier. There are colorful legends about this,
including one that tells us that the first-person St Thomas the Apostle
met after coming to India in the first century was a Jewish girl playing
the flute on the Malabar coast.
4.
The Parsis started arriving from the
early eighth century – as soon as persecution (Islam) began in their Iranian
homeland.
5.
Later in that century, the Armenians
began to leave their footprints from Kerala to Bengal.
6.
Muslim Arab traders had a substantial presence on the west coast of India from
around that time – well before the arrival of Muslim conquerors many centuries
later, through the arid terrain in the north-west of the subcontinent.
7.
Persecuted Bahá’ís from Iran came only
in the 19th century.
Wait till you find out about China in a later chapter.
The Christians invade India
Everyone in Christian
Europe desperately wanted to get a piece of India for themselves. They really did
not want to trade; they wanted to invade to steal!
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They come in as traders at first, then they
establish a trading post, while their teams scope out the land for the strength
of the regional Maharajah.
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Then they build fortresses if they can get
away with it on Indian lands.
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Finally, when they are ready, they impose
their authority over the lands that they want.
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If the Maharajah attacks them, they happily
shoot, kill and destroy at will.
This is what the Christians did to India.
Oh, and don’t
forget, that the Catholic Church then quickly sends out their priests to India
to tell the Indians that they are worshipping the devil and that their
Invader/Murderers’ Christian GOD is the only true GOD! The nerve! The
famous Catholic priest Francis Xavier imposed the murderous Portuguese
Inquisition on Goa India (on 16th May 1546).
!!! Read the
below section very carefully!!!
A forgotten holocaust of
Hindus and Jews - https://www.opindia.com/2020/09/the-goa-inquisition-by-portuguese-forgotten-holocaust-of-hindus-jews/#google_vignette
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The Portuguese ordered all
temples within the colony to be shut; this marked the beginning of the bloody
Goan Inquisition that comprised of gross human right violations and mass
executions of the local Hindu, Jew and Muslim
populations.
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In 1541, idol worship was
forbidden in the Portuguese colony of Goa and over 350 temples were
destroyed by the Portuguese soldiers. The Spanish did the same in the
Americas.
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The Catholic priest Francis
Xavier wrote to King John III of Portugal on 16th May 1546 to impose Inquisition
on Goa in an attempt to ‘discipline’ the residents and make them follow
Catholicism.
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The Jews who fled the Spanish
Inquisition in Spain was now tortured in India instead!!! India was the only
country in the world where Jews were given absolute freedom to
practice their faith, especially under the Hindu kingdoms.
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The Christian missionaries
called the Hindus ‘uncultured’ and ‘savages’, who worshipped
black idols ‘resembling demons’ (“how nice isn’t it?”). An Inquisition
office was thereby set up which aimed to discriminate against Hindus on all
matters possible.
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Hindus were forbidden from
holding any public office, inheriting their father’s property or testifying as
witnesses in courts. If a Hindu child was deemed to be an orphan by the
colonialists, the child was ‘seized’ by the Society of Jesus (founded by the not-so-saintly
Francis Xavier) and made to change his religion.
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In 1567, a law banning
Christians from employing Hindus in the colony was introduced. Similar with the
Spanish in the Americas!
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Those convicted of
following another religion were subjected to heinous punishments, including public
flogging, being ‘put on the
rack’, burnt on stakes and having one’s nails and eyes crushed by
bloodthirsty missionaries. In some cases, entire
villages were burnt with the women and
children taken as slaves. Large wheels were used for torture, with those
convicted of following Hinduism or Judaism being tied to the wheel
and then spun, with almost every bone of
the innocent Hindu or Jew being crushed.
· Hindu children were sometimes taken away from their parents and burnt in front of them, with the parent being tied and forced to witness his child being burnt alive until he accepts to convert to Christianity.
This is exactly what the Spanish did
in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Peru etc.in the 1500’s also! Burning people alive
and feeding babies to the dogs alive while the dying parents watched.
Goa Inquisition (Image credit: Navrang India)
https://ishwarsharan.com/features/the-goa-inquisition-t-r-de-souza/
The Goa Inquisition – T. R. DeSouza
!!! I hope that the famous Catholic Priest Saint Francis Xavier burns in
HELL !!!
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French historian and philosopher Voltaire
wrote, “Goa is sadly famous for its Inquisition, which is contrary to
humanity as much as to commerce. The Portuguese monks deluded us into believing
that the Indian populace was worshipping the Devil, while it is they who
served him.” – https://ishwarsharan.com/features/the-goa-inquisition-t-r-de-souza/
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The Catholic Church proudly reports that Francis
Xavier was instrumental in a mass conversion of 30,000 Paravar fishermen at Cape Comorin in one example. Guess what? Under the threat of death,
they converted! Yes, I agree.
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The Catholic Church still continuously
accepted the 10% offerings to the Christian GOD and blessed the Portuguese for
safe journey back to India to get more stolen product. Hallelujah!
Praise the LORD!
Key Note:
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The very purpose that Christopher Columbus
went searching for new land was to find a new place for the Jews in Spain to
escape the Spanish Inquisition. Columbus was a Jew himself in secret. (See
Chapter 12d)
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But guess what? While trying to escape the
Spanish Inquisition in Spain, Columbus introduced 1,000 times worse condition
to the natives in the Americas. Slavery, Torture, Murder Looting and Death
of every country in Central America to South America. (See Chapter 12d)
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So, say “Thank You” to Columbus!
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I’ll leave North America’s atrocities for
another day.
Spanish Inquisition - Convert or you die!
Such wonderful Christians!
The Portuguese did not really leave Goa region and India till between
1961 to 1978. (460+ years.)
“!!!Good Riddance!!!”
!!! Christianity is Great isn’t it? !!!
!!! I am Disgusted !!!
“History is written by the Winners.
Because the losers are DEAD!”
It wasn’t just
the British who ruled over India, the Portuguese, French, Dutch etc.. all had a
piece of India in this period of time. The British being the biggest destroyer
with the help of the British East India Company and the Dutch East India
Company.
India wasn’t
the only victim of the Christian Invaders, Nepal and Sri Lanka was also invaded
and destroyed by the Christian British.
Below is the list of Christian European countries who came to India.
Most of them really invaded parts of India for different periods of time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_East_India_Company#:~:text=The%20Portuguese%20East%20India%20Company,pressure%20and%20influence%20by%20their
All the Christians wanted was to steal from India!
· Swedish East India Company 1731–1813
· Dutch East India Company 1605–1825
· Danish East India Company 1620–1869
· French East India Company 1668–1954
· Portuguese East India Company 1628–1633
· British India 1600–1947
· British East India Company 1600–1757
· British rule in Portuguese India 1797–1813
Everyone seems to have an “East India” company for the sole
purpose of stealing and destroying India.
These Christians get their blessings from the Catholic Pope or Protestant
Bishops before they set sail for India.
Everyone knew that this was an invasion plan of India since they
already knew all about the wonderful Gold and Silver obtained from the invasion
and theft of the Americas!
They proudly set sail with the Cross on all their masts, golden Cross
around the necks, Cross on their flags etc. The Indians will remember
them as the “Invaders with the Cross”.
Christianity was displayed proudly and daily.
These Christian Invaders being good Christians, will bring 10% of the
loot from India to the church to be blessed by the church in the name of
Jesus. Just like with the loot from Mexico, Columbia, Peru etc. So,
the church knows this is blood-stained stolen property, but the church does not
care! They never cared!
The Portuguese State of India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India#:~:text=Several%20colonies%20were%20also%20acquired,Northern%20Province%20of%20Portuguese%20India.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Portuguese_India.png
Map of Portuguese Invasion throughout India
https://pixers.us/posters/portuguese-ship-of-the-fifteenth-century-60020218
Portuguese Invaders sail proudly with the
blessings from the Church and GOD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozhikode
Vasco da Gama's arrival in Calicut in 1498 ushered in five centuries of Invasion/Rule
of the Portuguese
Empire in India, lasting until 1961.
Vasco da Gama was the first Christian European to reach India by sailing
around the Cape of Good Hope, and arriving at Calicut on May 20, 1498.
These nice Christians supposedly only wanted to trade. Buying spices and
textile from Indian traders.
But this was not true. The Christian Portuguese wanted to
take for free/steal from India it’s products.
Early city of Kozhikode, India in foreign accounts
Indians were good ship builders also. Maybe not as big as the Christian
Europeans but seaworthy to Africa for sure.
Uru, a type of ship that was historically
used for maritime trade, built at Beypore, Kozhikode.
Indians were great commercial ship builders
of their time
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozhikode
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Ibn Battuta (1342–1347), who visited six times, gives the earliest glimpses
of life in the city. He describes Kozhikode as "one of the great
ports of the district of Malabar" where "merchants of all parts of
the world are found here". The greater part of the Muslim merchants of
this place are so wealthy that one of them can purchase the whole
freightage of such vessels put here and fit out others like them".
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Ma Huan (1403), the Chinese sailor part of the Imperial Chinese fleet
under Cheng Ho (Zheng He) lauds the city as a great emporium of trade
frequented by merchants from around the world.
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Abdur Razzak (1442–1443) the ambassador of Persian Emperor Sha-Rohk finds the
city harbor perfectly secured and notices precious articles from several
maritime countries especially from Abyssinia, Zirbad and Zanzibar.
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The Italian Niccolò de' Conti (1445),
perhaps the first Christian traveler who noticed Kozhikode, describes the city
as abounding in pepper, lac, ginger, a larger kind of cinnamon, myrobalans and
zedoary.
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The Russian traveler Athanasius Nikitin
or Afanasy Nikitin (1468–1474) calls 'Calecut' a port for the
whole Indian sea and describes it as having a "big bazaar."
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Other travelers who visited Kozhikode include
the Italian Ludovico di Varthema (1503–1508) and Duarte
Barbosa.
The battle begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_India
By 1504 (in just 6 years of first contact), the Christian Portuguese
attacks the King of Cochin, India. They also partnered with a couple of
nearby Kingdoms to increase their power. The battle was fought on land and sea.
The King of Cochin was a formidable adversary and the Christian
Portuguese after suffering setbacks had to seek a treaty with the King of
Cochin.
But the Christian Portuguese did not stop here, Francisco de Almeida
was appointed Viceroy of India in 1505. They established fortresses in other
regions along the west coast (Malabar coast) of India where the rulers were too
weak to fight the Christian invaders.
Overall, India was the size of Europe.
So, it was very difficult to conquer the entire country in one battle or
just a series of battles.
Unfortunately, India did not really have a central government with a
central military but instead local and state governance. So, the Christian
invaders had plenty of time to pick the weaker regions one-by-one to conquer.
And then with the newly conquered military force, the Christians can now have
the “captured army” to help fight against their own countrymen. How
convenient!!!
Vasco da Gama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India
Vasco da Gama traded at Calicut port. But these Portuguese were
unable to pay the prescribed customs duties and price of his goods in gold.
So, the Calicut officials temporarily detained da Gama's
Portuguese agents as security for payment. This annoyed da Gama, who carried
off a few natives and sixteen fishermen with him by force. So, the
Portuguese kidnapped Indians because they did not want to pay customs duties!
Nevertheless, da Gama's expedition was successful beyond all reasonable expectations, bringing in cargo worth sixty times the cost of the expedition. What this really means is that he pretty much stole from the Indians!
Pedro Álvares Cabral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India
Pedro Álvares Cabral sailed to India, to trade for black pepper and
other spices, negotiating and establishing a factory at Kozhikode, where
he arrived on 13 September 1500. Matters worsened when the Portuguese
factory at Kozhikode was ambushed by the locals, resulting in the deaths
of more than fifty Portuguese. Cabral was outraged by the attack on the factory
and seized ten Arab merchant ships anchored in the harbor, killing about six
hundred of their crew, confiscating their cargo and promptly burning the ships.
Cabral also ordered his ships to bombard Calicut for an entire day in
retaliation for the violation of the agreement. Additionally, Cabral succeeded
in making advantageous treaties with local rulers in Cochin and Cannanore.
Cabral started the return voyage on 16 January 1501 and arrived in Portugal
with only 4 of the 13 ships on 23 June 1501.
Key Note:
There are so much more battles and killing conducted by the Christian
Portuguese, but I have made my point here.
It is interesting how the Christian Portuguese appointed each other as
Viceroy of different Indian cities when they have no business being there!
I also like how the Portuguese pick and choose various cities to build their fortresses when they have no business being there!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India
A Portuguese nobleman riding on a horse and
surrounded by attendants in India, from Jan Huygen van Linschoten's
"Itinerario" (Amsterdam, 1596)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India
Portuguese riding a palanquin
It is nice to see these Christian Portuguese enjoying their lives while
attended to by forced Indian labor?
An important question is ….
What did India do to Europe for the
Christian Europeans to come to India to kill Indians???
!!! Nothing !!!
Discussion
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These Christian Europeans were all blessed by
the Church before they set sail to India.
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They sailed with the Cross on their ships, Cross
on their chains around their necks, Cross on their flags. There is no denying
that they were Christians.
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They primarily sought to fight, kill and take
over each city that was of benefit to them.
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They did not want to pay the required taxes for
their purchases and also eventually fought and killed the local Kings to steal
the goods for practically free.
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They proudly gave 10% of the loot to the
Church and was blessed by the Church in the name of Jesus.
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The Catholic Priest St. Francis Xavier then imposed the Inquisition to forcibly under threat of Death to convert the Indians, Jews
and Muslims to Christianity so that the populace will now obey the
Portuguese and cater to them.
The next Chapter, about the Christian British is even WORSE! The
number of Indians dead, starving and the trillions of dollars stolen from India
is simply despicable.
Stay tuned!
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